Washington: A mid-air collision over the Potomac River near Washington's Reagan National Airport has claimed at least 18 lives, as rescue teams continue to search for survivors, according to local media reports. The crash involved American Airlines Flight 5342 and a Black Hawk military helicopter....
Jerusalem: Hamas is set to free three more Israeli hostages as well as five Thai captives Thursday, and Israel is to release another 110 Palestinian prisoners, in the third such exchange since a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip took hold earlier this month. The tenuous...
Washington: A group of Republican Senators has introduced a bill in the US Senate to restrict birthright citizenship to the children of illegal immigrants and non-immigrants on temporary visas. According to Senators Lindsey Graham, Ted Cruz and Katie Britt, who introduced the bill, the exploitation...
New Delhi: NASA Thursday said it is “working expeditiously” along with SpaceX to safely bring back Indian origin astronaut Sunita Williams and astronaut Butch Willmore, currently stuck in the International Space Station (ISS) for 238 days. NASA said this after billionaire and SpaceX founder Elon...
Arlington: A jet carrying 60 passengers and four crew members collided Wednesday with an Army helicopter while landing at Ronald Reagan National Airport near Washington, prompting a large search-and-rescue operation in the nearby Potomac River. There were multiple fatalities, according to a person familiar with...
Washington: US President Donald Trump has signed his first piece of legislation into law that permits the pre-trial detention of illegal migrants accused of theft, burglary or shoplifting. The Laken Riley Act had earlier won bipartisan support in both the House and Senate. It is...
Jerusalem: The Israeli military will remain in the occupied West Bank's Jenin refugee camp after its ongoing raid there concludes, Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said Wednesday. The raid began January 21, two days after a truce took effect between Israel and Hamas in the...
Jeddah: External Affairs Minister (EAM) S Jaishankar Wednesday condoled the tragic loss of nine Indian nationals in a road accident in Saudi Arabia while assuring full support to the concerned families of the victims. "Grieved to learn of this accident and the loss of lives....
London: Two types of extremism with their origins in the Indian subcontinent -- pro-Khalistan extremism and Hindu nationalist extremism -- have been flagged as threats to “understand” in a leaked report into the UK government's ‘Extremism Review'. ‘Extremely Confused: The government's new counter-extremism review revealed',...
Dhaka: Bangladesh interim government's Home Affairs Adviser Lt Gen (Retd) Md Jahangir Alam Chowdhury Wednesday said all “unequal agreements” made with India during the tenure of ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina's Awami League will be discussed. Addressing a press conference on the upcoming border conference...
By Aakar Patel Attacks on Bengali Christians and their churches have begun following the BJP's victory in the state. Last...
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By Dilip Cherian The Centre appears keen to give young IPS officers early exposure to the workings and priorities of...
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The demonstration by scores of policemen and officers outside the Delhi Police headquarters on 2 November to protest against some...
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More than three years after ethnic violence erupted in Manipur, there is no let-up in the spiral of killings, displacement,...
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