Indian wins Mountain Development Award
Kathmandu: An Indian on Thursday won a mountain development award here for promoting innovations and good practices for environmental conservation in the Hindu Kush Himalayan region. Jayprakash Panwar won the award along with Avinash Jha and Sibjan Chaulagain of Nepal, Suleman Mazhar of Pakistan and HElVETAS Swiss Inter-cooperation.
NATO bombing kills five schoolboys
Kabul: Five schoolboys were killed in a NATO airstrike in Parwan province in eastern Afghanistan, an Afghan police source told Efe news agency, but the incident could not be immediately confirmed by the int’l alliance.
Dewani’s house vandalised in UK
london: British-Indian millionaire Shrien Dewani’s house in the UK was vandalised, a day after he returned from South Africa after being cleared of plotting the murder of his Indo-Swedish bride during their honeymoon.
EU bars libyan airlines from Europe’s skies
Brussels: The EU barred all libyan airlines from European airspace on Thursday for fear violent clashes between warring factions mean the authorities can no longer guarantee the safety of their aircraft.
Suspected Boko Haram raid kills 11 in Nigeria
Maiduguri: Suspected Boko Haram gunmen killed 11 people in an attack on a remote town in the restive northeast of Nigeria, razing houses and forcing residents to flee, a local official said.
ISis shuts down classes in syria
Beirut: The Islamic State (ISIS) Sunni radical group has shut down classes at schools in the Syrian town of Manbej and sent students to Islamist educational centres managed by the radicals, activists said on Thursday.
Indians most addicted to smartphones: survey
Berlin: Nearly 57 per cent of Indians admitted they cannot live without their smartphones, making them the most addicted group of respondents in a survey of users from top five smartphone
regions globally. One in three Indians said they would give up their TV for a week before their smartphone, according a survey.
Pak Taliban criticises Malala after Nobel
Islamabad: Pakistani Taliban on Thursday criticised Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai, saying the teenage activist has entered
into an agreement with “satanic forces” to promote western culture and destroy Pakistan.