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Prime Minister Narendra Modi today met his Singaporean counterpart Lee Hsien Loong and discussed bilateral ties. Modi, who arrived here yesterday on a three-day visit, also called on Singapore President Halimah Yacob. After his arrival at the presidential palace Istana, he was accorded a ceremonial welcome. “Prime Minister Modi was accorded a ceremonial welcome on his arrival at Istana – ...

Security forces moved in on the biggest migrant camp in the French capital today where some 1,700 people lived in makeshift tents alongside a canal. The migrants would be housed temporarily at more than 20 sites across the Paris region while the authorities checked their identities, Interior Minister Gerard Collomb said in a statement. CRS riot police were deployed at ...

Director General of Military Operations (DGMOs) of India and Pakistan today agreed to “fully implement” the ceasefire pact of 2003 in “letter and spirit” forthwith to stop cross border firings in Jammu and Kashmir. The two military commanders reviewed the prevailing situation along the Line of Control (LoC) and International Border (IB) in J and K during a conversation over ...

London police have seized half a million pounds ( $667,000) worth of bitcoin from a prolific computer hacker in a case described as the first of its kind for the 188-year-old department. Cybercrime detectives seized the bitcoin from Grant West, 26, who was sentenced to 10 years and 8 months in prison Friday for attacking some 100 companies worldwide, largely ...

In an Indian restaurant in Mississauga, Canada, 15 people were injured in the Improvised Explosive Device (IED) explosion. According to ‘CBC Canada’, a campaign for the search of two suspects has been started, who executed the expolsion at the Bombay Bhel restaurant and fled after the explosion. This incident took place around 10.30 pm on Thursday (May 24) in the ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Two unidentified men detonated a powerful improvised explosive device at an Indian restaurant in Canada’s Ontario province, injuring at least 15 people, police said on Friday. Three of them have suffered “critical blast injuries” and were rushed to a Toronto trauma centre, Canadian broadcaster CBC reported. Police said that the incident occurred at Bombay Bhel restaurant in ...

Ousted Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif appeared to admit that Pakistani terrorists carried out the 2008 Mumbai attacks, known as 26/11, and suggest that such terror strikes could have been prevented. In an interview to the Dawn newspaper published on Saturday, Sharif also lamented that Pakistan had isolated itself. He indicated that his country should look into why its narrative ...

Sun Zhengcai, once tipped to become President Xi Jinping’s successor and later accused of plotting a coup against him, was today sentenced to life imprisonment for taking USD 26.7 million in bribes. Sun, a former Politburo member during the first five-year tenure of Xi, is the latest senior cadre to fall in the President’s sweeping anti-corruption drive. Until his arrest ...

US President Donald Trump today said he will announce his decision on whether to withdraw from the Iranian nuclear deal tomorrow. I will be announcing my decision on the Iran deal tomorrow from the White House at 2:00 pm, Trump said in a tweet. Ever since his election campaign, Trump has described the Iranian nuclear agreement, which was negotiated by ...

Six Indians working in a power company in Afghanistan’s northern Baghlan province were allegedly abducted today by Taliban gunmen who apparently mistook them for government employees, Afghan media reports said. External Affairs Ministry in New Delhi said it was in touch with Afghan authorities and was ascertaining the details of the incident. The Taliban militants abducted the six Indian staff ...