Monday, 4 April 2016

Voting begins for the first phase of West Bengal and Assam assembly elections

GUWAHATI/KOLKATA: The first phase of crucial assembly polls in West Bengal and Assam has begun Monday with the Trinamool Congress of Mamata Banerjee facing a tough fight from the Left-Congress combine and Tarun Gogoi of the Congress striving ...  Read More

How Two Brussels Neighborhoods Became 'A Breeding Ground' For Terror

Molenbeek and Schaerbeek have been tied to Islamist extremism, most recently after the bombings in Brussels. Molenbeek and Schaerbeek have been tied to Islamist extremism, most recently after the bombings in Brussels and the Paris attacks in November.  Read More

South Africa parliament to consider Jacob Zuma impeachment

The South African parliament will next week discuss an opposition motion to impeach President Jacob Zuma after country's highest court ruled that he flouted the constitution, an official said on Sunday.  Read More

VP Hamid Ansari has reduced himself to a spokesman for Muslims; that's not his job

The Vice-President of India, like the President or the Prime Minister, represents the whole country - all the people, and not just some of them, or the community he or she comes from. Read more

Himachal CM Virbhadra Singh to be defended by Kapil Sibal and Abhishek Singhvi in court cases

NEW DELHI: Notwithstanding the Congress high command and party MLAs extending their solidarity to Himachal Pradesh CM Virbhadra Singh at a meeting in Delhi on Saturday, the party leadership is on tenterhooks as Singh is facing key legal tests in Delhi ... Read More

John Kasich: What's the case for staying in Republican race?

John Kasich hanging around? In fact, many Republicans are quietly hoping Kasich will drop out, fearing he will dilute the anti-Trump vote, starting Tuesday in Wisconsin, and enable the real-estate developer to win despite the kinds of difficulties he ...  Read More

Putin, Nawaz Sharif among world leaders exposed in tax haven dump

Close aides of Russian president Vladimir Putin and Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif are among those whose assets feature in a vast expose of tax havens.  Read More

WWE WrestleMania 32: Brock Lesnar Vs. Dean Ambrose (No Holds Barred Street Fight)

We go to the ring and out comes Brock Lesnar with Paul Heyman to a big pop. Eden goes to announce the match but Heyman cuts her off and does his big introduction, saying this is the moment we've all been waiting for.  Read More

Delhi government to give Rs 1 crore to kin of slain NIA officer

NEW DELHI, Apr 3 (PTI) Delhi government today announced Rs one crore compensation to the kin of an NIA officer who was shot dead by two unidentified motorcycle-borne assailants who also wounded his wife when they were returning home from a ... Read More

GST to infra, Saudi business panel has questions for PM Narendra Modi

Inviting Saudi businesses to come and invest in India's defence, energy, railway, health and agriculture sectors, Modi also said that a common indirect taxation regime in form of GST was 'about to happen'.  Read More

D-day for Gogoi, Sonowal in phase 1 of Assam polls

NEW DELHI: Ahead of the first stage of polling in Assam and West Bengal, the electoral races seem to have tightened with BJP closing in on Congress in the north-eastern state and Trinamool Congress facing a stronger than expected challenge from the ...  Read More

West Indies prevails in a pulsating finale at Eden

A Sunday night here at the Eden Gardens turned surreal for the 49,818 fans, who embraced Darren Sammy's men as their own and found ecstasy in a last over of pulsating thrills. Read More

Crow Tribe elder, historian Joe Medicine Crow dead at 102

FILE - In this Aug. 12, 2009 file photo, President Barack Obama leans away to avoid the headdress as he presents the 2009 Presidential Medal of Freedom to Joseph Medicine Crow during ceremonies at the White House in Washington.  Read More

Syrian troops drive Islamic State out of another town

The Syrian Army claimed victory over the Islamic State in the town of Qaryatain on Sunday, one week after driving the militant group out of historic Palmyra.  Read More

Vanuatu hit with large earthquake, tsunami scare

WELLINGTON, New Zealand - A strong earthquake hit off of the South Pacific nation of Vanuatu on Sunday, but authorities said any threat of a tsunami had mostly passed, and there were no immediate reports of injuries or damage. Read More