ISIS claims Kuwait mosque bombing, 13 dead
KUWAIT CITY: The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing that ripped through a Shia mosque in Kuwait on Friday that medics say killed at least 13 people. The IS-affiliated group in Saudi Arabia, calling itself Najd Province, said militant Abu Suleiman al-Muwahhid carried out the attack on the mosque, which it claimed was spreading […]
Mumbai Beaten by Rain, Advised to Stay Home Tomorrow Too
MUMBAI: Mumbai has asked its citizens to stay at home tomorrow as well after being battered by 10-days’ worth of rain since last night, which left large parts of the city flooded and affected trains, buses and flights today. Here are 10 developments in the story: ‘We have advised people not to go out and remain […]
Nepal Reopens 6 Heritage Sites for Public After Deadly Earthquakes
BHAKTAPUR: Nepal today reopened six heritage sites, including the famed Pashupatinath temple, for the public in a bid to woo tourists back, nearly two months after deadly earthquakes severely damaged some of the country’s historic cultural sites and killed nearly 9,000 people. The six sites, including Pashupatinath, Swoyambhu, Lumbini, Kathmand Durbarsquare, Patan Durbarsquare and Bhaktapur Durbarsquare, […]
Disney Makes 9 Games Free for Windows Phone Users Till Wednesday
Disney is currently offering a bunch of video games free of cost for the Windows Phone platform until June 17. The games being offered for free include Where’s My Water?, Where’s My Perry?, Where’s My Water? Featuring XYY, Where’s My Mickey?, Temple Run: Oz, Temple Run: Brave, Disney Solitaire, Lost Light, and Disney Checkout Challenge. […]
Asia look ahead: Big week for Japan and China
Investors will get a pulse check on Asia’s two largest economies, Japan and China, with a raft of data scheduled for release over the course of the week. Starting with Japan, revised gross domestic product (GDP) on Monday showed the economy grew an annualized 3.9 percent in the January-March period, higher than the preliminary reading of […]
New Facebook Feature Shows Actual Respect for Your Privacy
FACEBOOK JUST TOOK another surprising step towards securing your communications online. The social network is rolling out enable users to use the encryption standard OpenPGP to protect e-mail notifications sent by the company, and to share their public encryption keys with their friends or with the public. The feature is being rolled out to users starting today, […]
Texas, Oklahoma Floods: 12 People Missing as More Rain Forecast
Tornadoes and dangerous thunderstorms menaced Texas and Oklahoma on Monday while rescuers searched for 12 people, including at least three young children, still missing from historic flooding over the weekend. At least four people were confirmed dead in Sunday’s storms and flooding, including a 14-year-old boy in Texas who was found inside a storm drain […]
Suicide bomber kills 20 at Shia mosque in Saudi Arabia
DUBAI: A suicide bomber blew himself up at a Shia mosque in eastern Saudi Arabia during Friday prayers, residents said, killing around 20 people and wounding more than 50, local residents and a hospital officials said. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the bombing, the first to target Shia Muslims in Saudi Arabia since November […]
Biker gang shootout kills 9 outside Waco, Texas, restaurant
Waco, Texas (CNN)Police knew there could be trouble and had officers on the scene even before five rival bike gangs began shooting and stabbing each other, in a brawl that spilled into the adjacent parking lot of several family-friendly businesses, police said. By the time the melee at the Waco, Texas, Twin Peaks restaurant was […]
Rulers of most Gulf nations to miss Camp David summit hosted by Obama
The White House was scrambling Monday to put a positive face on an upcoming summit of Persian Gulf states after learning leaders from four of the six invited nations are expected to skip. While those nations are still sending representatives to the summit being hosted by President Obama later this week at Camp David, the […]
UK election shock: David Cameron defies polls with clear victory
London (CNN)Pundits had predicted the UK election would be a close one and suggested there would be days of post-vote, backroom talk to thrash out a power-sharing deal. Instead, it’s turned into a thumpin’. With all the results in, British Prime Minister David Cameron and his Conservative Party have claimed an outright majority in Parliament, […]
Nepalese slam Indian media, #GoHomeIndianMedia trends
The Indian media is facing flak for its coverage of the earthquake disaster in Nepal with complaints in the social media that it was treating the tragedy as a “public relations exercise” on behalf of the Indian government. As Nepal picks up pieces in the aftermath of last month’s devastating earthquake that killed over 7,000 […]
Internet on brink of collapse: Experts
The internet is heading towards a ‘capacity crunch’ and could reach its limit in just eight years, say scientists. The cables and fibre optics that relay information to our laptops, smartphones and tablets will have reached their limit within eight years, and fibre optics can take no more data from a single optical fibre, scientists […]
Nepal Earthquake: Search for Survivors as Aftershocks Rattle Kathmandu
An earthquake aftershock stronger than many earthquakes hit Nepal, collapsing more buildings and triggering new panic in a country trying to recover from the most powerful quake to hit it in 80 years. Many streets in Kathmandu were impassable, filled not only with rubble but with the injured and with people unwilling to go into any […]
How do drone strikes go wrong?
Two hostages, Warren Weinstein, an American, and Giovanni Lo Porto, an Italian, were killed in Pakistan. Mr Obama says he takes “full responsibility” for their deaths. The loss of these two men shines a spotlight on the efficiency of US operations. White House officials have provided few details about the raid, but few doubt that […]
China’s Xi in Pakistan to unveil $46 bn investment plan
Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Islamabad Monday to unveil a $46 billion investment plan that Pakistan hopes will end a chronic energy crisis and transform it into a regional economic hub. With the plan, known as the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), Beijing hopes to increase investment in Pakistan as part of its ambitions […]
As violent clashes erupt in Jammu & Kashmir, Congress attacks BJP, sees midterm poll in state
JAMMU/SRINAGAR: As violent protests erupted in Kashmir over the arrest of separatist leader Masarat Alam and the killing of two youths by security forces on Friday, the Congress attacked the BJP for “allowing” the release of separatist leaders like Alam. It also claimed that the state will witness midterm election within a year. In Jammu, senior […]
China ‘building runway in disputed South China Sea island’
The images, published by IHS Jane’s Defence Weekly, show construction work on reclaimed land on Fiery Cross Reef in the Spratly Islands. The landmass could accommodate a runway about 3,000m long, the report said. China’s land reclamation work in the area has raised concern around the Asia-Pacific region. China claims almost the whole of the South […]
ISIS Supporters Start #WeWillBurnUSAgain Twitter Campaign Of Threats, Referring To 9/11 Attacks
Supporters of the Islamic State group on Twitter have started a campaign of threats against Americans under the hashtag “#WeWillBurnUSAgain,” referring to the 9/11 attacks and past “lone wolf” attacks in Western countries, while also saying that they will repeat such attacks in future, according to SITE Intelligence Group, which tracks online activity of extremist […]
H1-B visa application cap reached within 5 days
NEW YORK: The US said it has reached the cap for the much-coveted H-1B work visas for 2016 within the first five days for the third consecutive year and will now conduct a lottery system to allocate the visas highly popular among IT professionals from countries like India. The US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) said […]
