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  Facebook, Twitter not invited for Trump's social media summit: Report

  Technology | July 08, 2019 10:53 IST

  Facebook and Twitter not invited to the Social Media Summit to be held on Tuesday as the two  platforms might censor conservative or Republican views.  

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  Alabama Senate passes ban on abortion, with few exceptions

  World | May 15, 2019 14:27 IST

  Alabama Senators rejected an attempt to add an exception for rape and incest. The amendment was voted down 21-11, with four Republicans joining Democrats.

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  In a historic first, Hindu woman elected to Pakistan's senate

  World | March 04, 2018 20:00 IST

  Kolhi, 39, belonging to the remote village of Dhana Gam in Nagarparkar in the interior Sindh province is a member of Bilawal Bhutto Zardari-led Pakistan People's Party (PPP).

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  Obamacare to stay or go? US Congress to vote on Health Care Bill on Thursday

  World | May 04, 2017 16:23 IST

  May 4 will see the US Congress decide on whether the country repeals former President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act or not as Republican leaders announced that the House will vote on the GOP’s legislation on Thursday.

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  US denies visa to Pak's Senate Deputy Chairman

  World | February 12, 2017 15:58 IST

  Pakistan's Senate Deputy Chairman and leader of one of the largest Islamic parties was denied a US visa, leading to the cancellation of a two-member delegation's planned visit to New York to attend a meeting

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  Brazil's Senate impeaches President Dilma Rousseff

  World | May 12, 2016 15:49 IST

  Brasilla: Brazil's Senate has voted 55-22 to impeach the South American giant's first woman president Dilma Rousseff. President Dilma Rousseff is accused of using accounting tricks to hide large budget deficits. Rousseff will be suspended

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  Afghan Senate chairman attacks intelligence sharing MoU with Pakistan

  World | May 20, 2015 8:27 IST

  Kabul/Islamabad: Afghan Senate Chairman Fazal Hadi Muslimyar on Tuesday denounced recent MoU signed between the National Directorate of Security (NDS) and Pakistan's spy agency ISI, saying that there was no justification for signing an MoU

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  CIA chief admits use of brutal interrogation techniques

  World | December 12, 2014 15:51 IST

  Washington:  Some officers of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) used brutal techniques on terrorist suspects and there was no proof of useful information yielded from the interrogation, the chief of the US spy agency has

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  CIA chief challenges Senate torture report

  World | December 12, 2014 11:32 IST

  Washington: CIA Director John Brennan is acknowledging that agency officers did “abhorrent” things to captive terror suspects, and he says he can't prove the harsh treatment made the prisoners cooperate. But he defends the overall

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  Detainee Zubaydah a key figure in Senate report on CIA

  World | December 10, 2014 8:21 IST

  Washington: Abu Zubaydah was the CIA's guinea pig. He was the first high-profile al Qaida terror suspect captured after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, and the first to vanish into the spy agency's secret prisons,

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  CIA's interrogations were brutal post 9/11, says US Senate report

  World | December 10, 2014 9:53 IST

  Washington: The CIA's harsh interrogations of terrorist detainees during the Bush era were far more brutal than previously acknowledged and delivered no “ticking time bomb” information that prevented an attack, a long-delayed US Senate report

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  Australia considers temporary visas for refugees

  World | December 04, 2014 10:58 IST

  Canberra: Australia's Parliament on Thursday appeared close to passing a bill creating a new class of temporary visas for refugees that will allow them to stay and work in the country for three to five

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  Pakistan Senate observes holiday on Diwali for the first time

  World | October 27, 2014 8:14 IST

  Lahore: Diwali, the festival of lights was celebrated enthusiastically this time in Pakistan as the federal government officially patronised the Hindu festival especially in Punjab province.For the first time, the Senate observed a holiday on

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  Pak Says, It Foiled Terror Plot To Attack Parliament

  World | March 31, 2012 16:44 IST

  Islamabad, Mar 31: Pakistani authorities foiled a terrorist plot to attack Parliament during an address by President Asif Ali Zardari to a joint sitting of the National Assembly and Senate, Interior Minister Rehman Malik said