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Mukesh Ambani earns Rs 3.0b per day

Mukesh Ambani earns Rs 3.0b per day

-- 2018-09-28 14:16:06

Mukesh Ambani, managing director of Reliance Industries, earned Rs 3.0 billion per day over the past one year, according to a report by Barclays Hurun India Rich List 2018.   With a wealth of Rs...

Canada MPs vote to strip Suu Kyi of honorary citizenship

Canada MPs vote to strip Suu Kyi of honorary citizenship

-- 2018-09-28 13:04:01

Canadian MPs have voted unanimously to revoke the honorary citizenship of Myanmar's leader, Aung San Suu Kyi. Passing the motion was a response to her failure to stop the persecution of the Rohingy...

India court approves adultery

India court approves adultery

-- 2018-09-27 18:51:30

India's top court has ruled adultery is no longer a crime, striking down a 158-year-old colonial-era law which it said treated women as male property, reports BBC. Previously any man who had sex with...

10 members of a family die in Oman house fire

10 members of a family die in Oman house fire

-- 2018-09-27 13:20:10

Police in Oman say 10 members of a single family have died after suffocating in a fire at their home in the sultanate. The Royal Oman Police said on Twitter on Thursday that the fire happened at a ho...

China executes man who killed nine in school stabbing

China executes man who killed nine in school stabbing

-- 2018-09-27 10:48:33

China has executed a man on Thursday for killing nine students and injuring 11 others in a knife attack at a middle school in central China’s Shaanxi province in April, according to a post on a...

Australia’s ABC chair resigns amid row

Australia’s ABC chair resigns amid row

BBC 2018-09-27 10:30:51

The chairman of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) has resigned following allegations of political interference. Justin Milne resigned from the national broadcaster amid reports he had ask...

India’s top court upholds national identity project

India’s top court upholds national identity project

-- 2018-09-26 13:18:03

India’s top court on Wednesday upheld the constitutional validity of the country’s ambitious biometric identity project ‘Aadhaar’, saying it benefits the marginalised and poor,...

New Zealand’s ‘First Baby’ makes UN debut

New Zealand’s ‘First Baby’ makes UN debut

-- 2018-09-25 17:59:07

With a mock security pass that lists her as the "First Baby" of New Zealand, three-month-old Neve Te Aroha made her United Nations debut on Monday when her mother - Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern - spo...

UK millionaire becomes victim of ‘contract killing’ in Thailand

UK millionaire becomes victim of ‘contract killing’ in Thailand

-- 2018-09-25 17:06:58

The bodies of a UK millionaire and his Thai wife have been found in northern Thailand nearly a week after what police suspect was a contract killing. The bodies of Alan Hogg, 64, and Nod Suddaen, 64,...

Vietnam jails activist for anti-govt posts on Facebook

Vietnam jails activist for anti-govt posts on Facebook

-- 2018-09-25 16:01:05

A court in Vietnam has jailed an activist for two years and three months on accusations of abusing democracy rights following anti-government posts on social media site Facebook, authorities said. De...

18 die in Ganesh immersion ceremony in India

18 die in Ganesh immersion ceremony in India

-- 2018-09-25 13:55:09

At least 18 people have died, mostly due to drowning, while immersing the idols of Hindu god Ganesh after the end of the 30-hour ceremony in India. The incidents took place on Monday in parts of Maha...

China says talks impossible with a US knife to Beijing's neck

China says talks impossible with a US knife to Beijing's neck

-- 2018-09-25 11:42:31

A Chinese trade envoy says talks with Washington are impossible while the United States "holds a knife" to Beijing's neck by imposing tariff hikes. The deputy commerce minister's warning Tuesday foll...

UN has no right to interfere, Myanmar army chief says

UN has no right to interfere, Myanmar army chief says

-- 2018-09-24 16:52:50

Myanmar's army chief Senior General Min Aung Hlaing has said the United Nations has no right to interfere in the sovereignty of the country. His remarks came after UN investigators called for the pro...

Iran warns US, Israel of revenge after parade attack

Iran warns US, Israel of revenge after parade attack

-- 2018-09-24 15:47:53

The deputy head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards warned US and Israeli leaders on Monday to expect a “devastating” response from Tehran, accusing them of involvement in an attack on a...

Maldives opposition claims victory in presidential election

Maldives opposition claims victory in presidential election

BBC 2018-09-24 11:27:49

The candidate of a united opposition front claims he has ousted the sitting president of the Maldives. Ibrahim Mohamed Solih holds an unbeatable lead over Abdulla Yameen, with 437 of 472 ballot boxes...

