Paris, A 23-year-old man from the eastern French city of Strasbourg has been identified as the third gunman involved in the attack on Paris’s Bataclan music hall, police sources said today. Foued Mohamed Aggad had travelled to war-torn Syria with his brother and a group of friends at the endRead More

Washington, The FBI’s wide-ranging terror probe into the grisly mass shooting in California by a Pakistani woman and her husband that claimed 14 lives has expanded to Pakistan and other countries as concerns over radicalisation mount in the US. “Pakistan is one of those countries, there are other countries also involved…,”Read More

Bengaluru, Amid a raging debate over intolerance, Tibetan spiritual head the Dalai Lama today said overall Indians are religiously tolerant, but there are some politicians and some sections of the media who create sensationalism out of “small things”. “Ninety nine per cent of Indians still are religiously tolerant and one perRead More

Washington, President Barack Obama today vowed to “destroy” the Islamic State while reassuring rattled Americans in the aftermath of the California massacre that the US will overcome the “new phase” of terror threat that seeks to “poison the minds” of people here and around the world. In a rare address toRead More

Washington, Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump on Monday called for a ban on Muslims entering the United States in the most dramatic response by a candidate yet to a shooting spree last week by two Muslims who the FBI said were radicalised. Trump’s “statement on preventing Muslim immigration” drew fierce criticismRead More

Multan, The woman who with her husband shot dead 14 people in California last week attended one of Pakistan’s most high-profile religious seminaries for women, a teacher at the madrassa said today. Tashfeen Malik studied at the Al-Huda Institute in Multan, which targets middle-class women seeking to come closer to IslamRead More

Washington, December 7 : Asserting that the US will “destroy” Islamic State, President Barack Obama on Monday sought to reassure terror-struck Americans that the country would overcome a “new phase” of threat but ruled out sending large scale troops on the ground to defeat the terror group. In a rare addressRead More

Beijing, December 7 China’s capital on Monday issued its first ever “red alert” for pollution, as the city government warned that Beijing would be shrouded in heavy smog from Tuesday until Thursday. China’s leadership has vowed to crack down on environmental degradation, including the air pollution that blankets many majorRead More

Washington, December 7 The FBI’s wide-ranging terror probe into the grisly mass shooting in California by a Pakistani woman and her husband that claimed 14 lives has expanded to Pakistan and other countries as concerns over radicalisation mount in the US. “Pakistan is one of those countries, there are otherRead More

Caracas, December 7 Venezuela’s Opposition trounced the ruling Socialists on Sunday to win the legislature for the first time in 16 years and gain a long-sought platform to challenge President Nicolas Maduro’s rule of the OPEC nation. The opposition Democratic Unity coalition won 99 seats to the Socialists’ 46 inRead More