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Pramila Jayapal becomes first South Asian American woman to preside over US House

Pramila Jayapal becomes first South Asian American woman to preside...

Beyond proud to serve in the most diverse Congress in our nation's history and to hold the gavel today,' Pramila Jayapal...

5 Jun 2019 4:12 PM IST

Following the deadly crackdown, the military council announced it was abandoning all previous agreements reached with protest leaders on a transition to civilian rule. (Photo: AFP)

Sudan violence: '60 people killed in two-day crackdown,' says doctors'...

The protest movement, in turn, dismissed the generals' promise of elections within nine months instead.

5 Jun 2019 3:10 PM IST

Fiscal deficit for the financial year 2016-17 is budgeted at 3.5 per cent.

South Korea records first current account deficit in 7 years

The world's 11th largest economy posted a current account deficit of $660 million in April, figures from the central...

5 Jun 2019 2:49 PM IST

Cuba and the US restored ties in 2015 and Obama himself visited Havana in a historic presidential trip in March 2016, meeting with then-president Raul Castro. (Photo: ANI)

Trump administration clamps down on US citizens' travel to Cuba

The Cuban government condemned the move, which could cost the country's economy tens of millions of dollars a year in...

5 Jun 2019 2:48 PM IST

Donald and Melania Trump were accompanied by their children- Ivanka, Donald TrumpJr., Tiffany and Eric. Ivanka and Eric were present with their partners Jared Kushner and Lara Trump, respectively. (Photo: ANI)

Donald, Melania Trump host Prince Charles, Camilla at banquet

Duke of Sussex, who became a father in early May, met the Trumps at the Buckingham Palace.

5 Jun 2019 1:59 PM IST

Dr C Christine Fair from the Edmund A Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University examined Pakistans enduring imperative to use cross-border terrorism to try and resolve its basic conundrum; it wants to try and change maps, but it has an army that cannot win wars and has nuclear weapons it cant use. So it has settled upon a strategy of proxy war in Kashmir and elsewhere in India under the safety afforded by its nuclear arsenal, according to Fair. (Photo: ANI)

Cross-border terrorism poses major threat in South Asia: Experts

Taha Siddiqui, Pakistani journalist now living in exile, offered a brief history of Pakistan's obsession with jihadi...

5 Jun 2019 1:17 PM IST

The suspected shooter was known to police having been released from prison in January. (Photo: AP)

Australia: 4 dead, 1 injured after gunman opens fire, suspect...

Witnesses recalled harrowing scenes as a man moved from room to room opening fire at a motel.

5 Jun 2019 1:15 PM IST

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan said India and Pakistan need more steps like this (Kartarpur Corridor) for peace in the South Asian region. (Photo: ANI)

Pak military voluntarily cuts defence budget amid crisis, Imran Khan...

Imran Khan said he was grateful for the move that came 'despite multiple security challenges' that Pakistan faces.

5 Jun 2019 12:48 PM IST

Israel said around 90 rockets were fired from the Palestinian enclave and its air defences intercepted dozens of them. (Photo:AP)

China's tryst with space; launches rocket from ship

The Long March 11 rocket blasted off from a platform on a large semi-submersible barge in the Yellow Sea.

5 Jun 2019 12:21 PM IST

The leader of the gang was Castro, who would generate lists of robbery targets in various states around the country, specifically families of Asian and Indian ancestry, and then assign her accomplices to carry out the armed robberies of these families within their homes, the Department of Justice said. (Representational Image)

Woman gang leader in US found guilty of robbing Indian-American homes

Castro from Houston and her accomplices committed string of home invasions in Georgia, New York, Ohio, Michigan and...

5 Jun 2019 12:17 PM IST

Federal Officers from US Immigration and Customs Enforcements (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) arrested 45 people in the Houston area for violating US immigration laws during a five-day enforcement action. (Photo: File | AFP)

USâ€‰House approves bill to offer citizenship to dreamer' immigrants

The bill, which would grant permanent protection to so-called 'Dreamers' - people brought into US illegally as children...

5 Jun 2019 12:13 PM IST

Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un make history by becoming the first sitting US and North Korean leaders to meet and shake hands. (Photo: AFP)

North Korea urges US to resume talks, warns patience has a limit'

Talks between the two countries hit a roadblock after the second summit in Vietnam ended abruptly with no joint...

5 Jun 2019 12:08 PM IST