Cyber attack using stolen NSA tools sweeps nations
Scores of countries and several multinational companies were hit by a massive cyber attack which, experts said, was carried out with the help of tools stolen from the National Security Agency (NSA) of the United States.
India to skip China’s Belt and Road Forum
India will skip China’s high profile Belt and Road summit beginning here on Sunday in view of sovereignty concerns related to the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), a flagship project of the initiative that is expected to play a dominant role in the two-day meet.
RSS worker killing: Governor asks Kerala CM to take action
Kerala Governor P. Sathasivam on Saturday asked Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan to take immediate action to end violence and murders in the politically volatile Kannur district.
Two civilians killed, four Armymen injured in Pak. shelling
Two civilians were killed and four soldiers injured as Pakistan Rangers resorted to shelling and firing on Saturday morning in a fresh ceasefire violation in Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir. Over 50 schools were closed.
10 working on road project under China-funded Belt and Road initiative near Gwadar port killed
Ten labourers working on a road project near Pakistan’s strategic Gwadar port in the Balochistan Province were shot dead by gunmen on Saturday. Gwadar Deputy Commissioner Naeem Bazai said the labourers were from Sindh Province. Eight of the labourers died on the spot while two succumbed to their injuries while being taken to hospital, Dawn newspaper reported.
Vijay Mallya’s extradition hearing in UK deferred to June 13
The hearing on businessman Vijay Mallya’s extradition from the United Kingdom has been deferred to June 13, Britain’s Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has said.
Traffic pollution reaches the Himalayas
India’s notorious traffic pollution is no longer an urban malaise, its impact is now being felt 4,000 metres above sea level, in the Himalayas. Geologists have found high levels of sulphur from diesel emissions along the Manali-Leh highway that snakes through the northwestern Himalayas.
Pope makes two Fatima children saints on centenary of visions
Pope Francis added two Portuguese shepherd children to the roster of Catholic saints on Saturday, honouring young siblings whose reported visions of the Virgin Mary 100 years ago turned the Portuguese farm town of Fatima into one of the world’s most important Catholic shrines.
"North Korea will have talks with U.S. under ‘right’ conditions''
A senior North Korean diplomat, who handles relations with the United States, said on Saturday that Pyongyang would have dialogue with the U.S. administration if conditions were right, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported.
JNU student ‘raps’ V-C for ‘terrible decision-making skills’
Set to graduate soon, Jawaharlal Nehru University student Rahul Rajkhowa has decided to bid adieu to his alma mater in a way different from the others. Instead of writing a long post on social media or shouting slogans at a public meet, Rahul decided to rap and “tell the Nation about the terrible decision-making skills of the JNU Vice-Chancellor”.
