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An EgyptAir flight from Paris to Cairo with 69 people on board has vanished from radar, the airline said on its verified Twitter feed today. A tweet on the airline’s official account said flight MS804 left Paris at 23:09 pm local time (0239 IST), “heading to Cairo (and) has disappeared from radar”. Further tweets in […]
A 70-year-old Buddhist monk was hacked to death by unidentified miscreants inside a monastery in southeast Bangladesh, a week after a Muslim Sufi preacher was murdered in a similar attack. Mawng Shoi Wuu, chief of the monastery located in the Chittagong Hill Tracts district of Bandarban’s Naikhyongchari Upazila, was found dead in this morning by […]
Sadiq Khan, the son of a Pakistani bus driver, was today declared the new London mayor after he beat his nearest rival in what is being described as a landslide, marking the return of Labour rule to the UK capital after eight years. The 45-year-old Opposition candidate takes charge as the first Muslim head of […]
Due to wildfires in Canada’s oil-rich province of Alberta led evacuation of about 80,000 people, devastating the remote town at the hub of the country’s oil-sands industry. Some 76,000 people shifted from Fort McMurray, 270 miles north of Alberta’s capital Edmonton, to shelters hundreds of miles north and south of the town.
A 21-year-old Indian-origin student at Rutgers University was killed and his roommate seriously injured in a shooting incident at their apartment near the school’s campus in the US state of New Jersey. Shani Patel, a junior economics major at the university, was shot and killed on Sunday at an off-campus apartment building in Newark, a […]
Duke of Cambridge Prince William today revealed that his wife Kate Middleton wanted to visit India ever since they got married. “It has been a wonderful and colourful evening. It has been a real treat to be welcomed to India in this way… When Catherine and I got married, India was the first place in […]
King Salman Bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud apprised Prime Minister Narendra Modi about Saudi Arabia’s initiative in bringing together 34 Muslim countries to form a powerful Islamic military coalition to combat the scourge of terrorism as the two leaders resolved to enhance counter- terror cooperation. In the talks at the at the Al-Yamamah Palace?here Sunday, the King […]
A massive leak of 11.5 million tax documents has exposed the secret offshore dealings of aides to Russian president Vladimir Putin, world leaders and celebrities including Barcelona forward Lionel Messi. An investigation into the documents by more than 100 media groups, described as one of the largest such probes in history, revealed the hidden offshore […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has left for Saudi Arabia after two days of engagement with world leaders during the Nuclear Security Summit here. “My Washington DC visit was full of fruitful meetings and interactions. We have discussed an issue of great global importance,” Modi said in a tweet before Air India One left Andrews Airforce […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived here today for a hectic day-long visit during which he will attend the India-EU Summit and hold bilateral talks with his Belgian counterpart Charles Michel. Though terror is expected to figure prominently both at the Summit and also in the bilateral talks in the wake of the Brussels suicide attacks […]
