INDIA RUSHES SHIPS TO DOUSE FIRE IN COlOMBO
Colombo: Sri lankan Navy with assistance from India doused a major fire on board a huge Panama-registered container carrier off the coast of Colombo. The fire broke out last night on the merchant ship MV MSC-Daniela, when the 14,000-container carrier was about 120 nautical miles away from Sri lanka.
RUSSIA PROBES BOMBER AS DEAD MOURNED
Saint Petersburg: Russia on Wednesday scrambled to unravel the possible motives of the alleged bomber behind a blast in the Saint Petersburg metro that killed 14 people, as the grieving city mourned its dead.
F-16 CRASHES NEAR DC ON TRAINING MISSION
Washington: The pilot of an F-16 fighter ejected safely when the plane crashed on a training mission near Washington on Wednesday, an Air Force official said. Air Force spokesman Colonel Pat Ryder said the plane crashed in an unpopulated area about 10 kms of National Harbor.
VOTING STARTS IN ERDOGAN REFERENDUM
The Hague: Turkish voters based in The Netherlands started casting early ballots today in a referendum which could boost President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s powers, amid an ongoing diplomatic spat between Ankara and Europe.
NORWAY TO BUIlD 1ST OF ITS KIND SEA TUNNEl
Oslo: Norway on Wednesday unveiled plans to build the world’s first sea tunnel to pass through a mountain, avoiding dangerous waters that intimidated even the Vikings. Built to bypass the Stad peninsula, a storm-swept area in western Norway, the Stad ship tunnel will be 1.7 kilometres long and 36 metres wide, making journeys safer.
‘BUNGA BUNGA’ BRIBE TRIAl TO BEGIN IN JUlY
Rome: Italy’s former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi will go on trial in July accused of witness tampering and pay-offs over his alleged “bunga bunga” sex parties, a court ruled on Wednesday.
NO MIlITARY SOlUTION TO AF CONFlICT: PAK
Islamabad: Pakistan said a “military solution” to the Afghan conflict was not possible and focused efforts were needed for a politically negotiated settlement to ensure lasting peace.unable to find bride, engineer marries robot Beijing: In an act of desperation, a 31-year-old Chinese engineer has “married” a robot he created after failing to find bride. Zheng Jiajia, an artificial intelligence expert who designs and creates robots in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, created the “female robot” at the end of last year, the Qianjiang Evening News reported.
VAISAKHI RESOlUTION TABlED IN US CONGRESS
Washington: A bipartisan group of lawmakers have tabled a resolution in the US House of Representatives to celebrate the annual festival of Vaisakhi observed by Sikhs.
7 KIllED IN lAHORE BlAST TARGETING CENSUS TEAM
lahore: At least seven people, including five Pakistani soldiers, were killed and 19 others injured today when a Taliban suicide bomber targeted army men escorting a census team here, the latest in a series of bombings that have rocked the country.