Hottest Jan day Sat: 'Global wind pattern behind freak weather'
With five notches above normal, Saturday was the hottest day of January with the maximum temperature rising to 27.2 degrees Celsius. Ecologists, however, said global wind pattern is the reason for freak weather situation in the national Capital. Foggy conditions prevailed in morning hours, leading to cancellation of 46 trains, and...
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Cancel Ryan's licence, AAP MlA to Dy CM
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Pak to complete Pathankot probe soon: Sharif
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Rajapaksa's son held in Sl
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British MPs may have to comply with Sharia law
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Britain's top judge wants ban on veils during criminal trials
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US warship patrols disputed South China Sea
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Masked gangs attack migrants in Sweden: Cops
31 January 2016 | AFP
33 Greece-bound migrants drown off Turkish coast
Turkey’s state-run news agency says at least 33 people, including five children, have drowned in the Aegean Sea after their Greece-bound boat capsized off the Turkish coast. Anadolu Agency says coast guards rescued 75 others from the sea today near the resort of Ayvacik en route to the Greek island of...
UN insists on global participation in lanka rights probe
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has reiterated the need for international participation in accountability probes into alleged human rights abuses and war crimes during Sri lanka’s brutal civil war. Ban’s spokesman Stephane Dujarric said in New York yesterday that the Secretary General had reaffirmed the importance of a credible justice process...
Setback for Hillary as 22 emails declared 'top secret'
In a political setback for Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton just two days before the Iowa caucuses, the Obama administration has acknowledged for the first time that “top secret” information has been found in 22 of her emails that passed through a private server she used during her tenure as...
'16 more starve to death in Syria's besieged Madaya'
Sixteen more people have died of starvation in the besieged Syrian town of Madaya since an aid convoy entered earlier this month, according to Doctors Without Borders. Several dozen more residents of the town are in “danger of death” because of severe malnutrition, the humanitarian group warned. The latest deaths bring...
Syrian Opp heading to Geneva for thorny peace talks
Representatives of Syria’s largest mainstream opposition umbrella group were set to arrive in Geneva today, allaying fears they would boycott UN-brokered talks aimed at ending the country’s brutal civil war. A delegation from the Saudi-backed High Negotiations Committee (HNC) was preparing to leave Riyadh, spokesman Monzer Makhous said. ...
Syria Kurds leave Geneva without peace talks invites: Sources
Syrian Kurdish figures hoping to take part in fragile UN-brokered peace talks in Geneva have left the Swiss city after not receiving invitations to negotiations, sources said today. Saleh Muslim, head of the powerful Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD), had travelled to Geneva last week in the hopes his...
Budget Session likely from Feb 23
The Budget Session of Parliament is likely to begin on February 23 with the Railway Budget to be presented on February 25, a day earlier than what has been the convention over the years. The Union Budget, however, will be presented as per convention on the last day of February,...
