Chicago, February 5 The Chicago Police found the bodies of four men, one woman and a child inside a home on the city’s South Side in what police said was being investigated as an apparent multiple homicide. Interim Chicago Police Superintendent John Escalante said it appeared to be an isolatedRead More

Washington, February 5 The three Mi-35 multi-role helicopters India donated to Afghanistan would help counter the Taliban, which is taking advantage of the reduction in the coalition aircrafts deployed in the war-torn country, a top US commander has said. “The close-air support has been the one resource and the capabilityRead More

WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama has acknowledged that Sikh-Americans are often the target of threats and harassment as they are “perceived to be Muslims”. Obama, while seeking to reassure Muslim-Americans in his historic address to minority community from the mosque in Baltimore, Maryland, termed the recent anti-Muslim rhetoric in theRead More

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Army chief General Raheel Sharif said today that a global response is needed to eliminate terrorism which transcends geographical, religious and racial boundaries. General Sharif was visiting the National Counter Terrorism Training Centre (NCTC) in Pabbi in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and witnessed the Pakistan-Sri Lanka-Maldives trilateral military exercise ‘Eagle Dash-I’.Read More

Washington, February 4 The war of words between the top two Republican and Democratic candidates has intensified ahead of the crucial New Hampshire primary next week, with Donald Trump launching a scathing, personal attack on Iowa Caucus winner Ted Cruz amid allegations rare in US electoral politics. Opening up anRead More

London, February 4 A UN panel has ruled that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been “arbitrarily detained” in the UK, a media report said here today. Britain, however, has made it clear that if Assange leaves the Ecuadorian embassy in London he will be arrested, as the country is underRead More

Washington, February 4 Major US airlines United and Delta and Europe’s Lufthansa and Air France are offering to re-assign certain flight crew concerned about contracting the Zika virus from routes to affected countries. The previously unreported policies by the US airlines show how the mosquito-borne virus, linked to thousands ofRead More

STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN: A UN panel ruling finding that Julian Assange’s confinement in the Ecuadorean embassy in London amounts to illegal detention has no impact on the rape investigation against him in Sweden, the prosecution said on Thursday. “The ruling from the working group has no formal significance for the ongoingRead More

WASHINGTON: India and Mexico are enjoying robust growth even as emerging economies as a whole are facing the harsh reality of slow growth and reversal of capital flows, International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief Christine Lagarde said today. She said slow growth in China, decline in commodity prices and asynchronous monetaryRead More

Madrid, February 4 Passengers on a flight to Riyadh from Madrid were evacuated today after a note that read “11:30 bomb” was found pinned to the inside of the aircraft with a knife, police said. The Saudi Arabian Airlines flight had been due to take off at 0950 GMT butRead More