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The storm was powered by a rapid plunge in barometric pressure that some weather forecasters called a bombogenesis, or a bomb cyclone. (Photo: AP)

Bomb cyclone' hits US: 12 dead, 80,000 powerless homes, 5000 flights...

Officials feared fast-dropping temperatures after the storm passed would turn snow on roadways to ice.

5 Jan 2018 12:18 PM IST

Donald Trump. (Photo: AP)

Trump wants to stop publication of incendiary book, threatens ex top...

Sarah Sanders called the book some trash' that came from an author that no one had ever heard of until today.'

5 Jan 2018 11:26 AM IST

United States, State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert (Photo: AP)

Suspension of Pak aid not related to release of Hafiz Saeed: US...

US continues to have conversation with Pak not only on Haqqani network, Taliban but also on India-centric terrorist...

5 Jan 2018 10:39 AM IST

The world waited with bated breath since Monday amid reports of delay in President Donald Trumps statement. (Photo: AFP)

US places Pak on Special Watch List' for religious freedom violations

The Special Watch List is for countries that engage in or tolerate severe violations of religious freedom.

5 Jan 2018 9:44 AM IST

President Donald Trump speaks during an event in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (Photo: AP)

US suspends USD 1 bn security assistance to Pak for supporting terror

US will now not deliver military equipment or transfer security related funds to Pakistan unless required by law.

5 Jan 2018 8:33 AM IST

Within an hour, Megha however fell ill and started bleeding profusely. She was rushed to a hospital where she was declared brought dead. (Representational image)

Girl, fianc© shot dead for chatting before marriage in Pakistan

The girl, identified as Nazeeran, was speaking with her fianc© Shahid in Nayi Wahi village when her uncle spotted them.

5 Jan 2018 8:12 AM IST

Pak Foreign Office spokesman Mohammad Faisal claimed that Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif in a letter to his Indian counterpart Sushma Swaraj had urged for calm and respect for the 2003 ceasefire agreement. (Photo: AFP)

Donald Trump talking in Indian language', says Pakistan

Sources privy to the discussion in the meeting said Asif told lawmakers, Trump was speaking in the language of India.

5 Jan 2018 1:32 AM IST

Palestine ambassador to Pakistan Walid Abu Ali made an appearance at a rally called by 26/11 Mumbai attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed. (Photo: Twitter | @PakMNAOfficial)

JuD to issue notice to Pak defence minister for 'defamation'

JuD criticised the minister for saying that action was taken so that 'terrorists cannot open fire on schoolchildren...

4 Jan 2018 5:52 PM IST

The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) has classified different regions in the country into zones II to V, taking into consideration earthquake records, tectonic activities and damage caused. (Photo: Representational/AP)

4.5 magnitude earthquake recorded in California

The US Geological Survey says the quake's epicenter was 2 miles from Berkeley.

4 Jan 2018 4:45 PM IST

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will hold talks with European Commission head Jean-Claude Juncker and freshly re-elected EU President Donald Tusk in Brussels. (Photo: AP)

Japan's security endangered due to N Korea, situation like WW2: Shinzo...

Abe said Japan would take new steps to strengthen its defence posture but he did not go to specifics.

4 Jan 2018 4:31 PM IST

Netanyahu and Modi waded into the Mediterranean Sea and rode the buggy jeep on the coast during the latters visit to Israel in July 2017. (Photo: Twitter/@PIB_India)

Israeli PM to gift water purifying jeep to 'friend' Modi

Netanyahu is preparing for his 4 day visit to India and the jeep has left for India and 'would be arriving on time' to...

4 Jan 2018 4:10 PM IST

Aggarwal, formerly a doctor at Dayton Childrens Hospital in Ohio, inappropriately touched two teens during medical examination between 2013 and 2015, the government attorney said. (Photo: File/Representational)

Indian doctor jailed on 4 counts of sexual offence, including groping...

Arun Aggarwal, 40, was sentenced on Thursday after pleading guilty to four counts of gross sexual imposition.

4 Jan 2018 3:28 PM IST