spotlight

New York: The FBI seized top secret files from former US President Donald Trump's estate in Florida this week during its raid, according to a search warrant.Agents removed 11 sets of documents, including some marked "TS/SCI", a designation...

Washington: US House of Representatives passed the Democratic spending bill on tax policy, health care, and climate change, a few days after the Senate approval.The bill on Friday, dubbed the Inflation Reduction Act, is scaled down from the massive...

New Delhi: Salman Rushdie, literally the "midnight's child" draws a close relation to his most celebrated title -- being born in 1947, when India too announced her "tryst with destiny".The Indian-born novelist catapulted to fame with "Midnight's Children" in...

New York: Celebrated author Salman Rushdie, whose "Satanic Verses" drew death threats in the 1980s, is on ventilator after a New York stabbing incident.Rushdie's agent told the media nerves in the novelist's arm were severed; and his liver was...

New York: Renowned author Salman Rushdie, who faces death threats for years after writing 'The Satanic Verses', has been attacked on stage during an event at the Chautauqua Institution in New York, police said.The author was attacked when he...

Washington: The US Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a motion to unseal the search warrant for former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence.Attorney General Merrick Garland made the announcement days after Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents raided the Mar-a-Lago...

Islamabad: The Shehbaz Sharif government is preparing a ‘contingency plan’ to deal with the potential resurgence of the outlawed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) after reports suggested the terrorist outfit was trying to make a comeback.On Thursday, Defence Minister Khawaja Asif...

New Delhi: India registered 16,551 new Covid-19 cases, the Health Ministry said on Friday.According to the bulletin issued by the Health Ministry, the total caseload rose to 4,42,23,557 while the death toll rose to 5,26,928 as 49 more...

Havana: The Colombian government wants to resume peace talks with the National Liberation Army (ELN) guerrilla in the Cuban capital, Colombia's Foreign Affairs Minister Alvaro Leyva said here."We hope to resume dialogues with ELN in this land of peace...

Beijing: Taipei views Beijing's white book on Taiwan as demonstrating its determination to invade the island, and rejects the "one country - two systems" approach, Taiwan Foreign Ministry spokesperson Joanne Ou said on Thursday."The contents of the White Book...