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Japan, Britain agree to boost Defence Cooperation
Tokyo, Jan 9: Japanese Defence Minister Gen Nakatani and British Defence Secretary Michael Fallon in Saturday agreed to bolster bilateral cooperation.
Nakatani and Fallon met on Saturday in Tokyo. Fallon came to Japan for a meeting of…
EU to start easing restrictions on Fukushima Food Imports
Tokyo, Jan 9: The European Union will start easing from Saturday restrictions imposed on Japanese food imports over the Fukushima nuclear disaster, including vegetables and beef produced in the prefecture.
Tsuyoshi Takagi, cabinet…
Pakistan-Kabul talks in March on avoiding Double Taxation
Islamabad, Jan 9: Pakistan and Afghanistan will hold talks in March on a treaty to avoid double taxation and prevent fiscal evasion, an official said.
A draft agreement on avoidance of double taxation and prevention of fiscal evasion…
Nikki Haley seen as potential Republican Vice Presidential pick
Washington, Jan 9: South Carolina's Indian-American governor Nikki Haley's choice to give the Republican response to President Barack Obama's State of the Union address has fuelled speculation about her as a potential vice presidential…
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump neck-to-neck in Presidential race
Washington, Jan 9: The front-runners for the 2016 US presidential elections from the Democratic and Republican parties, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, would be neck-to-neck if it came to a hypothetical battle for the White House between…
Pathankot Attack: Pakistan needs concrete evidence from India
Islamabad, Jan 9: Pakistan needs concrete evidence from India for acting against the elements involved in the terror attack at the Pathankot air base in Punjab, a media report said on Saturday.
"We are expecting evidence beyond leads and…
China Domain ‘.cn’ becomes World’s largest
Beijing, Jan 9: China's country code domain ".cn" is now the world's most commonly used, the state media reported.
It had 16.36 million users by the end of 2015, topping Germany's ".de", Xinhua cited China Internet Network Information…
Indian NRI students offered Internships in 23 Indian Firms
Washington, Jan 9: Indian diaspora/NRI students will be offered 60 paid short term internship positions in 23 Indian companies in major Indian cities during the summer of 2016 under a public-private partnership.
The Overseas Indian…
Number of French Women in IS rises to 220
Paris, Jan 8: The number of French women who left for Syria and Iraq to join the Islamic State (IS) rose to 220 in 2015, state-media reported on Friday.
This increase is significant when compared with a total of 164 French nationals who…
Paris attacks suspect’s ‘hideout’ found in Brussels
Paris, Jan 8: Belgian prosecutors on Friday announced that they may have found an apartment in capital Brussels where one of the jihadis hid after the November 13, 2015, terror attacks in Paris.
In an apartment in the Schaerbeek district…