Unseasonal rain damages crop in Punjab & Haryana
Unseasonal rain and hailstorm in the past few days have damaged wheat crop in some parts of Punjab and Haryana. Agriculture Secretary Shobhana K Pattanayak talking to the reporters in…
High-level Committee to look into missing files in Ishrat Jahan encounter case
Government has set up a high-level committee to look into the issue of missing files related to 2004 Ishrat Jahan encounter case. The committee headed by an Additional Secretary in…
Azad should have avoided IS-RSS remarks: Jaitley
AMN / Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has said that, the reported statement of leader of opposition Ghulam Nabi Azad equating RSS with the Islamic terror group ISIS could have been…
Putin condemns blast in Turkey
MOSCOW Russian President Vladimir Putin has strongly condemned the blast in Ankara, the Kremlin said on Sunday. “Putin resolutely condemns the brutal terrorist attack in Ankara,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov…
Death toll in Ankara bomb blast rises to 37
ANKARA– The death toll of the bomb attack in the Turkish capital of Ankara on Sunday has gone up to 37, said Turkish Health Minister Mehmet Muezzinoglu on Monday. One…
Egypt’s Justice Minister sacked for reamrks against prophet
AMN / Egypt’s Justice Minister Ahmed al-Zind has been sacked after boasting that he would jail Islam’s Prophet Muhammad himself if the prophet broke the law. Mr Zind made the…
Merkel party disappoints in German vote
German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party has suffered defeats in two of three states holding regional elections. Exit polls suggest Merkel’s conservative Christian Democratic Union party lost support in Baden-Wuerttemberg and…
Parliamentary Committee issues notice to Rahul Gandhi on dual citizeship
AMN / The Parliamentary Ethics Committee has issued a show-cause notice to Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi asking him to respond to questions on whether he had once declared himself a…
Heavy rains kill 31 in Pakistan
Heavy and torrential rains have wreaked havoc in Pakistan, killing at least 31 people and injuring 47 others. The seasonal downpour started in Balochistan province on Thursday and after that…
Donald Trump suffers defeat in Washington and Wyoming
Donald Trump has suffered a double blow as the controversial Republican front-runner was routed by rivals Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio in polls in the US capital Washington and Wyoming.…