Thousands of people have gathered to pay their last respects to boxing legend Muhammad Ali who passed away at age 74 a week ago. The two-day funeral began on Thursday at the Freedom Hall arena where Ali had some of the best bouts at the dawn of his distinguished boxing career. Some 14,000 free tickets were issued to attend the jenazah, reports Tass. ...
Pakistan has expressed concern over growing strategic ties between India and the US, a day after the two countries signed a number of agreements for security cooperation during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to the US. Addressing a conference at the Foreign Office on Thursday, Adviser to the Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz said th...
Washington, June 10 US President Barack Obama has formally endorsed Hillary Clinton and called her the most qualified candidate to seek the White House, imploring Democrats to come together to elect her, the media reported....
No electronic dance music (EDM) festivals will be allowed in Goa during the festive week of Christmas and New Year, Tourism Minister Dilip Parulekar said on Thursday, claiming that such events lead to chaos in Goa during "peak season". ...
Former Pakistan Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has claimed that former president General (retd) Pervez Musharraf and Benazir Bhutto did not want Nawaz Sharif to return to Pakistan before the 2008 general elections. ...
An internal enquiry by Bank of Baroda (BoB) in freezing the accounts of a marginal farmer in Uttar Pradesh for being a 'guarantor' to the Rs 550 crore loan it gave to tycoon Vijay Mallya revealed that the state-run bank had mistaken the farmer to be the real guarantor, who goes by the same name. ...
The CBI on Thursday formed a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to expedite probe into the Rs 3,600 crore AgustaWestland VVIP chopper deal and the alleged loan fraud by former liquor baron Vijay Mallya. ...
The Bombay High Court on Thursday asked the CBFC to explain the 13 changes suggested in the upcoming Bollywood release 'Udta Punjab' as the board stoutly defended its Revising Committee's decision in the matter. ...
Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh on Thursday reportedly "failed to explain the evidences" against him during questioning by the CBI here and he was summoned again on Friday for a second round of questioning in a case of alleged disproportionate wealth....
I was all alone in the bar when two passersby stormed in. They pointed at the alcohol bottles at the counter, and one of them told me in Arabic, 'You should be ashamed of serving alcohol during Ramadan'," the woman, a Muslim, told the French Nouvel Obs newspaper...
