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Washington: Achutha Reddy, an Indian psychiatrist who was killed in the US state of Kansas, was mourned by his colleagues, patients and community members who remembered him as a man of compassion. Hailing from Telangana, Reddy, 57, was murdered in his clinic in East Wichita, on Wednesday night. The police has arrested a 21-year-old man […]

Washington: The US Treasury Department announced it has imposed sanctions on 11 entities and individuals for supporting Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) for cyber-attacks against the US. The sanctions announced on Thursday targeted one entity engaging in supporting IRGC ballistic missile program, two Ukraine-based entities supporting designated airlines, and two Iran-based networks responsible for […]

Chennai: Superstar Mahesh Babu’s forthcoming Telugu-Tamil bilingual spy thriller “Spyder” is slated to release in over 800 screens in the US, making it the biggest release in the actor’s career. According to a statement released by Atmus Entertainment, the US distributor of the film, 800 screens have been locked so far for the release of “Spyder”. […]

Washington: Florida Governor Rick Scott on Saturday said 6.5 million people were ordered to evacuate ahead of Irma and that 70,000 people have moved into 385 shelters across the state. “There’s still room for more,” CNN quoted him as saying. He said that more shelters would be opened on Saturday. “Protecting life is our top […]

New Delhi: Over 2.5 lakh people in India have registered to buy Samsung Galaxy Note 8 device which will be launched in the country on September 12 — the same day when Apple would unveil its next big device in the US — which may be iPhone 8. Nearly 1.5 lakh people have registered on […]

Miami: Hurricane Irma, which is expected to cause havoc in southeastern US, has resulted in an evacuation order for over 5 million people throughout Florida, state authorities said. Florida hurricane programme manager, Andrew Sussman said late Friday night that about 5.6 million Floridians have received the evacuation order due to the mortal threat that Irma […]

Washington: US tennis star Serena Williams has given birth to a baby girl at a clinic in Florida, the media reported. Williams, 35, whose partner is Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, 34, was admitted to the St. Mary’s Medical Centre in West Palm Beach on Wednesday, reports the BBC. She gave birth on Friday night. The 23-time […]

New York: The top US official overseeing South Asia diplomacy will visit Islamabad this week following US President Donald Trump’s stern warning to Pakistan against harbouring terrorists. Alice Wells, who is the Acting Assistant Secretary of State in-charge of South and Central Asia, will meet Pakistani officials during her visit, the State Department announced on […]

Berlin: Neo-Nazis marched in the streets of the German capital to mark the 30th anniversary of the death of Rudolf Hess, Adolf Hitler’s deputy, US, the media reported. Helmeted police in riot gear stood guard on Saturday as right-wing demonstrators converged here, a week after a white supremacist rally turned deadly in Charlottesville, reports CNN. […]

Washington: Three people were killed and 19 others injured during a white nationalist rally in the US state of Virginia, turning a day of violent demonstrations into a tragedy, the media reported. One person was killed after a car mowed down a group of protesters in the city of Charlottesville on Saturday while the two […]

Los Angeles: A man fired multiple gunshots outside the Consulate General of China in Los Angeles in the US before shooting himself dead. The shooting was reported on Tuesday around 6 a.m. (local time), Xinhua news agency reported. The man, in his 60s, died in his vehicle at the shooting scene, the City News Service […]

New Delhi: Indian policymakers would do well to target keeping annual retail inflation in the country in the range of 4-5 per cent without aiming to lower this rate significantly, according to an American expert. “India should target inflation at 4-5 per cent,” Kenneth Rogoff, Professor of Economics at Harvard University in the US told BTVi […]

Frankfurt: The German auto manufacturer Audi AG announced that it will recall up to 850,000 cars with six-cylinder and eight-cylinder diesel engines worldwide except the US and Canada, to improve emissions of those cars. As a subsidiary company of Volkswagen Group, the Ingolstadt-based Audi has been involved in diesel emissions scandal and therefore decided to […]

Paris: French President Emmanuel Macron said he hoped his American counterpart Donald Trump would reverse his decision to withdraw the US from the Paris climate accord. “Donald Trump listened to me, he understood the meaning of my approach, including the link between global warming and terrorism. He told me that he would try to find […]

San Francisco: India has overtaken the US to become Facebook’s largest country audience with a total 241 million active users, compared to 240 million in the US. The change at the top of the platform’s country rankings comes just a few days after Facebook announced it has more than two billion monthly users around the […]