London, March 27 Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II has advertised for a new furnishings manager who will be responsible for around 1,000 rooms at her various palaces. The UK’s Royal Household is looking for a “Curtain Maker and Soft Furnishing Upholsterer” to take care of furnishings at Buckingham Palace and StRead More

London, March 27 One more person has been arrested in the UK on suspicion of “preparation of terrorist acts” in connection with an attack on the British Parliament by a ‘lone wolf’ last week. “A 30-year-old man was arrested on Sunday at an address in Birmingham on suspicion of preparationRead More

WASHINGTON, March 27 US President Donald Trump on Monday is set to announce his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, will take on a White House role to oversee a broad effort to overhaul the federal government, The Washington Post reported, citing statements from both men. Kushner, who is married to Trump’s daughterRead More

Washington, March 25 President Donald Trump has expressed disappointment as he faced a severe political defeat after Republicans abandoned their effort to repeal and replace the Obamacare policy with a new health care Bill, due to lack of votes in the US House of Representatives. Trump’s disappointment came after HouseRead More

Beijing, March 25 A Beijing court has overturned a ruling that Apple’s iPhone 6 violated a Chinese manufacturer’s patent which saw the US tech giant ordered to cease selling the smartphone in China. In May last year the Beijing intellectual property bureau had ruled that Apple violated design patents ofRead More

Beirut, March 25 At least 16 civilians were killed and dozens wounded this in an air strike on a rebel-held area outside Syria’s capital Damascus, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said. It said it was not immediately clear who was responsible for the strike on the town HammuriyehRead More

Islamabad, March 25 The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) has issued a show-cause notice to ARY News channel over comments on a statement by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. The regulator on Friday took exception to remarks made by Shahid Latif, a guest on an ARY News programme, that termedRead More

Jindo (South Korea), March 25 South Korea’s sunken Sewol ferry has been successfully hauled onto a giant heavy lifting ship, officials said today, a step towards returning the vessel to port. Nearly three years after it went down killing more than 300 people, the wreck was safely placed onto aRead More

New York, March 25 A Sikh-American girl was harassed on a subway train here when a white man, mistaking her to be from the Middle East, allegedly shouted “go back to Lebanon” and “you don’t belong in this country,” the latest in a series of hate crimes against people ofRead More

Washington, March 25 The Trump Administration is seeking to deepen its counter-terrorism cooperation with India and expand it further, sources here said after National Security Adviser Ajit K Doval’s high profile meetings with top US officials. Doval during his US visit this week met US Defence Secretary, Gen (retired) JamesRead More