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Islamabad: A female Pakistani human rights activist was shot dead in Karachi after hosting a discussion on allegations of torture in Balochistan province, a media report said on today. Sabeen Mahmud, who founded the social forum ‘T2F’, was shot dead on yesterday night, minutes after the end of an interactive discussion, “Unsilencing Balochistan”, which was […]

Mumbai: Actor Anil Kapoor was conferred the Pandit Dinanath Mangeshkar Award on the occasion of the death anniversary of songstress Lata Mangeshkar’s father. The actor was thrilled to bits to receive the “priceless” honour. “I have received national and few international awards in my career so far, but this award is special, in fact, priceless […]

New Delhi: India has the means and the potential to become a global hub for services with competitive pricing, and become a major source of job creation for millions of youth in the country, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said here on Saturday. “This is our area of core strength. We have the abilities to provide […]

New York: More than one-third of babies are tapping on smartphones and tablets even before they learn to walk or talk, a US-based survey shows. By the age of one, one in every seven toddlers is using devices for at least an hour a day, the findings showed. “We did not expect children were using […]

London: Businesses are increasingly using social media — even the illegal ones. Now, even smugglers have taken to the Facebook to woo their clients. The human smugglers are offering desperate migrants passage across the Mediterranean to Europe, according to a Financial Times report. The paper reported the existence of several Facebook pages in Arabic offering […]

Barcelona: Defending champion and top seed Kei Nishikori advanced to the semi-finals of the Barcelona Open with a 6-2, 3-6, 6-1 victory over Spain’s Roberto Bautista Agut, but David Ferrer and Pablo Andujar kept the home country’s hopes alive with quarter-final victories. Like he did in his previous match against Colombia’s Santiago Giraldo, the 25-year-old […]

Washington: Expressing concern over Indian action against the Ford Foundation and Greenpeace India, the US is seeking a clarification from New Delhi for limiting “a necessary and critical debate within Indian society.” “We are aware that the ministry of Home Affairs suspended the registration of Greenpeace India and has placed the Ford Foundation on a […]

New Delhi: like Singapore, Cape Town (South Africa) and Dubai (UAE). The global trail is a ploy to break the monotony and to present a visual delight to the audience, say experts. Dubai’s skyline was used to introduce the show “Saraswatichandra”; “Sasural Simar Ka” went to Hong Kong; The “Diya Aur Baati Hum” team took […]

Kathmandu/New Delhi: A strong earthquake measuring 7.5 on the Richter scale rocked Nepal at 11.41 a.m. India time, with tremors felt from Delhi to Guwahati and Srinagar to Jaipur. Even half an hour later, the aftershocks continued. According to the India Meteorological Department, the depth of earthquake was 10 km and measured 6 on the […]

Rome: A team of researchers found that two teeth from prehistoric sites in northern Italy are the oldest modern human remains overlapping in time with the last Neandertals. The team, composed of Italian and German researchers, analysed two deciduous teeth from the prehistoric sites of Riparo Bombrini in Western Ligurian Alps and Grotta di Fumane […]

New York:Using sitting or carrying devices, such as car seats, swings, or bouncers for making your baby sleep could lead to potential injury or death, say researchers including an Indian-origin doctor. “Many parents use sitting or carrying devices, not realising that there are hazards when they do this,” said Erich Batra, Penn State Milton S. […]

Chandigarh: Students in a number of government schools in Punjab are being forced to drink unsafe water, the Punjab and Haryana High Court was told yesterday. The Punjab government admitted before the Punjab and Haryana High Court that water samples in 2,922 government schools in the State have failed quality tests. Taking cognizance of this […]

Washington: A county in the US state of Indiana has been hit with an HIV outbreak, with 142 people testing positive since late last year, health authorities said. Urgent action is needed to prevent further spread of the virus in Indiana’s Scott county, which has a total population of 4200 people, the US Centre for […]

United Nations:India has asked UN members to drop the annual ritual of passing a resolution on Myanmar’s human rights situation saying that the gesture would encourage the reforms underway there. Speaking at a meeting of the Partnership Group for Peace yesterday, Development and Democracy in Myanmar, Permanent Representative Asoke Kumar Mukerji noted that in Rakhine […]

New Delhi: Though the Congress and some other opposition parties staged a walk-out in the Lok Sabha today after the government rejected their demand to refer the goods and services tax (GST) bill to a standing committee, Bjiu Janata Dal (BJD) members said they did not get enough time to move amendments. Several Congress members, […]