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Washington, Sep 10: About 60 Indian nationals are being evacuated from the vacation island of St Martin in the Caribbean, which has been devastated by Hurricane Irma, an extremely powerful storm that wreaked havoc in the region. Most of the Indian nationals have a transit visa, a temporary short period visa, to the US. For those who do not have a transit visa, Indian Embassy here is working with

Damascus, Sep 10: The Syrian Army captured a key oil field of Teym from the Islamic State (IS) in the countryside of Deir al-Zour province. According to reports, the Army has progressively covered over the past 24 hours in reaching Deir al-Zour city from its main desert road. Earlier this week, the Syrian Army and allied troops lifted the three-year-old siege by the IS of Deir al-Zour city through

Miami, Sep 9: Store owners boarded up their windows and families sandbagged their homes to join a mass exodus as Hurricane Irma churned toward Florida after cutting a deadly swath through the Caribbean. After killing at least 19 people and devastating thousands of homes on a string of Caribbean islands, Irma made landfall in Cuba's Camaguey Archipelago as a maximum-strength Category Five storm. It

Islamabad, Sep 7: India should resolve the Kashmir issue through "political and diplomatic" means rather than "abusing" Pakistan, army chief Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa has said. Bajwa, while addressing a Defence Day gathering in Rawalpindi last night, said people of South Asia need peace for prosperity. Accusing India of "killing" innocent people on the LoC, he said the country should give peace a

Islamabad, Sept 7: As international pressure escalated on Pakistan to act against terror groups following a BRICS declaration, Pakistan Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif has admitted that outfits like Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) are operating from their soil. "Friends (China) should not be tested (every time), particularly in the changed scenario. Instead, we should impose some

Washington, Sept 6: With the Trump administration discarding the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program on Tuesday, the lives of 8,00,000 young immigrants in the United States are likely to get affected. An estimated 6,000 Indians too may suffer as a result. DACA, a program introduced by former US President Barack Obama, permitted the immigrants a renewable two-year allowance to

Beijing, Sept 4: China today parried questions on any change in its stand of blocking JeM chief Masood Azhar's banning by the UN, even as the declaration of the BRICS Summit for the first time named the terror outfit along with other Pakistan-based groups for spreading violence in the region. A veto-wielding permanent member of the Security Council, China has repeatedly blocked moves to ban Azhar

London, Sept 4: Education activist Malala Yousafzai has called on her fellow Nobel laureate Aug San Suu Kyi to condemn the "shameful" violence against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, saying the "world is waiting" for her to condemn the unrest. The 20-year-old winner of the Nobel Peace Prize urged Myanmar's State Counsellor and de-facto leader to act against the violence that has seen tens of

Xiamen, Sept 4: In a major diplomatic win for India, a joint declaration adopted by the BRICS member states on Monday unanimously condemned terrorism in all its forms and manifestations. ''We deplore all terrorist attacks worldwide, including attacks in BRICS countries, and condemn terrorism in all its forms and manifestations wherever committed and by whomsoever and stress that there can be no

Houston, Sept 4: A 25-year-old Indian student has died here, days after she was rescued along with another Indian man from a swollen lake in the US state of Texas where Hurricane Harvey wreaked havoc. Shalini Singh, a student pursuing Masters degree in public health from the Texas A&M University, was rescued from the Lake Bryan along with another Indian student Nikhil Bhatia last Saturday. While