Amid row over Kulbhushan Jadhav, India cancels maritime talks with Pak India has called off maritime security dialogue with Pakistan, scheduled for early next week, amid tensions over death sentence being awarded to Kulbhushan Jadhav on charges of spying. A delegation led by Pakistan’s Maritime Security Agency…
Tamil Nadu: Man’s ear bitten off in fight over water Water crisis has cost a man his ear after it was bitten off by his relative during a bloody fight over drawing additional quota. The incident occurred here on Tuesday when victim Mahendran got into an argument over seeking excess quota of water from the local…
412 suspected Kurdish militants arrested in Turkish security sweep Turkey’s Interior Ministry says police have detained 412 suspected Kurdish militants in a security sweep. The ministry said in a statement Thursday that the suspects were rounded up in police operations in 21 provinces late on Wednesday. In…
Bypoll results: BJP wins 3 Assembly seats, leads in 3; Cong ahead in K’taka Counting of votes began on Thursday for the recently-held bypolls across 10 Assembly constituencies in eight states – Delhi, Karnataka, West Bengal, Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Assam and Madhya Pradesh. Most of the…
Tamil Nadu: Newly married woman murders hubby for not being handsome A newly married woman allegedly murdered her husband by smashing his head with a grinding stone, upset that he was not handsome, police said on Tuesday. The 22-year old woman, who got married about a week ago, attacked her husband fatally last night…
‘Boycott United’: Vietnamese react to United Airlines dragging passenger from plane Outrage spread to Vietnam on Wednesday over United Airlines’ handling of a passenger dragged from his seat after it emerged that the 69-year-old US doctor was Vietnamese by birth. Although United Airlines has no direct flights to…
BJP disowns WB leader who offered Rs 11 lakh reward for beheading Mamata Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday disowned its youth wing leader Yogesh Varshney, who courted controversy by announcing a bounty of Rs 11 lakh for West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s head. Trinamool Congress MPs raised the issue…
Next, EC gears up for fight over Two Leaves symbol With the RK Nagar by polls cancelled, the focus of the two factions of the AIADMK will now shift back to Nirvachan Sadan, the headquarters of the Election Commission, in New Delhi where a bitter battle would be fought to reclaim the “magical” Two Leaves symbol that…
Sweden suspect texted ISIS aide The man suspected of ploughing a truck into a crowd of people in Stockholm sent messages via WhatsApp to an ISIS supporter before and after the attack, boasting that he had “run over ten people,” media reports claimed. Rakhmat Akilov, a failed asylum seeker from Uzbekistan, had been…
Petrol pumps to take Sunday off for Modi’s less fuel consumption vision As many as 25,000 petrol pumps in some parts of country will shut shops starting May 14 every Sunday, according to a report in Business Standard. The call by petrol pumps under the umbrella of Consortium of Indian Petroleum Dealers was seen…