TAMIL NADU: At least nine people were killed on Saturday after a train coach parked in southern India caught fire when a passenger tried to make tea, officials said. The coach, which had been detached from a train, was stationed at the Madurai railway yard in
PARIS: Britain's King Charles and his wife, Queen Camilla, will travel to France on Sept. 20-22, the Elysee and Buckingham Palace said, after a planned state visit in March was cancelled because of tense protests over French pension reform. "This visit is an honour for France,
WASHINGTON: The US Justice Department has initiated legal proceedings against Elon Musk's SpaceX, for discriminatory hiring practices against asylum seekers and refugees. The lawsuit asserts that SpaceX, during the period spanning from September 2018 to May 2022, consistently discouraged individuals seeking asylum and refugees from applying
NEW DELHI: India’s prime minister and China’s leader agreed to intensify efforts to de-escalate tensions at the disputed border between them and bring home thousands of their troops deployed there, according to an official from India’s foreign ministry. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Xi Jinping
JOHANNESBURG: South African digital news website Daily Maverick said that it had been subject to a cyber attack from India after it published a report that said Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi refused to leave his aircraft because the South African government had “only sent
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has said that the Centre could not justify the means used to abrogate Article 370 of the Constitution merely by pointing to the ends achieved through the legal changes, The Hindu reported. A five-judge bench headed by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud
SRINAGAR: The President of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK), Mehbooba Mufti, has voiced her concerns regarding the toll taxes levied at Sarore in Jammu. Mehbooba Mufti in a tweet said the Indian government is fleecing the people of
LONDON: Britain's backlog of asylum applications awaiting a decision hit a record high in the year to June and the number of those applying was the highest in two decades, according to official figures published on Thursday, in a blow to the government. The Home Office,
MANILA: The coronavirus pandemic and rise in cost of living have pushed close to 70 million more people in developing Asia into extreme poverty as of last year, the Asian Development Bank said, eroding efforts to combat deprivation. In a new report released on Thursday, the
CAPE TOWN: Cape Town Muslims proudly guard a handwritten copy of the Holy Quran, over 200 years old, found in a paper bag in the attic of the Auwal Mosque during renovations in the mid-1980s. The copy of the Holy Quran, neatly handwritten by an Indonesian