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January 11, 2017 2:05 AM

US blacklists surviving Beatles of Islamic State

<br/>The United States today blacklisted a surviving British member of the notorious Islamic State kidnapping cell popularly known as "The Beatles" as a global terrorist threat. <br/><br/>The State Department identified 33-year-old British Ghanaian jihadist Alexanda Amon ...

January 11, 2017 1:24 AM

Ambassador to Afghanistan injured in Kandahar bomb attack: UAE

&apos;<br/>The Ambassador of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to Afghanistan and several other Emirati diplomats has been injured in the bomb attack in the southeastern city of Kandahar which also killed at least seven people. <br/><br/>In a statement, the UAE foreign ministry said i...

January 11, 2017 1:20 AM

Arrest warrant issued against Wasim Akram in road rage case

<br/><br/>A Pakistani court has issued an arrest warrant against legendary cricketer Wasim Akram for continuously missing 31 hearings in a road rage case filed by him. <br/><br/>The court has ordered him to appear before it on 17 th of January. Mr Akram, has missed the hearin...

January 11, 2017 1:18 AM

Pakistan: Protests held over disappearance of 4 Human Rights activists

<br/><br/>Human rights activists in Pakistan today rallied to protest the disappearance of four activists over the past one week and asked the government to take measures to locate them. <br/><br/>Leftist liberals accuse that security agencies or militants might be behind the...

January 11, 2017 12:56 AM

New UN chief Guterres calls for whole new approach to prevent war

<br/><br/>New UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres today called for a "whole new approach" to prevent war, in his first address to the Security Council since taking office.<br/><br/>Guterres took over from Ban Ki-moon on January 1 with a promise to shake up the wor...

January 11, 2017 12:50 AM

9 killed in Kandahar blast during UAE envoy's visit

9 killed in Kandahar blast during UAE envoy's visit<br/><br/>At least nine people were killed in an explosion in the governor's compound in Afghanistan's southern Kandahar province today during a visit by the UAE ambassador. <br/><br/>The UAE foreign ministry s...

January 10, 2017 9:17 PM

Pravasi Bharatiya Divas celebrated in Egypt

Vishwa Hindi Divas (World Hindi Day) and Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (Overseas Indian Day) was celebrated in the Egypt's capital Cairo to make the language popular in the country. <br/><br/>The Indian Embassy in Cairo and its cultural wing the Maulana Azad Centre for Indian Culture (MAC...

January 10, 2017 9:05 PM

US: India inventors contribute 658 patents in 2016

Indian inventors contributed 658 patents to help IBM break the US patent record with 8,088 patents in 2016.<br/><br/>IBM's 2016 patent output covers a diverse range of inventions in artificial intelligence and cognitive computing, cognitive health, cloud, cybersecurity and other str...

January 10, 2017 8:39 PM

Pak govt efforts to revive military courts hit snag

The Pakistan government today failed to get the Opposition's support to revive the system of special military courts for trying militants as an all-party meeting to discuss the matter ended inconclusively.<br/><br/>A meeting of joint opposition parties was held with speaker of Natio...

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