New Delhi [India] : The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) late on Saturday held a meeting, presided over by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and party president Amit Shah, to shortlist candidates for the ensuing Lok Sabha elections. The meeting of the BJP Central Election Committee (CEC) at the...
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JAKARTA : More than 42 people were killed and dozens of others went missing as flash floods hit Indonesia’s easternmost Papua province Saturday night, a local disaster agency official said on Sunday. Torrential rains had triggered the natural disaster in several villages in Jayapura...
HARARE : At least 31 people have been killed and dozens are missing as tropical cyclone Idai hit eastern parts of Zimbabwe after lashing neighbouring Mozambique, the government said on Saturday. Most of the deaths were in Chimanimani town, Zimbabwe’s information ministry announced on...
Kathmandu : The government has been scrutinizing the activities of Biplab-led Communist Party of Nepal. The Home Ministry, following the March 12 Cabinet decision with the announcement of Biplab-led group as a criminal and violent gang and against the existing law, has started carrying out...
Biratnagar : Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has said the Council of Ministers would be given full shape in right time. Talking briefly to media persons at Biratnagar airport today, PM Oli made it clear that Cabinet was not being reshuffled but getting full shape. Also the Chairperson of Nepal...
CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand : A 28-year-old Australian man charged with murder appeared in the Christchurch District Court on Saturday morning following Friday’s terror attacks on two mosques in the city. The attacks in two mosques in central Christchurch killed at least 49 people and injured...
WASHINGTON : Unbowed by a congressional rebuke, President Donald Trump issued the first veto of his presidency on Friday in a demonstration that he is not through fighting for his signature campaign promise, which stands largely unfulfilled 18 months before voters decide whether to grant him...
New Delhi [India] : Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday launched the BJP’s ‘Main Bhi Chowkidaar’ poll campaign. Kick-starting the campaign, Prime Minister Moditweeted a video showing how all Indians are chowkidars. “Your Chowkidar is standing firm & serving the...
WASHINGTON : Chinese bombers. Chinese hypersonic missiles. Chinese cyberattacks. Chinese anti-satellite weapons. To a remarkable degree, the 2020 Pentagon budget proposal is shaped by national security threats that Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan has summarized in three words:...
WASHINGTON : President Donald Trump’s trade battles cost the U.S. economy $7.8 billion in lost gross domestic product in 2018, a study by a team of economists at leading American universities published this week showed. Authors of the paper said they analyzed the short-run impact of Trump’s...
