Kabul: Afghan police and units of the national army have killed 38 Taliban militants during a series of operations in the conflict-ridden country over the past 24 hours, the interior ministry said in a statement here on Wednesday. The operations, according to the statement, have been conducted in parts of Nangarhar, Kunduz, Helmand, Samangan, Faryab and Saripul provinces during which...
Baghdad: Iraq's Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has said his country does not need foreign troops to fight IS militants, but welcomes support through weapons and training, themedia reported on Wednesday. "There is no need for foreign combat ground troops on Iraqi soil," a statement by Abadi's office as saying on Tuesday. The presence of foreign troops in Iraq, if any,...
New Delhi: Senior public health specialist Henk Bekedam has taken charge as the World Health Organisation representative to India, an official statement said on Wednesday. “It is a privilege to be in India. I am looking forward to building upon and further strengthening the excellent partnership that WHO has with the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare and with other...
Chennai: More soldiers reached Tamil Nadu on Wednesday to join relief and rescue efforts in the flood-ravaged regions, and officials said they had rescued 65 stranded people so far. Fifteen of them were taken out of a bus that was stranded in a flooded area in Chennai, an official statement said. Fifty others were rescued in Gudvancheri and Mudichur in Chennai....
New Delhi: India captain Virat Kohli slammed the International Cricket Council (ICC) on Wednesday for rating the track in the third Test against South Africa at Nagpur as poor. The pitches during the ongoing series have attracted a lot of controversy as all three Tests have seen rank turners with prodigious turn and unpredictable bounce right from the start. India...
Mumbai: "Rang De Basanti" fame actor Kunal Kapoor is looking forward to filming his first action movie down south soon. "I will start shooting for a film soon in a month's time. It's an action film which is exciting for me as I have never done action. It's not a multi-starrer and we will be shooting down south," Kunal told at...
Dubai: Indian off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin and seamer Mohammed Shami were the only Indians to feature in the International Cricket Council (ICC) Test and One-Day International (ODI) teams of the year 2015, respctively, announced here on Wednesday. Ashwin is the highest wicket-taker of 2015 with 55 scalps, ahead of England pacer Stuart Broad (51). The Tamil Nadu spinner, who had five...
Beijing: Chinese equities closed higher on Wednesday as strong banking and securities shares boosted the broader indices at the end of trading. The benchmark Shanghai Composite rose 2.33 percent to close at 3,536.91 points, and the smaller Shenzhen index advanced 0.87 percent to close at 12,186.27 points, as per reported. Total turnover on the Shanghai and Shenzhen bourses stood at 838.4 billion...
Damascus: Russia's involvement in Syrian war has led to significant changes, including "shrinking" of the Islamic State, President Bashar al-Assad said. Russia launched air strikes against IS in late September in support of Assad, Moscow's ally, BBC reported. Assad said the US air strikes had not slowed the IS group in Syria, but Russian bombing was doing so. He also condemned...
New Delhi: The torrential rains that have flooded Chennai has caused "an unheard of and unprecedented" situation, Union Minister of Urban Development M. Venkaiah Naidu said on Wednesday. Speaking in the Lok Sabha, he said Home Minister Rajnath Singh would hold a meeting on the Chennai floods to discuss rescue and relief measures. "We are very concerned and are with the...
