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The cable was sent after President Donald Trump signed a revised executive order restricting travel from six Muslim-majority countries. (Photo: AP)

US to review trade pacts, looking at violations, abuses

The study will review deals to ensure they boost US growth and strengthen the country's manufacturing base.

30 April 2017 6:20 AM IST

Warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar delivers a speech in Mihtarlam city in Afghanistan on Saturday. (Photo:AP)

Former Afghan warlord Hekmatyar says he wants peace

During his remarks, Hekmatyar called on all insurgent groups to end the war and join the peace process in Afghanistan.

30 April 2017 6:15 AM IST

Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif (Photo: AP)

Pak Army rejects PM Nawaz Sharif sacking top aide

Report of committee formed to probe information leak' opens military-govt divide.

30 April 2017 6:07 AM IST

European Union and United Kingdom flags fly above the EU Commission offices in London. (Photo: AP)

EU leaders adopt tough talks stance at special Brexit summit

Leaders adopted the guidelines, unchanged, within one minute, an EU source said.

29 April 2017 9:16 PM IST

The IIUI has seven female hostel blocks which provide accommodation for about 2,500 students. (Photo: Representational/Pixabay)

Pakistan: International Islamic University bans 'bed sharing' in...

Hostel boarders have also been told to keep 'proper and reasonable distance' between their beds (at least two feet).

29 April 2017 6:37 PM IST

Islamic State militants attack government positions in the city of Deir Ezzor, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. (Photo: Representational Image/AP)

Turkey steps up attack on Kurdish militants, kills 14 in northern Iraq

President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday that as many as 220 militants had been killed in recent strikes elsewhere in...

29 April 2017 6:11 PM IST

Gilgit-Baltistan senior leader Abdul Hamid Khan. (Photo: Twitter | ANI)

Will vote for India over Pakistan for rule in case of referendum:...

Hamid also said that Pakistan has used the Gilgit province and imposed war upon their people while India never occupied...

29 April 2017 5:45 PM IST

Special Assistant to Prime Minister Tariq Fatemi. (Photo: File)

Pak PM Sharif dismisses trusted aide over leaking information to media

Fatemi, 72, is considered as a trusted aide of the prime minister and his removal is a setback for the government of...

29 April 2017 4:53 PM IST

Patel recorded the womans speech in a video on his mobile phone. (Photo: Pixabay)

Australia: Indian couple racially abused for requesting seat on bench

Patel said that despite his requesting the woman for a seat next to her, she attacked the couple verbally.

29 April 2017 4:14 PM IST

Rainey was found guilty this year of breaking into the now 89-year-old womans apartment on January 1, 2015 and then sexually assaulting her at gunpoint. (Photo: Screengrab)

US man sentenced to 100 years for sexually abusing, robbing 89-yr-old...

The man must serve 85 per cent of the 100-year sentence before he is eligible for parole.

29 April 2017 2:23 PM IST

Benami Transactions (Prohibition) law.

For defrauding bank of USD 484,000, Indian-American sentenced to 20...

Andhavarapu abused a position of trust as a financial controller which facilitated his commission of the crime, US...

29 April 2017 12:22 PM IST

The US National Security Agency said on Friday it had stopped a form of surveillance that allowed it to collect without a warrant the digital communications of Americans who mentioned a foreign intelligence target in their messages. (Photo: PTI/Representational Image)

US: Controversial surveillance technique brought to halt by spy agency

NSA said it would delete 'vast majority' of internet data collected previously 'to further protect the privacy of US...

29 April 2017 11:34 AM IST