Geneva, August 10 : The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said that 50 teenageAfrican migrants were “deliberately drowned” by their smuggler off the coast of Yemen. The UN agency said that some 120 Somali and Ethiopian migrants, who were 16 years old on average, were forced into the sea on Wednesday as they approached the coast […]
Seoul/Guam, August 10 : North Korea dismissed on Thursday warnings by US President Donald Trump that it would face “fire and fury” if it threatened the United States as a “load of nonsense”, and outlined detailed plans for a missile strike near the Pacific territory of Guam. North Korea’s apparently rapid progress in developing nuclear […]
Washington, August 10 : President Donald Trump has continued with the India policy of his predecessor Barack Obama and the support for the Indo-US relationship transcends political parties here, an influential Indian-American lawmaker has said. “I think that his India policy so far has been somewhat of a continuation of what President Barack Obama did […]
New Delhi : Indian cricketer Abhinav Mukund has slammed racial abuse on social media, saying he has himself been at the receiving end of insults and ridicule for his skin tone. In a statement posted on his Twitter page, Mukund, who featured in the first Test against Sri Lanka in the ongoing series and scored 81 […]
Chandigarh : Haryana BJP chief Subhash Barala’s son Vikas Barala and his friend Ashish Kumar will be produced before a Chandigarh court on Thursday. The two were arrested on Wednesday for an abduction bid, four days after they were accused of stalking 29-year-old Varnika Kundu, daughter of an IAS officer. Vikas Barala, 23, and his […]