Pyongyang, December 7 : A senior United Nations official on a rare high-level visit to North Korea held talks with the North’s foreign minister on Thursday. Jeffrey Feltman, the UN undersecretary-general for political affairs, met with Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho on the second full day of the highest-level UN visit to the North since […]
Washington, December 7 : The US House of Representatives has overwhelmingly quelled a congressman’s resolution to impeach President Donald Trump as many Democratic Party leaders questioned its timing and termed the move as “premature”.The lawmakers voted 364 to 58 in rejection of Texas Democratic lawmaker Al Green’s resolution to start impeachment against Trump. The Republican […]
Baghapurana (Moga) : At least 10 Akali workers were injured when supporters of the ruling Congress and the SAD-BJP alliance clashed at Baghapurana in Moga district today. The incident happened on the premises of the Sub-Divisional Magistrate’s office on the last day of filing nomination papers for the local body elections. Alliance leaders alleged that […]
Amritsar : London Mayor Sadiq Khan, who arrived in Amritsar on Tuesday on the last leg of his India visit, paying tributes to Jallianwala Bagh martyrs today, said it was time the British Government apologised for the tragedy that “one must never forget.” Khan’s grandparents were born in India. His parents migrated from Pakistan to the […]
Sandeep Dikshit The written history of the world is largely a history of warfare — John Keegan Humans have always engaged in warfare. The earliest known evidence of intra-state conflict is a 3,500-year-old ivory knife handle that must have figured in one of the battles between the Egyptians and the Mesopotamians. Only 283 years since […]