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NEW DELHI: Members of an all-party delegation that went to Kashmir shouldn't have tried to meet Hurriyat members and those who raise slogans like 'Pakistan Zindabad,' said a delegation of Muslim clerics who met Union home minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday, ANI reported. The clerics from the...

AYODHYA: Nearly 24 years after Babri Masjid was demolished, resulting in communal strife across India, a 300-year-old dilapidated mosque would be rebuilt on land belonging to Hanumangarhi temple in Ayodhya. Days after local civic body declared Aalamgiri Masjid `hazardous' and pasted notice...

WASHINGTON: Police and Secret Service personnel had to intervene to physically separate Mohajir protesters and Pakistan military loyalists after a demonstration in front of the White House on Saturday by the Muttahida Quami Movement+(MQM), which mostly represents ethnic Pakistani migrants from...

Geneva, July16 (ANI): Exiled Kashmiri leaders in Geneva and Brussels have criticised Pakistan for not fulfilling its part of the UN resolutions on Kashmir and have said that Islamabad has no right to point fingers at India when it itself remains in violation of the resolutions it so frequently...

A huge earthquake may be building beneath Bangladesh, which can turn urban areas in eastern India into “ruins”, a new study has warned. Scientists said they have new evidence of increasing strain where two tectonic plates underlie the world’s largest river delta. They estimate that at least 140...

BRUSSELS (BELGIUM): European Parliament's Vice-President Ryszard Czarneck, in a scathing editorial titled 'Wake up call to Anti-terrorism Ayatollahs', has said that the recent Ramzan terror attacks in Saudi Arabia have signalled the arrival of theLashkar-e-Taiba's "humanitarian" NGO...

ISLAMABAD: Four out of 10 Pakistanis are living in acute poverty with the population of Balochistan faring the worst among the provinces, according to Pakistan’s first-ever official report on multidimensional poverty. The report unveiled by Planning Minister Ahsan Iqbal on Monday in Islamabad...

MUMBAI: Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operative David Coleman Headley, one of the main conspirators in the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, said on Monday that Pakistani terrorists attempted twice to attack Mumbai before the 26/11 strikes, but didn't succeed. Headley, an American national, was deposing as a...

ISLAMABAD: A team constituted by Pakistan to investigate last month’s deadly attack on an Indian airbase has concluded that there is no substantive evidence to suggest Maulana Masood Azhar, the head of the outlawed Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM) militant group, ordered or masterminded the assault. Six...

NEW DELHI: Over several months, Raja Sivaram, a financial consultant in Kerala, knocked on many doors to get Aadhaar cards for his aged parents, who weren't physically mobile enough to be able to visit an enrolment centre. He tried through various channels to get this done at home but to no...

WASHINGTON: A concerted chorus in Pakistan orchestrated by its jihadi-military establishment that India is behind its homegrown terrorist attacks is being trashed in the western media, with reputed commentators instead calling out Islamabad for its own record of nurturing terrorist groups. The...

SHINGTON: The US expects Pakistan will take actions against the perpetrators of the terror attack on IAF base in Pathankot, a top American official said, hours after Islamabad said it is working on the "leads" provided by India. "The government of Pakistan has spoken very powerfully to this and...

NEW DELHI, INDIA: India notched up its billionth mobile phone subscriber in October, the country's telecoms regulator said, underscoring the importance of its fast-growing mobile market, the world's second-largest after China. Mobile phone subscriptions have boomed in India in recent years as...

NEW DELHI: He runs global internet giant, but the question that stumped Sundar Pichai on his first India visit as Google CEO was whether the popular mobile operating system Android can be named after an Indian dessert! A smiling Pichai replied he will ask his mother for suggestions and Google...

WASHINGTON: During the 1999 Kargil war when its army was suffering heavy casualties at the hands of India, Pakistan was preparing its nuclear weapons for deployment and possible use, the CIA had warned then President Bill Clinton, a former top White House official said on Wednesday. The CIA's...

For the past year, astronaut Scott Kelly has been tweeting breathtaking photos of Earthfrom the International Space Station. On Sunday, he may have tweeted a photo of something far more astounding — a UFO. That, at least, is what conspiracy theorists and alien obsessives would have you...

NEW DELHI: The 2015 Indian Premier League (IPL) contributed Rs 11.5 billion ($182 million) to India's Gross Domestic Product (GDP), the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) said on Friday. The BCCI appointed KPMG Sports Advisory Group to undertake a survey on the economic impact...

UNITED NATIONS: Pakistan failed to win a re-election to the top UN human rights body, garnering just 105 votes in the 193-member General Assembly. The General Assembly on Wednesday elected 18 members of the UN Human Rights Council through a secret ballot. Pakistan's current term at the council...

WASHINGTON: The Obama administration on Wednesday asked Pakistan to put in "additional efforts to target all terrorists in its territory," while declining to even acknowledge Islamabad's complaint about alleged Indian interference in Balochistan and other parts of Pakistan. Washington's public...

A large cluster of objects in space look like something you would "expect an alien civilization to build", astronomers have said. Jason Wright, an astronomer from Penn State University, is set to publish a report on the "bizarre" star system suggesting the objects could be a "swarm of...