Washington, March 28 The White House was briefly lockdown on Tuesday morning after a male suspect approached US Secret Service agents with a “suspicious package” and made suspicious comments, officials said. The man had approached uniformed officers at around 10.15 am when both President Donald Trump and Vice-President Mike PenceRead More

Lahore, March 28 A Pakistani court has asked the Punjab government to explain under what authority it has detained Jamaat-ud-Dawah chief Hafiz Saeed “without a trial”. A Lahore High Court’s two-judge Bench headed by Justice Syed Kazim Raza Shamsi was hearing a petition of Saeed, his aides – Prof MalikRead More

SYDNEY, March 28 Howling winds, heavy rain and huge seas pounded Australia’s northeast on Tuesday, damaging homes, wrecking jetties and cutting power to thousands of people as Tropical Cyclone Debbie tore through the far north of Queensland. Wind gusts stronger than 260 km per hour (160 mph) were recorded atRead More

Stockholm, March 28 The Swedish Academy has warned that Nobel literature laureate Bob Dylan has until June 10 to deliver the traditional Nobel lecture, in order to receive the eight million kronor (USD 910,000) that comes with the prize. The lecture, which can take nearly any form including a shortRead More

BERLIN, March 28 Germany will not tolerate foreign espionage on its territory, the interior minister said on Tuesday, in a robust response to media reports that Turkish secret services were spying on supporters of the Gulen movement in Germany. Fethullah Gulen, a US-based Muslim cleric with a large following inRead More

London, March 27 A motion has been tabled in the UK parliament condemning Pakistan’s “arbitrary” move to declare the strategic Gilgit-Baltistan region, bordering disputed PoK, as its fifth province. Bob Blackman, a Conservative Party MP, who regularly speaks out in support of the rights of Kashmiri Hindus in the HouseRead More

Berlin, March 27 A Pakistani man was convicted in Germany on Monday of spying for Iran to search out potential attack targets for the Revolutionary Guards. The defendant, 31-year-old Mustufa Haidar Syed-Naqfi, was sentenced to four years and three months in prison “for working for a foreign intelligence service”, aRead More

Moscow, March 27 Russia’s main Opposition leader, Alexei Navalny, was arrested at an anti-corruption protest he organised here on Sunday. Thousands of people joined rallies nationwide, calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev over corruption allegations, BBC reported. At least 500 other protesters were detained in the capitalRead More

Islamabad, March 27 Pakistan has allowed a 29-year-old Jewish activist to change his religion from Islam to Judaism, an unusual move by authorities in the Muslim-majority country. In normal circumstances, it would have been a normal practice to let Fishel Benkhald get religion of his choice in the column ofRead More

Dhaka, March 27 Bangladesh army said on Monday that it had neutralised all four Islamist militants, including a woman, who were holed up in a building after four days of siege in the northeastern Sylhet city, even as the ‘Operation Twilight’ continued to secure the site. “We’ve found four bodiesRead More