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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 ...

A US court today sentenced to life imprisonment a Navy veteran who yelled “get out of my country” before killing Indian engineer Srinivas Kuchibhotla in a racially motivated hate crime at a bar in Kansas City last year. A federal judge in Kansas sentenced Adam Purinton to nearly 78 years in prison as part of a plea agreement reached in ...

Commonwealth Bank of Australia has accepted the loss of bank records of nearly 20 million people. According to the BBC’s report, the data contained the account holders’ names, account numbers, addresses and other details, which was stored in two magnetic tapes, which was destroyed by a contractor in 2016. This is the latest scam of Australia’s largest lender. In his ...

British company Cambridge Analytica, which was embroiled in the Facebook data leak controversy, announced its closure on Wednesday with immediate effect. The company has also announced to apply itself to declare itself bankrupt in Britain and the United States. The company said in a statement, that it has been decided that there is no possibility of staying in business anymore. ...

A coordinated double suicide bombing by the Islamic State group hit central Kabul on Monday morning, killing at least 25 people, including nine Afghan journalists, officials said. An AFP photographer, a cameraman for the local Tolo TV station and several reporters for the Afghan branch of Radio Free Europe were among the fatalities, police said. At least 45 people were ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping have decided to issue “strategic guidance” to their militaries to strengthen communications and to build trust and understanding, a top Indian diplomat said on Saturday, a move aimed at avoiding a Dokalam-like situation in the future Modi said his talks with President Xi focussed on diverse areas ...