Germany’s Left Party Secures First State Governorship
BERLIN—A quarter-of-a-century after the Berlin Wall fell, the successor to East Germany’s ruling party claimed its biggest political prize on Friday when it secured its first state governorship in the reunified country. The election of The Left party’s Bodo Ramelow as premier of Thuringia,... read more »
In Ashton Carter, Nominee for Defense Secretary, a Change in Direction
Ash is rightly regarded as one of our nation’s foremost national security leaders,” Mr. Obama said in announcing Mr. Carter’s nomination in the Roosevelt Room, which was filled with the mandarins of Washington’s foreign policy establishment. “He was at the table in the Situation Room, he... read more »
China ex-security chief’s fall cements Xi’s grip on power
The Chinese Communist Party’s decision to arrest and expel former security chief Zhou Yongkang is a bold step that demonstrates President Xi Jinping’s determination to consolidate power “to a degree unseen” in decades, observers said Saturday. Zhou — who retired from... read more »
LIVE: Army seizes Pak-made arms, food packets from slain terrorists
Taking a jibe at PDP leader Mehbooba Mufti over her statement blaming the media for yesterday’s terror attacks, Bharatiya Janata Party leader Subramanian Swamy today said the high voter turnout in Jammu and Kashmir is a matter for celebration, and added that the PDP chief should now tell the... read more »
How coffee can help keep diabetes at bay: Four cups slashes the risk by 25%, say scientist...
Drinking up to four cups of coffee a day can slash the risk of diabetes by 25 per cent, according to new research. The study has found that drinking decaffeinated filtered coffee at... read more »
AAP made me a sacrificial lamb in Lok Sabha elections: Shazia Ilmi
New Delhi: Controversy has become synonymous with Shazia Ilmi, the former Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader. By her own admission, even when she did something good, it appeared as a controversy... read more »
Two rebels killed in Kashmir gun battle
Two separatist guerrillas were killed and four people, including two soldiers, were injured Friday in a fierce overnight gunfight in south Kashmir’s Kulgam district, police... read more »
Mamata suspends three prison officials after Kunal Ghosh’s attempted suicide
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has suspended three officials of Kolkata’s Presidency jail where Saradha scam accused and former TMC MP Kunal Ghosh attempted... read more »
‘White Widow’, world’s most-wanted woman terrorist, shot de...
Samantha Lewthwaite or the White Widow has reportedly been gunned down in war-torn Ukraine by a Russian marksman. According to The Mirror, Lewthwaite, the world’s most wanted woman terrorist, had... read more »
