Pakistan MQM leader Altaf Hussain released
BBC Online :Altaf Hussain, the exiled leader of Pakistan’s powerful MQM party, has been released on bail by police in London after being arrested on...
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World leaders gather for D-Day tribute
Reuters, France :World leaders and veterans paid tribute on the 70th anniversary of the World War Two D-Day landings to soldiers who fell in the...
Floods displace over 100,000 in Sri Lanka
IANS, Colombo :Floods caused by days of torrential rain have displaced over 100,000 people in Sri Lanka, latest government data showed on Friday.The Disaster Management...
Geo TV channel is ordered off air
Pakistan’s Electronic Media Regularity Authority has suspended the licence of the country’s largest and most influential TV station for 15 days.Since April, the Geo TV...
Separatists in eastern Ukraine attack border post
Reuters, Donetsk :Ukrainian forces fended off an attack by pro-Russian separatists on a border post in the east of the country late on Thursday in...
Kejriwal faces defamation charge
PTI, New Delhi :Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Arvind Kejriwal was on Friday put on trial by a Delhi court on charges of defamation on...
Stop touching feet, be regular in Parliament: Modi
PTI, New Delhi :Sounding a word of caution to ruling BJP MPs, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday asked them to remain connected to the...
Sumitra Mahajan made LS Speaker
PTI, New Delhi :Eight-term member Sumitra Mahajan was on Friday unanimously elected Speaker of the 16th Lok Sabha, becoming the second woman presiding officer of...
Putin dominates G7 summit in absentia
AP, Brussels :Russian President Vladimir Putin was kept out of Wednesday’s summit of world leaders but dominated the meeting as US President Barack Obama and...
Fighting rages in eastern Ukraine, residents flee
Reuters, Ukraine :Ukrainian government forces battled separatists with artillery and automatic weapons on Wednesday in a second day of fighting in and around Slaviansk, forcing...
Modi, Advani, Sonia among first to take oath as MPs of 16th LS
IANS, New Delhi :Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his cabinet colleagues on Thursday took oath as members of the newly-elected 16th Lok Sabha.Senior Congress leader...