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Istanbul, Sept 21: An 85-year-old man killed his 76-year-old wife and attempted to commit suicide in Istanbul after an argument over his social media activity that made her “jealous”. The couple, Bilal and Esma who had been married for 50 years, lived in Germany, and went to Turkey last week for a holiday in Istanbul, Turkish daily Hurriyet reported. Relatives, alarmed that the couple did not

Islamabad, Sept 21: Pakistan's new Prime Minister Imran Khan has written a letter to his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi, the Foreign Office said on Thursday, seeking to re-start the bilateral talks on key issues "challenging the relationship" including on terrorism and Kashmir. In the letter dated September 14, the cricketer-turned-politician, who became the prime minister last month, proposed a

Islamabad, Sept 21: Saudi Arabia will be the third "strategic partner" of the $50 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), a senior Pakistani minister announced on Thursday, soon after Prime Minister Imran Khan returned from his first foreign trip to the cash-rich kingdom. The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is the flagship project of the multi-billion dollar Belt and Road

Vizag, Sept 21: The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has said that a low pressure formed over the west-central Bay of Bengal has intensified into a deep depression on Thursday and is likely to transform into a cyclonic storm in Andhra Pradesh and Odisha in the next few hours. Speaking to news agency, IMD cyclone warning centre officer, Sastri said, "The deep depression has moved west

Dubai, Sept 20: Emirates and Etihad, two state-owned airlines in the United Arab Emirates, denied on Thursday a Bloomberg report which quoted unnamed sources as saying Emirates was seeking to take over Etihad to create the world's largest airline. "There is no truth to this rumour," an Emirates spokeswoman said. Etihad made a similar statement.

Jammu, Sept 20: Authorities in Jammu gave Islamic burial to three slain terrorists after the Muslim graveyards denied space to them. The three terrorists, belonging to the Jaish-e-Mohammad outfit, were Pakistan nationals, who were smoked out during a fierce gun-battle with the security forces on September 13 in Dirthi village in the Kakryal area of Reasi district. According to sources in Jammu and

New Delhi, Sept 20: In what appears to be a case of negligence and oversight, at least 166 passengers aboard a Jet Airways flight suffered nose bleed and headaches when the cabin crew forgot to select the switch that maintains cabin pressure during take-off. The Boeing 737 aircraft returned to Mumbai due to "loss of cabin pressure" and the pilots have been taken off duty pending investigation, a

Lucknow, Sept 20: Uttar Pradesh Navnirman Sena has offered a Lok Sabha ticket from Agra to Shambhulal Regar, the man who allegedly hacked and burnt a Muslim man to death in Rajasthan's Rajsamand district last year. Addressing the press conference in Agra, Uttar Pradesh Navnirman Sena national president Amit Jani announced names of five contestants who would be contesting in the upcoming Lok Sabha

New Delhi, Sept 20: Congress president Rahul Gandhi today accused Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman of "lying" on Hindustan Aeronautics Limited or HAL's capability to build Rafale aircraft and demanded her resignation. The Congress chief took to Twitter to attack Ms Sitharaman, alleging that her position as the defence minister of the country has become untenable as a former chief of the state

Rampur, Sept 20: Samajwadi Party leader and former Uttar Pradesh Minister Mohammad Azam Khan has termed the promulgation of the Ordinance on Triple Talaq as just a political agenda for the coming 2019 Lok Sabha polls, raised by the BJP. "Allah is the supreme and no law can counter his punishment. But we will obey by the law made by Allah and if the Ordinance was made under its preview, then there