Karachi: Popular Pakistani reporter Chand Nawab was reportedly beaten up by the Karachi Railway police on Tuesday. He went to the railway station to investigate the illegal and unauthorised sale of train tickets. The Railways in Sindh province has ordered a probe. agencies
Suspect in Pakistan air base attack arrested
Islamabad: Pakistan intelligence agencies have arrested a suspect involved in last week’s attack on a Pakistan Air Force base camp in Peshawar. The suspect, identified as Bakhtiar, was arrested during an operation in Charsadda district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Geo Tv reported on Tuesday. IANS
Boy handcuffed for making clock a guest at Google Fair
Houston: Ahmed Mohamed, the 14-year-old Muslim schoolboy, who was arrested last week in the US after his homemade clock was mistaken for a bomb was the surprise guest at the fifth annual Google Science Fair in California. Ahmed, a Sudanese-American engineering enthusiast from Irving in Texas who captured the most attention of all never entered the competition. PTI
South Korea, US, Japan to hold talks next week
Seoul: South Korea, the US and Japan plan to hold a trilateral meeting of their top diplomats next week in New York, Seoul’s foreign ministry said on Tuesday. South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se will hold talks with US Secretary of State John Kerry and Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida in New York on September 29 during his visit there to attend the UN General Assembly, Xinhua news agency reported citing Seoul's foreign ministry spokesman Noh Kwang-il. IANS
No NYT edition in Thailand after article on king’s health
Bangkok: The New York Times said on Tuesday that its printer had refused to print the local edition of the international newspaper because it featured a front page article on the health of the ailing king. The condition of King Bhumibol (87) is a controversial topic in Thailand. “Today’s edition of the International New York Times was not printed in Thailand because it includes an article that our locally contracted printer deemed too sensitive to print,” the newspaper said. AFP
3 foreigners, Filipina abducted from Philippine resort
Manila: Gunmen kidnapped two Canadian tourists, a Norwegian employee and a Filipina from a luxury resort island in the conflict-wracked southern Philippines, while other foreigners narrowly escaped, the police said on Tueday. AFP
Indian-origin astronomer-led team spots black hole
Washington: In a first, a team, including an Indian-origin astronomer, has found proof for a new intermediate-mass black hole about 5,000 times the mass of the Sun. The discovery, made by Dheeraj Pasham from University of Maryland and scientists from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Centre, adds one more candidate to the list of potential medium-sized black holes while strengthening the case that these objects do exist.
