Kejriwal announces indefinite hunger strike over ‘statehood for Delhi’ demand from March 1
New Delhi: Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday announced that he will launch an indefinite hunger strike from March 1 to press the demand for full statehood to Delhi. Addressing the budget session of Delhi Assembly, Kejriwal stepped up his attack on the Centre and said the Delhi government is unable to perform its duties […]
UK drops corruption probe against Rolls-Royce in India, other countries
London: The UK has announced the closure of its probe into corruption charges against senior executives of British aerospace and defence major Rolls-Royce in India and six other countries. Serious Fraud Office (SFO), the UK government’s investigation authority, which also closed a long-running probe against pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline, said in a statement on Friday that […]
Xi writes letter to Trump, hopes for mutually beneficial bilateral trade pact
Washington: Chinese President Xi Jinping has sent a letter to his American counterpart Donald Trump, hoping that the world’s two largest economies would reach a mutually beneficial trade agreement. The letter was read out by a member of the Chinese delegation before Trump in his Oval Office of the White House in front of a […]
Withdrawal of US troops from S Korea not under consideration, says Trump ahead of meeting with Kim
Washington: US President Donald Trump has ruled out the possibility of withdrawing American troops from South Korea as part of any deal with North Korea. President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un are scheduled to meet in Hanoi, Vietnam on February 27 and 28. Previously, they met in June last year in Singapore for […]
Pak govt takes control of JeM headquarters
Lahore: Pakistan government on Friday took over the administrative control of the headquarters of Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM), the militant outfit which claimed responsibility for the deadly Pulwama suicide attack that killed 40 CRPF personnel in Jammu and Kashmir. The move came a day after the powerful UN Security Council comprising 15 nations, including Pakistan’s key ally […]
Former ISI Chief’s pension, service benefits stopped
Pak Army accused him of violating military code of conduct
Islamabad: The Pakistan Army Friday held spy agency ISI’s former chief Lt Gen (retd) Asad Durrani guilty of violating military code of conduct by co-authoring a controversial book with India’s former intelligence head and punished him by stopping his pension and other benefits. Durrani, who headed the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency from August 1990 till […]