26/11 case: Hearing adjourned till April 30
lahore: A Pakistani anti-terrorism court holding the trial of seven accused in the 2008 Mumbai attack case on Wednesday adjourned the hearing till next week after it failed to record the statements of two witnesses as the case document could not be produced before it.
US: No reason to think ISIS leader wounded
Washington: US forces have no reason to think Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was wounded in an air strike against an Iraqi target last month, the Pentagon said on Wednesday. British daily The Guardian had earlier reported that the militant, who styles himself caliph of the jehadis’ territory in Iraq and Syria, had been “seriously wounded” in an allied raid.
Atomic clock won’t lose a second in 15b yrs
Washington: A record-setting strontium atomic clock has gotten so precise and stable that it will neither gain nor lose a second in some 15 billion years — roughly the age of the universe, scientists say. The experimental strontium lattice clock at JIlA, a joint institute of National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the US and the University of Colorado Boulder, is now more than three times as precise as it was last year, when it set the previous world record.
Spain recalls envoy to Venezuela for talks
Madrid: Spain’s Foreign Minister has recalled the country’s ambassador to Venezuela for consultations, a day after Venezuela’s leader accused Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy of backing a conspiracy to overthrow his Government.
Pak PM to visit Arabia to mend ties over Yemen
Islamabad: Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will lead a high-level delegation, including the Army chief, to Saudi Arabia on Thursday in a bid to cool tempers in the kingdom over Islamabad’s refusal to provide troops for the war in Yemen.
US drone kills 7 Qaeda fighters in Yemen
Sanaa: Yemeni security officials say a suspected US drone strike has killed seven al-Qaeda fighters in the country’s east. They say the militants were travelling in a car in Mukalla, the capital of Hadramawt province, where al-Qaida has recently made advances and struck deals with local tribesmen, when the drone hit on Wednesday. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to talk to the media.