Death toll in Syria air strike nearing 100: activists
The death toll from a Syrian government air strike northeast of Damascus neared 100, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported on Monday, making it one of the single bloodiest attacks of the four-year-long war. The Observatory said 96 people were killed in Sunday’s attack, which hit a... read more »
Wreckage of Indonesian plane found
The wreckage of an Indonesian passenger airliner, carrying 54 people and reported missing earlier in the day, has been found in the remote western Papua region, authorities said on Sunday adding that the fate of those on board was not immediately known. Indonesia’s Transport Minister said the... read more »
Sri Lanka votes as Rajapaksa eyes comeback
Sri Lankans began voting on Monday in parliamentary polls with former strongman Mahinda Rajapaksa eyeing a political comeback as prime minister months after being toppled as president by Maithripala Sirisena. Mr. Sirisena has vowed not to make Mr. Rajapaksa premier even if his United People’s... read more »
Death toll in Pakistan’s Attock suicide attack rises to 20
The death toll in a brazen suicide attack that killed Pakistan’s Punjab province Home Minister at his ancestral home in Attock district on Monday rose to 20. Home Minister Shuja Khanzada, 71, and a DSP were among 20 people killed when two suicide bombers attacked his political office on Sunday in... read more »
Pak PM Sharif postpones Karachi visit
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has reportedly postponed his visit to Karachi, where he was expected to take stock of the law and order situation and frequent power outages in... read more »
Saeed Ajmal says ICC clean bowled ‘mystery spinners’
Out-of-favour Pakistan off-spinner Saeed Ajmal believes that the International Cricket Council (ICC) has brought an end to mystery spinners and their varieties, which left many batsmen... read more »
Gatlin cruises to 200m win at US championships
Justin Gatlin continued his blistering pace of the season as he became the fifth-fastest 200m sprinter in history by winning the final at the American Athletics Championships. The American... read more »
Ravi Shastri to not travel with Team India for Zimbabwe tour?
Shastri is expected to be back with Team India for the remainder of the season. However, BCCI had been informed of this decision by Shastri before the team left for Bangladesh. Since senior... read more »
People running the show shouldn’t write history books: APJ ...
The controversy over rewriting of history textbooks notwithstanding, former President APJ Abdul Kalam says fair research is needed in this regard and any such rework attempt should not be made by... read more »
