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Pakistani security personnel and organiser hold a student after he hurled a shoe at former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in Lahore. (Photo: AFP)

Clerics attack Nawaz Sharif with shoes in Lahore madrasa

The attackers raised slogans in favour of Mumtaz Qadri, the killer of Punjab Governor Salman Taseer, before fainting as...

12 March 2018 5:20 AM IST

According to sources in the finance department, the GST collection was not expected to be so high and hence it had asked the Centre for a compensation of Rs 6500 crore.

India economy recovering from note ban: IMF

Calling this development a welcome change , Zhang said the growth prospects remain positive.

12 March 2018 4:44 AM IST

The Rohingya believe the government is intentionally eviscerating the remnants of their culture to make it nearly impossible for them to return. (Representational Image)

Depends on Allah: Rohingyas in B'desh camps brace for monsoons with...

Bangladesh is lashed by typhoons, and the Rohingya camps are clustered in a part of the country that records the highest...

11 March 2018 7:13 PM IST

Nigeria Muslims offer Eid al-Fitr prayers in an open ground in Lagos. (Photo: AP)

Punish a Muslim Day: Letters in UK urge hate crimes, physical, arson...

Counter-terrorism police are treating the letters as a possible hate crime.

11 March 2018 6:21 PM IST

Sharif made a brief speech in which he did not mention about the man who threw shoe at him. This hurt the sentiments of millions of Pakistanis including myself, he said. (Photo: File)

Shoe-d away: Extremist student hurls shoe at Nawaz Sharif

Sunday, Mr Sharif was a chief guest at Jamia Naemia seminary, Ghari Shahu Lahore.

11 March 2018 4:14 PM IST

The New York Police Department too now lets Sikhs grow beards and wear turbans. (Reprsentational image)

Compared turban to wearing trainers: Racist UK bar throws Sikh student...

He tried to explain to a bouncer who approached him that the turban protected his hair and was part of his religion.

11 March 2018 3:20 PM IST

Xi, 64, has consolidated power since 2012 when he was appointed to the countrys top office: general secretary of the Communist Party. (Photo: AP)

Xi Jinping secures path to rule indefinitely with historical amendment

The historic constitutional amendment breezed through the rubber-stamp parliament with 2,958 in favour.

11 March 2018 2:18 PM IST

Our new slogan when we start running -- can you believe it, in two years from now -- is going to be: Keep America great, exclamation point, he said. Keep America great!(Photo: AP)

From making America great' to keeping it that way: Trump gears for...

I look forward to 2020 because I want to see how far left the person is going to be that we're going to run against,'...

11 March 2018 1:14 PM IST

At least 20 civilians -- including four children -- were killed in Douma on Saturday, in addition to 17 civilians in other battlefront towns, said the Observatory. (Photo: AFP)

Ghouta sirens distress call as death toll rises to 1000

Shelling and air strikes slammed into Douma on Saturday, trapping residents inside their basements for hours.

11 March 2018 12:35 PM IST

Russian President Vladimir Putin (Photo: AP)

Maybe Jews', but not Kremlin: Vladimir Putin on 2016 US election...

US intel agencies concluded in 2017 that Putin personally directed an effort to influence the 2016 US presidential...

11 March 2018 11:42 AM IST

Chinas image among the wider Muslim community around the world is important to Beijing as it pushes President Xi Jinpings Belt and Road initiative to invest billions of dollars building infrastructure linking Asia, Europe and Africa. (Photo: File)

Remain on high alert: Islamic official warns of creeping Islamisation'...

Islam in China must uphold the successful experience of becoming more Chinese.

10 March 2018 7:00 PM IST

The fortune-teller told the 70-year-old woman in Mianyang in southwestern Sichuan province in March 2017 that she would not live to see 2018. (Photo: Pixabay/ Representational)

Fortune teller's bad luck: Chinese woman survives death prediction,...

A police officer intervened and asked the fortune-teller to apologise to Wang for causing stress.

10 March 2018 6:48 PM IST