Washington DC, 19/1:President Donald Trump told Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere he no longer felt an “obligation to think purely of peace” after the Norwegian Nobel Committee did not award him the Nobel Peace Prize, as he repeated his demand for control of Greenland in a letter seen by Reuters. The Norwegian prime minister’s…
Spain, 19/1:A high-speed train derailed and smashed into another oncoming train in southern Spain on Sunday, pushing the second train off the tracks in a collision that police sources confirmed to Reuters had killed at least 21 people. The first train was traveling to Madrid from Málaga, on the country’s southern coast, and was privately…
New Delhi, 19/1: Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar has been unable to meet Congress top leader Rahul Gandhi as the latter is busy with other engagements and his appointment with the leader of the Opposition yet to be confirmed The deputy CM is likely to return to Bengaluru on Monday. Shivakumar, who arrived in…
New Delhi, 18/1: President of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan will visit India on Monday to explore new frontiers in further boosting the comprehensive strategic partnership between the two countries. His visit to India comes amid the volatile situation in the Middle-East arising out of a sharp decline in…
New Delhi, 18/1: Rajya Sabha MP and senior lawyer Kapil Sibal on Sunday warned smaller parties against aligning with the BJP saying that the saffron party’s strategy is to join their bandwagon to usurp power and then marginalise them. Sibal said the strategy was successful in Bihar where it first aligned with JD(U) and has…
Karachi, 18/1: Six people, including a firefighter, were killed, and several others remained trapped more than 12 hours later after a massive fire broke out at a huge shopping mall in Pakistan’s Karachi, officials said Sunday. Sindh Inspector General of Police (IG) Javed Alam Odho told the media on site that the fire at the…
Tehran, 18/1:An Iranian official in the region said on Sunday the authorities had verified at least 5,000 people had been killed in protests in Iran, including about 500 security personnel, blaming “terrorists and armed rioters” for killing “innocent Iranian” The official, who declined to be named due to the sensitivity of the issue, also told…
New Delhi, 18/1:The national capital witnessed dense fog on Sunday morning as the minimum temperature was recorded at 5.3 5.3 degrees Celsius, 2.3 notches below the season’s average At 8:30 am the humidity was recorded at 100 per cent. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) placed the city under yellow alert. IMD has given warning of…
Bijepur, 18/1: Two Naxalites were gunned down in an encounter with the security forces in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district on Saturday, police said. The gunfight broke out in the morning hours in the forested hills of the district’s northwest region, where a joint team of security forces was out on an anti-Naxalite operation based on inputs…
Tehran, 18/1:Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Saturday blamed President Donald Trump for weeks of demonstrations that rights groups said have led to more than 3,000 deaths. We consider the US president criminal for the casualties, damages and slander he inflicted on the Iranian nation,” Khamenei said, according to Iranian state media.
