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Washington, Jan 5: The US has suspended more than USD 1.15 billion security assistance to Pakistan, accusing Islamabad of harbouring terror groups like the Afghan Taliban and the Haqqani Network within its border and showing unwillingness to take "decisive actions" against them. The freezing of all security assistance to Pakistan comes days after President Donald Trump in a new year tweet accused

Bengaluru, Jan 4: Royal Challengers Bangalore retained their skipper Virat Kohli for a record Rs 17 crore as the player retention deadline ended on Thursday. Kohli, a star performer for the RCB, breaks the record of Rs 16 crore for which the KingsXI Punjab had bought Yuvraj Singh two seasons ago. While most of the player retentions went along expected lines, there were some surprise packages as

Pakistan on Thursday released another video of Indian death row prisoner Kulbhushan Jadhav confessing that he was a commissioned officer of the Indian Navy and that the diplomat who was accompanying his family for the meeting shouted at his mother. The video begins with Jadhav thanking the Indian and Pakistani governments for arranging a meeting with his mother and wife. “My mother was very happy

Islamabad, Jan 4: Pakistan on Thursday released another video of Indian death row prisoner Kulbhushan Jadhav purportedly confessing that he was a commissioned officer of the Indian Navy and that the diplomat who was accompanying his family for the meeting yelled at his mother. However, the veracity of the video which was released by the Pakistan Foreign Office could not be ascertained. The video

New Delhi, Jan 4: The Delhi High Court today commuted the death penalty awarded to two convicts in the 2009 Jigisha Ghosh murder case to life imprisonment. A bench of Justices S Muralidhar and IS Mehta, however, upheld the life imprisonment awarded to the third convict by a trial court in the case. "We commute death sentence awarded to two convicts to life imprisonment," the bench said. While

Mumbai, Jan 4: The Mumbai Police registered 16 FIRs and detained over 300 people in connection with protests by Dalit groups during the day-long bandh yesterday against the Bhima Koregaon caste clashes, while Internet services were suspended in Kolhapur following tension in the district. Over 200 buses of the Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation were damaged in attacks by protesters across

Mumbai: The Mumbai Police on Thursday cancelled an event which was to be attended by newly-elected Gujarat MLA and Dalit activist Jignesh Mevani and Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University's (JNU) student leader Umar Khalid in connection with their provocative speeches made earlier. According to reports, the authorities today sealed an auditorium in the Vile Parle locality where the event was

New Delhi, Jan 4: The government has rescued from Kenya three Indian and seven Nepalese girls, who were victims of an organised crime syndicate that indulged in human trafficking, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said today. The girls have been flown back, the minister said. In a series of tweets, Swaraj said, "We have rescued three Indian girls from Kenya. The girls were victims of an

Mumbai, Jan 4: Four people, including two children died and five were seriously injured after an upper floor of a residential building in suburban Marol caught fire here today, an official said. "Mumbai Fire Brigade got call at 2.10 am about fire at the fourth floor of Ground plus Mamoon Manzil building at Marol in Andheri East. Our fire brigade personnel along with the fire fighting system and

Mumbai, Jan 3: The day-long 'Maharashtra bandh' called by various Dalit and other organisations to protest the violence against commemoration of Bhima-Koregaon battle has been withdrawn, Bharipa Bahujan Mahasangh leader Prakash Ambedkar said today. He told reporters that nearly 50 per cent of the state's population took part in the shut-down. Road blockades, arson and stone-pelting incidents were