A powerful remote-controlled bomb blast near a mosque in Pakistan’s Balochistan province has killed four policemen and injured 11 others, the second major attack to rock the restive region in the last three days. The explosion occurred on Monday night when people were assembling for
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Government of India extended the ban on the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) on Tuesday for violent and disruptive activities which are prejudicial to the integrity and sovereignty of India. The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) renewed its 2014 notification to declare LTTE as an
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A Muslim man was killed in Sri Lanka on Monday, police said after imposing a nationwide curfew to contain a violent new backlash against Easter suicide bombings.
The 45-year-old man died shortly after admission to a hospital in Puttalam district during anti-Muslim rioting which began
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Sri Lanka blocked access to Facebook and WhatsApp on Monday after a posting sparked anti-Muslim riots across several towns in the latest fallout from the Easter Sunday suicide attacks. Christian groups attacked Muslim-owned shops in the northwestern town of Chilaw on Sunday in anger at a
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Kamal Haasan said at a campaign event on Sunday that first terrorist of Independent India was Hindu Nathu Ram Godse who killed Mahatma Gandhi.
Kamal Haasan, the leader of Makkal Needhi Maiam (MNM), was campaigning in Avarakurichi with S Mohanraj, his party's candidate for the
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Mumbai Indians defeated defending champion Chennai Super Kings by 1 run in a last-ball thriller in Hyderabad on Sunday to become the 1st team to win the Indian Premier League for the 4th time.
Mumbai Indian bat first and made 149/8 and Chennai Super Kings made 148/7 in 20 overs. The
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Domestic equity benchmarks BSE Sensex and NSE Nifty started on a choppy note Monday tracking weak cues from global markets as rising rift between the US and China kept investors on edge.
The 30-share index was trading 23.96 points, or 0.06 per cent, lower at 37,439.03. The broader NSE
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A plane has landed in Myanmar using only its back wheels after the front wheels failed to deploy.
Eighty-two passengers and seven crew members were on the Myanmar National Airlines plane when it made an emergency landing at Mandalay International Airport on Sunday.
Flight
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The Pakistan government has banned 11 Lahore-based organisations for having links with proscribed outifts JeM led by global terrorist Masood Azhar, JuD of 2008 Mumbai attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed and the FIF.
Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) chief Azhar was designated as a global
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The death toll from a May 6 tanker truck explosion near the international airport in Niger's capital has risen to 76, state television reported late Sunday. An earlier official report Tuesday gave 60 dead, including 55 who died at the time of the explosion a few hundred metres (yards) from
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