Manama, Jan 8 : Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Monday met Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa and Prince Shaikh Khalid bin Hamad Al Khalifa in Bahrain and also discussed ways to develop sports and cricket ties between the two countries. Gandhi visited Bahrain as a part of his outreach to the Indian diaspora. […]
Category: Asia
500,000-year-old stone tools discovered in Israel
Jerusalem, Jan 8 : Israeli archaeologists have announced the discovery of half-million-year-old stone tools that suggest that the cognitive capabilities of the hominids who crafted them were much more similar to our own than previously thought. Dubbed a kind of stone-age Swiss Army knife by one of the archaeologists working on the site, many of the […]
Islamic State footprint on rise in Pakistan: Report
Islamabad, Jan 8 : The footprint of the militant Islamic State (IS) group is continuously on the rise in Pakistan as over the past year responsibility for as many as six deadliest attacks, in which 153 people were killed, was claimed by the outfit, according to a think-tank report. The security report by Pakistan Institute for […]
South Korea’s top nuke envoy to visit US
Seoul, Jan 8 : South Korea’s top nuclear envoy will visit the US this week to discuss the Korean peninsula’s nuclear issue, an official said on Monday. Lee Do-hoon, special representative for the Korean peninsula peace and security affairs, will visit Washington from Wednesday to Friday, South Korea’s Foreign Ministry was cited as saying by Xinhua […]
China rebuffs US suggestion to convince Pakistan on terror
Beijing, Jan 8 : China on Monday told the US that pointing fingers at Pakistan will not help in fighting terrorism. Rebuffing a US suggestion that China should convince Pakistan to crack down on terror, Beijing said it would not be “conducive” to link terrorism with its “all-weather” Islamabad. “As we stressed many times, Pakistan has […]
24,000 attempts to access pornsites in British Parliament
London, Jan 8 : More than 24,000 attempts were made to access pornographic websites in Britain’s Houses of Parliament since last June’s general election, according to official data. The figure of 24,473 attempts represents about 160 requests per day on average from computers and other devices connected to the parliamentary network between June and October 2017, […]
Seoul, Pyongyang finalise delegations for bilateral meet
Seoul, Jan 7 : North and South Korea have agreed on the composition of the delegations which will participate in the first high-level meeting on Tuesday between the two countries after over two years, the Unification Ministry said here on Sunday. Pyongyang informed Seoul of its five-member delegation earlier in the day, which will be led […]
Pakistan PM calls US financial assistance ‘insignificant’
Islamabad, Jan 6 : Pakistan Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has declared himself mystified by the US threats to cut off funding, saying that Washington’s financial assistance was “very, very insignificant” and that Islamabad was “on the forefront of the war on terror”. In an interview with the Guardian, Abbasi said that reports about the […]
Giant tuna fetches $323,300 in Tokyo market
Tokyo, Jan 6 : A giant tuna was sold on Friday for a whopping 36.45 million yen ($323,300) during this year’s first tuna auction at the world famous Tsukiji fish market here. The bluefin tuna, weighing 405 kg and sourced from Aomori prefecture, was bought at a per kilo price of 90,000 yen by Yukitaka […]
Pakistan accuses US of betrayal after military aid suspension
Islamabad, Jan 5 : Amid opposition calls for retaliation, the Pakistan government on Friday accused the US of betrayal and decried “arbitrary deadlines” and “unilateral pronouncements” after the Donald Trump administration suspended an estimated $1 billion in military assistance. In one of the harshest actions in years between the troubled allies, Washington moved to block the […]