Obama phones Pakistan PM after announcing India trip
WASHINGTON: Hours after the White House publicly confirmed that President Obama will be the chief guest at India’s Republic Day, the US president phoned Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to tell him that Washington values its ties with Islamabad. The mollifying phone call made from... read more »
Jerusalem mayor: We cannot discriminate against Arabs
Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat spoke out strongly in an interview with Army Radio on Friday against the actions of Ashkelon Mayor Itamar Shimoni, who stopped the city’s employment of Arab workers doing renovation to bomb shelters in local daycare centers. Shimoni made the decision in the wake of... read more »
Maharashtra has to be biggest contributor to Make in India, says Fadnavis
Maharashtra has to be the biggest contributor if Make in India is to succeed, the state’s chief minister Devendra Fadnavis said at the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit on Saturday. “I represent a state which has always held the key to India’s makeover. It contributes most to GDP of India,... read more »
Narendra Modi’s diplomatic coup: Barack Obama to be Republic Day parade chi...
NEW DELHI/WASHINGTON: PM Narendra Modi pulled off yet another diplomatic coup on Friday – perhaps his biggest one – when President Barack Obama accepted his invite to visit India as chief guest of the Republic Day parade next year. Modi broke the news himself when he tweeted on Friday... read more »
Delhi HC asks Om Prakash Chautala to surrender on Saturday
New Delhi: INLD chief and former Haryana Chief Minster Om Prakash Chautala was on Friday ordered by the Delhi High Court to surrender on Saturday in Tihar jail for misusing bail conditions... read more »
7 killed in stampede at Imran Khan’s rally in Pak
At least seven people were killed and 40 others wounded in a stampede following a political rally by opposition politician Imran Khan in central Pakistan on Friday, officials said. The... read more »
Landslide kills 19 workers in China
At least 19 people were killed and two others injured when a landslide struck a highway construction site in China’s Shaanxi Province. Rescuers said the landslide engulfed the eight... read more »
After Satya Nadella’s gaffe, Microsoft board to look at gender pay gap and male cult...
A well-known picture in tech circles, taken in 1978, shows the first 11 employees at Microsoft. Two are women. One of them left two years later after a pay dispute. Almost four decades... read more »
Border tension: Onus on Pakistan to de-escalate, India says
NEW DELHI: As stray incidents of firing continued to be reported from the international border in J&K, India further hardened its position saying the onus for de-escalation is on Pakistan. After... read more »