Iran ready to confront US, says Rouhani

Iran ready to confront US, says Rouhani

-- 2018-09-23 21:55:57

President Hassan Rouhani said on Sunday Iran was ready to confront the United States and its Gulf Arab allies, a day after an attack on an Iranian military parade killed 25 people, including 12 member...

China destroys over 140,000 illegal guns, explosives

China destroys over 140,000 illegal guns, explosives

-- 2018-09-23 21:54:48

Chinese police have solved more than 33,000 cases involving guns and explosives since a campaign against such crimes was staged across the country in February, reports Xinhua. Over 140,000 illegal gu...

Pakistani PM Khan decries 'arrogant' India for cancelling talks

Pakistani PM Khan decries 'arrogant' India for cancelling talks

-- 2018-09-23 15:05:49

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan labelled India arrogant on Saturday for cancelling what would have been the countries’ first high-level talks in years, decrying “small men occupying bi...

Iran summons some European envoys over parade attack

Iran summons some European envoys over parade attack

-- 2018-09-23 11:37:17

Iran summoned the envoys of the Netherlands, Denmark, and Great Britain on Saturday night over the shooting at a military parade in which 25 people were killed, accusing them of harbouring Iranian opp...

Modi faces calls for resignation over Rafale jet deal

Modi faces calls for resignation over Rafale jet deal

-- 2018-09-23 11:09:46

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi faced calls for his resignation over allegations of corruption in a military jet deal with France after former French president Francois Hollande was quoted as sayi...

Voting starts in controversial Maldives election

Voting starts in controversial Maldives election

-- 2018-09-23 11:03:58

The Maldives has started to vote in a heavily-criticised election that will be closely watched by India and China. The Indian Ocean archipelago is best-known overseas for its clear waters and high-en...

China cancels military talks with US, protesting sanctions

China cancels military talks with US, protesting sanctions

-- 2018-09-23 10:49:11

China summoned the US ambassador in Beijing and postponed joint military talks in protest against a US decision to sanction a Chinese military agency and its director for buying Russian fighter jets a...

China shuts down thousands of websites

China shuts down thousands of websites

Reuters 2018-09-23 10:36:13

China has shut down more than 4,000 websites and online accounts in a three-month campaign against “harmful” online information, the official Xinhua news agency said on Saturday, citing th...

Saudi state TV gets first female news presenter

Saudi state TV gets first female news presenter

-- 2018-09-22 20:08:30

A Saudi Arabian journalist has become the first woman to anchor the main news bulletin on the country's main national television station. Weam Al Dakheel made the history co-presenting Al Saudiya's m...

IS claims Iran military parade attack, provides no evidence

IS claims Iran military parade attack, provides no evidence

-- 2018-09-22 18:09:37

Islamic State (IS) claimed responsibility for an attack by gunmen on a military parade in southwestern Iran on Saturday, according to the group’s Amaq news agency. Amaq said Islamic State fight...

Attack on Iranian military parade leaves 24 dead

Attack on Iranian military parade leaves 24 dead

-- 2018-09-22 17:22:13

At least 24 people were killed and 53 others injured in an attack on a military parade in Iran's southwestern city of Ahvaz on Saturday, Iran's state news IRNA said. The dead and wounded were both mi...

At least 12 die in Iran military parade attack

At least 12 die in Iran military parade attack

-- 2018-09-22 15:52:11

Gunmen have opened fire on an Iranian military parade in the south-western city of Ahvaz, killing at least 11 people, including civilians, and injuring more than 20, state media say. The attackers sh...

Eight children die in Afghan police station bomb blast

Eight children die in Afghan police station bomb blast

-- 2018-09-22 14:22:46

At least eight children have been killed and six wounded in a bomb blast in Afghanistan's northern Faryab province. Police in the Shirin Tagab district blamed the Taliban for planting a mine in the a...

Gunmen attack military parade in Iran; several dead

Gunmen attack military parade in Iran; several dead

-- 2018-09-22 13:10:17

Several people were killed when unknown gunmen opened fire during a military parade in the southwestern Iranian city of Ahvaz on Saturday, state television reported. Iran was holding a number of para...

China opens embassy in Dominican Republic

China opens embassy in Dominican Republic

-- 2018-09-22 10:43:16

China’s most senior envoy inaugurated a new embassy in the Dominican Republic on Friday after the Caribbean country cut ties with Taiwan in a move that prompted US concern over the Asian island&...