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In an unexpected announcement, Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull today said the government will replace its popular 457 visa that brings temporary foreign workers to the country with a new version that will recruit only the “best and the brightest in the national interest”. The move to abolish the visa, used by over 95,000 temporary […]
Today in Moscow, An explosion 2 train carriages in a metro station at Saint Petersburg 10 people were killed and several others were injured. A huge whole was blasted in the side of one carriage with mangled metal wreckage strewn around the platform. Passengers were seen hammering at the windows of one closed carriage. Authorities […]
US President Donald Trump has nominated Indian-American Ajit Pai to serve another term at the powerful Federal Communications Commission. Pai is the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). He was designated Chairman by President Trump in January 2017. He had previously served as Commissioner at the FCC, appointed by then-President Barack Obama and confirmed […]
Today in a tragedy charter plane with Brazilian soccer team Chapecoense to the biggest game in its history crashed in the Colombian mountains after an electrical fault, killing 75 people on board, authorities said. Colombia’s worst air disaster in two decades killed all but three of players on the team from Brazil’s top soccer league […]
Donald Trump was on the cusp of creating history as he inched closer to clinching the US presidency with a strong showing in battleground states helping him trump Hillary Clinton in the knife-edge race. Major US news networks projected Republican candidate Trump to have won the crucial battleground states of Florida, Ohio and North Carolina. […]
Today BIMSTEC leaders including PM Narendra Modi and premiers of participating countries before the start of the Summit in Goa. All were honoring the memory of one of Asia’s tallest leaders. The BIMSTEC leaders observe a silence for one minute in memory of the late King of Thailand. BIMSTEC leaders were discussing regional and global […]
Today in a deadly train crash in New Jersey, at least 1 person is dead and about 100 are injured after a New Jersey Transit train from New York crashed into Hoboken rail Station.
India’s High Commissioner to UK Navtej Sarna was today appointed as Ambassador to the US, a high-profile posting where he will face the task of engaging with a new administration in Washington following the November 8 Presidential poll. Sarna, an Indian Foreign Service (IFS) officer of the 1980 batch, was serving as Secretary (West) in […]
One of Hollywood’s highest profile marriages is over. Angelina Jolie has filed for divorce from husband Brad Pitt, citing irreconcilable differences. According to the court documents, the pair separated on September 15, two years and one month after they married in August 2014. Jolie is seeking physical custody of their six children and asking the […]
Near Syrian border at least 30 people have been killed in a “barbaric” suicide bomb blast at a wedding in Turkey’s Gaziantep. Death toll in Turkey wedding party attack rises to 50.
