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Atwood, Rushdie vie for Britain’s 50th Booker Prize   

LONDON, United Kingdom, Oct 14, 2019 (AFP)  :  Britain’s storied Booker Prize will pit literary giants Margaret Atwood and Salman

Postpaid mobile services to be functional in Valley from today afternoon   

Srinagar (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], Oct 14 :   Postpaid mobile services in the remaining areas of Jammu and Kashmir

BCCI president welcomes Ganguly’s appointment as cricket body chief   

 New Delhi [India], Oct 14 : The acting president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) CK

15 killed in NW Syria attacks: UN

UNITED NATIONS, Aug. 27 (Xinhua) । Fifteen people were killed over attacks in northwestern Syria over the weekend, a UN

At least 95 wounded in Taliban blast in Kabul

KABUL, 7 Aug  (AFP) । Scores of people were wounded when a Taliban car bomb detonated in Kabul on Wednesday,

Monsoon rains wreaking flood havoc across South Asia

NEW DELHI, 16 July  (AFP) ।Torrential monsoon rains swept away homes and triggered landslides across South Asia, affecting millions of

Strong 6.6 quake hits off northwest Australia

SYDNEY, 14 July । A strong 6.6-magnitude earthquake hit westwest Australia Sunday, shaking buildings over a wide area but no

Iran Revolutionary Guards deny impeding British tanker

TEHRAN, 11  July ।Iran’s Revolutionary Guards denied Thursday that they had a British oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz,

U.S. to improve kidney health with more transplants, home dialysis

WASHINGTON, 11 July । US President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday, pledging to reduce the end-stage kidney

Pakistan train crash: Nine killed and 70 injured

Ishlamabad 11 Jul । Yet another fatal train crash within a month has left nine passengers dead and 70 injured

7 children killed by land mine explosion in eastern Syria

DAMASCUS, 10 July ।  State TV reported that at least seven children were killed in a mine mine in the

British inventor Dyson buys Singapore’s ‘priciest penthouse’

SINGAPORE, 10 July । The British billionaire inventor James Dyson has paid $ 54 million for Singapore’s biggest, most expensive

24 killed in Papua New Guinea tribal massacres

PORT MORESBY, 10 July । Twenty-four people have died — including two pregnant women with their unborn children — in

Maduro ‘optimistic’ after opposition talks resume in Barbados

CARACAS, 9 July (AFP)। Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro said Monday he was “optimistic” after dialogue between his government and the

China to strengthen patent protection

BEIJING, 9  July । China investigated 6,529 patent infringement cases in the first half of 2019, according to the National

Sonia, Rahul meet first time Congress MPs at orientation programme

New Delhi [India], 9 July  (ANI)।UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday met newly elected first

Two Reuters reporters freed in Myanmar after more than 500 days in jail

Reuters YAnGOn, 7  May 2019 . Two Reuters journalists jalied in Myanmar after they were convicted of breaking the Official

Pakistanis welcome Malala home, but visit shrouded in security

Pakistan, 30 march (APF) । Malala Yousafzai’s whereabouts in Pakistan were being kept a tightly-guarded secret Friday, one day after

Russia to expel 60 U.S. diplomats, close U.S. consulate in St. Petersburg

MOSCOW, March 29 (Xinhua) । Russia will expel 60 U.S. diplomats and shut the U.S. consulate general in St. Petersburg