WASHINGTON - The US State Department in its annual report 2018 on religious freedom has noted that religious freedom conditions continued a downward trend in India and the country’s multi-religious society remained threatened by Hindutva forces. The report said various nationalist groups in ...

*LONDON - UK Prime Minister Theresa May faced the No Confidence motion from her own party.* *However May survived a**vote of no-confidence triggered by members of her own party over her handling of Brexit.* May secured 200 votes, with 117 against as the voting by secret ballot started on ...

KABUL - An Afghan National Army helicopter made an emergency landing and caught fire in a village in Faryab province on Wednesday evening, the provincial governor Naqibullah Fayiq said. The incident took place in Sar-e-Hawz village in Pashtun Kot district in Faryab when the helicopter wanted to ...

LONDON - The British pound jumped Wednesday after the BBC reported that a majority of Conservative Party lawmakers were set to back Prime Minister Theresa May in a no-confidence vote. At about 1330 GMT, sterling advanced to $1.2579, having earlier hit a fresh 20-month low at $1.2478. The pound ...

LONDON – Prime Minister Theresa May faced a no-confidence vote on Wednesday after dozens of MPs from her own Conservative Party called for one in the wake of her desperate decision to delay a vote on Brexit she was certain to lose. Graham Brady, the head of the party committee in charge of ...

WASHINGTON - *“Right now, if you google the word ‘idiot’ under images, a picture of Donald Trump comes up. How would that happen?”* link was an interesting way to phrase the question, and Google executive did go into the details of their search ranking algorithm, making it clear that the ...

BAGHDAD: In an air strike conducted by Iraqi war planes, 44 Daesh (ISIS) miltants were killed in Syria, IRNA reported on Wednesday. Iraqi army media center announced that, the F-16 jetfighters taking advantage of exact information about terrorist positions, bombarded two Daesh bases in Suseh ...

MOSCOW: Iran is prepared for promoting parliamentary relations with other countries, said head of the Iranian side of Iran-Russian Parliamentary Friendship Delegation. Addressing International Conference on Role of Parliaments in Contemporary World, Ramazan Ali Sobhanifar added that due to the ...

ANKARA: A senior Iranian commander confirmed that Tehran has recently carried out a ballistic missile test. “We will continue to conduct our missile tests and this latest one was particularly significant,” Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, the commander of Iran’s Islamic ...

New Delhi: The Indian government named an ally of Prime Minister Narendra Modi as new central bank head after his predecessor quit following a row about alleged government interference. Shaktikanta Das, named in a government statement as new Reserve Bank of India governor, is a former senior ...