As many as 200 Hindu pilgrims, most of them from India, were overwhelmed with emotions as they prayed at the 100-year-old renovated Maharaja Paramhans Ji temple in Pakistan on Sunday amidst tight security, a year after the temple was demolished by a mob belonging to a radical Islamist party.
The Chinese capital Beijing was shrouded in thick brown dust on Monday morning as a result of heavy winds blowing in from Inner Mongolia and other parts of northwestern China.
'I bow to the great freedom fighters born in Andhra Pradesh. We have not forgotten our freedom fighters, we will not forget and we will move forward by taking inspiration from them,' the prime minister said
At least 70 houses and shops of the Hindus were torched in attacks at Pirganj following Mandal's Facebook post on October 17.
The 119 nearly identical construction sites, that could potentially house powerful weapons capable of reaching the American mainland, are similar to those seen at existing launch facilities for China's arsenal of nuclear-tipped ballistic missiles, the report said.
The blast occurred at an Imambargah located near the Qissa Khwani Bazaar area of Peshawar when the worshippers were offering Friday prayers.
The winners of the Open category of the 2022 Sony World Photography Awards have been revealed.
The body of Harsha Maddula, 18, an engineering-pre med student at Northwestern University in Illinois, United States, who was missing since September 22, was recovered from the water in Wilmette Harbour on Thursday.
Here's everything you wanted to know about the 15th member of the world court.
18-year-old Harsha Maddula, Northwestern pre-med sophomore and straight-A student, disappeared on Saturday over the weekend after attending an off-campus party with friends.
"Do not rejoice, America, in killing Sheikh al-Baghdadi," a spokesman said on the recording.
China on Friday operationalised its first fully electrified bullet train in the remote Himalayan region of Tibet, connecting the provincial capital Lhasa and Nyingchi, a strategically located Tibetan border town close to Arunachal Pradesh.
As many as 362 passengers and six train staff were on board at the time of the incident.
The World Photography Organisation has announced the overall winners of the prestigious Sony World Photography Awards 2022.
Valentina Fyodorova is the captain and oldest member of "Ustyanochka", a team composed mostly of women in their fifties and sixties who train three times a week in the gym and on the ice. Fyodorova, who has three great grandchildren, said that although she is much slower and less skilful than many younger players, she enjoys the camaraderie with her team mates.
A traumatic medical emergency drove physician Dr Devi, of General Hospital soap fame, to run for public office in New York.
Gandhi earlier took a dig at Modi saying he wanted to "congratulate" him on winning the "world famous" Philip Kotler Presidential award.
The country's deputy transport minister warned that the toll could climb further.
35 others have been injured in the landslides and flashfloods triggered by torrential rains.
The MEA said the government of Pakistan should act in defence of their own minorities instead of "preaching sermons" about it to other countries.
'While we may speculate about personality politics, the reality is that there are more important issues that drive the India-US relationship.'
Dipak C Jain, dean of Kelloggs School of Management, is the fourth highest paid official in Northwestern University, according to a new study.
Opinion in Uruguay, a country of around three million people sandwiched between soccer powerhouses Argentina and Brazil, was divided over Luis Suarez's latest antics.
'But one of the important things to remember is that what we are seeing today in India -- the destruction of the forests, the opening up of the forests to mining companies.' 'It's a horrifying thing that's going on.' 'Yet, if you look at who owns the mining companies, you will see that almost always they are vegetarians!' 'They are people, who in their own lives would probably not even hurt an insect, but yet have no qualms about destroying an entire ecosystem.'
Roshni, also a trained classical musician, came on the board of HCL Technologies in 2013 and was vice chairperson. Shiv Nadar would continue to be MD of the company with designation as chief strategy officer.
A device hidden in a plastic bag exploded in the hall last night when people were watching a film at Mingora city, some 150 northeast of Peshawar.
At least 75 people were killed and 412 others injured when two powerful earthquakes on Monday jolted a remote mountainous province in northwestern China near Tibet, causing extensive devastation and triggering landslides.
Radioactive leaks have been reported in at least six underground nuclear waste tanks in one of the most contaminated nuclear site on earth -- in northwestern US state of Washington -- raising concerns about delays in emptying the ageing tanks.
At least three civilians and five suicide attackers were killed when a group of heavily armed Taliban fighters attempted to storm the airport in the northwestern city of Peshawar after firing five rockets, officials said. The militants, who were armed with assault rifles and were wearing suicide vests, tried to enter the Bacha Khan International Airport, but the attempt was foiled by Pakistani security forces.
An explosives-laden car rammed a vehicle leaving the United States Consulate in Peshawar city of northwest Pakistan on Monday, killing at least three persons and injuring over a dozen others, including foreigners. The incident occurred a short distance from the US Consulate and an office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees at Aabdara Road in Peshawar, the capital of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.
Will Gen Kayani's increasingly conservative soldiers fight the Waziri militants, who have long been lauded as a sword arm of Pakistan, asks Ajai Shukla.
Pakistani authorities have taken steps to declare as government property the plot of land in the garrison town of Abbottabad where Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden spent his final years before he was killed by American commandos.
A Chinese court has sentenced to death a terrorist involved in a major terrorist attack that killed 15 people and left 14 others injured in China's northwestern Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
Harsha Maddula left the party with three or four people, according to multiple sources who saw his group leaving the house. George Joseph reports from New York.
A fierce gun battle between security personnel and militants holed up in a house on the outskirts of Peshawar on Sunday claimed four lives, including that of a policeman, hours after nine people were killed during an abortive attempt by the Taliban to storm an air force base in the northwestern Pakistani city.
According to local Urdu TV channel Geo News, the US pilotless plane attacked a suspected house in the Datta Khel area of North Waziristan, Pakistan's restive tribal region bordering Afghanistan.
Chinese multi-millionaire has built a replica of the Paris landmark Chateau de Maisons-Laffitte in Beijing.
The Lac bangle industry in Rajasthan is an example of religious amity.
Day, 27, had been in a coma for four days following his defeat and, despite having emergency brain surgery at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, doctors were unable to save the junior middleweight.
Three persons were killed and about a dozen others injured when a train hit a bomb planted on railway tracks in Pakistan's Sindh province early today, police said.
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