Category: World

The Pakistani fan of Virat Kohli, who was arrested for hoisting the India flag, was granted bail by a court. The Additional District and Sessions court in Okara admitted the bail plea of Umer Daraz, who has been behind the bars for over a month, Dawn reported. Daraz was arrested on January 25 for hoisting an Indian flag on the rooftop […]

China will establish $15.3 billion fund to assist workers who lost their jobs due to massive industrial restructuring undertaken by the government in almost all sectors, following the economic slowdown, a minister said today. Allocated over two years, the 100 billion Yuan (USD 15.3 billion) fund will cover training and job seeking, said Feng Fei, vice minister of industry and […]

Pakistani authorities have lodged an FIR into the Pathankot terror attack case, officials said on Friday, after weeks of probe into the assault that led to the postponement of Indo-Pak Foreign Secretary-level talks. The FIR was registered at Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) centre at Gujranwala in Punjab province on Thursday. According to a CTD official, the FIR was needed to start […]

A 13-year-old Indian-origin boy has been honoured in the US for his efforts to improve access to education for underprivileged students in America and around the world through his charity organisation. Ishaan Patel, founder and CEO of Planting Pencils was recently honoured by the Milan Cultural Organisation during the Republic Day celebration in the Legislative Office building in downtown Hartford, […]

Three Indian-American legal luminaries may be among the possible candidates whom US President Barack Obama could nominate as a Supreme Court judge following the sudden death of conservative icon Justice Antonin Scalia. Within hours of the death of Mr Scalia at a ranch in Texas, the name of Chandigarh-born Sri Srinivasan popped up as the top contender to the post. […]