An exploding cylinder of natural gas stored in a car set off the fire that killed at least 110 people in Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka, Wednesday night, The New York Times reported.The streets were packed at the time of the first explosion in a Dhaka bazaar, witnesses sad ... Then a plastics store on the ground floor of a nearby building caught fire....
Baghpat After withdrawing the most favoured nation (MFN) status and slamming a 200 per cent import duty, India on Thursday decided to stop the flow of its share of water from the three eastern rivers -- the Beas, Ravi and Sutlej -- to Pakistan... In another tweet, he said construction of a dam had started at Shahpur-Kandi on Ravi river ... ....
ABUJA (Reuters) - PresidentMuhammadu Buhari on Friday urged Nigerians "to go out and vote", promising that there would be adequate security for Saturday's postponed election that pits him in a tight race with businessman Atiku Abubakar... ....
In a dire warning to the United States, Russian PresidentVladimir Putin said his country is ready for a Cuban Missile-style crisis if the U.S ... missile deployments in Turkey by sending ballistic missiles to Cuba, the report said. It sparked a standoff that brought the world to the brink of nuclear war. Currently, tensions are on the rise as the U.S....
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket took off from Florida on Thursday night while carrying three payloads, one of which is Israel's first lunar lander on a mission to make the Jewish state the fourth nation to ever achieve a controlled touchdown on the surface of the moon, according to The Associated Press... The launch occurred at 8.45 p.m ... Air Force....
MEDELLIN, Colombia -- PresidentNicolas Maduro of Venezuela ordered its border with Brazil closed Thursday, part of his escalating effort to stop opponents from sending humanitarian aid into his poverty-stricken country ...Maduro, who has called Guaido an American lackey, has vowed not to let the aid in ... ....
Caracas. Venezuelan PresidentNicolas Maduro on Thursday announced the arrival of 7.5 tons of medical supplies from Russia amid mounting pressure on him from the opposition to accept humanitarian aid from the United States and its allies ... Oil-rich Venezuela is contending with shortages of basic goods as well as hyperinflation ... Source. IANS. ....
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Lahore, Feb 22. India has come up with different kinds of reaction to the suicide terror attack on a CRPF convoy in Jammu and Kashmir last week that killed over 40 personnel. While it has already withdrawn the Most ... ....
The European Union's Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier said on Friday that he cannot rule out the possibility that Britain's EU withdrawal is pushed back ... ....
The buckets were moved to another location, and Stephenson called a national park specialist in Colorado, who sent technicians with a Ludlum meter, another tool for measuring radiation. He says the technicians removed the buckets wearing dish-washing and gardening gloves ... WN.com, Jim Berrie ....
TOKYO (AP) — Japan's Emperor Akihito has devoted his 30-year reign to making amends for a war fought in his father's name, while adapting the 1,500-year-old monarchy to draw the ImperialFamily closer to the public ... Kazuo Oda, a retired trading house executive and longtime tennis buddy of Akihito's, describes his friend as "extremely earnest." ... Aug ... ....
A Japanese spacecraft successfully touched down on the asteroid Ryugu on Friday, which is some 340 million km from Earth, to take samples that could provide clues on the origins of the solar system ... "Spacecraft state is normal ... Hayabusa2 was launched in December 2014 from the Tanegashima space centre and is scheduled to return to Earth in late 2020 ... ....
Sheikh MuhammadLatif filed a petition pleading through his counsel that the Import PolicyOrder 2016 announced by the federal government had banned import of all Indian films and other content, Dawn news reported on Friday ... --IANS. ksk ....