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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 ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un reached South Korea for a historic dialogue on Friday. According to reports, South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in joined smiling Kim Jong at the border before the talks started, and joined hands with great promptness. Kim Jong said at the conference venue that he is expecting a great discussion. This historic meeting will also focus on ...

Hundreds of people gathered in the midst of the remains of historic shrine of Kashthamandap in the heart of Nepal’s capital city to remember victims of the 2015 earthequake, with prime minister K P Oli vowing to rebuild the heritage sites devastated in the tragedy. The earthquake had killed around 9,000 people and injured more than 22,000 in 2015. The ...

At least 10 people have died after a man plowed a white rental van into a crowd of pedestrians in Canada’s biggest city Toronto, in what police dubbed a “deliberate” attack. The incident took place in broad daylight around 16 kilometers from a conference center hosting a meeting of G7 ministers, but officials said they had no evidence of a ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU For those seeking spiritual solace and Yoga, Uttarakhand is the best destination, as it has many religious destinations which can be only found in Uttarakhand,” claimed the state Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat while addressing a conclave on opportunities for investment in tourism sector in Uttarakhand was held at Bangkok, Thailand on Tuesday. Uttarakhand Tourism Secretary, Dilip Jawalkar ...

US President Donald Trump today defended his having hailed a US and allied strike in Syria as “Mission Accomplished.” The phrase immediately evoked former president George W Bush’s premature Iraq victory speech on board the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln on May 1, 2003. A banner proclaiming “Mission Accomplished” loomed in the background as Bush declared the end of major ...