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Washington, Sept 14: A Redmond-based information technology staffing company was asked to pay over USD 300,000 to its 12 H-1B employees for paying them far below their salary and has been imposed a penalty of over USD 45,000, a media report said on Thursday. The US Department of Labour Wage and Hour Division (WHD) during the investigation found the company, which has offices in Bengaluru and

Islamabad, Sept 13: The Prime Minister House in Islamabad will be turned into a postgraduate institution, said Pakistan's education minister Shafqat Mehmood on Thursday. Addressing the media, Mehmood was quoted by Geo News as saying that the people of the country were annoyed by the previous governments' "royal standards" of living and thus Prime Minister Imran Khan">Imran Khan has decided that he

Hanoi, Sep 13: Myanmar's handling of its Rohingya Muslims, 700,000 of whom have fled to Bangladesh amid a brutal counterinsurgency campaign, could have been handled better, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and leader Aung San Suu Kyi said Thursday. Myanmar is facing international pressure over atrocities allegedly committed by its military in the crackdown that followed August 2017 attacks by Rohingya

Washington, Sept 13: India has not been able to secure membership of the Nuclear Suppliers Group because of China's veto, a senior Trump Administration official said on Thursday asserting that the US will continue to advocate for New Delhi's membership in the elite grouping as it meets all the criteria. India has been seeking entry into the 48-member elite nuclear club, which controls nuclear

Hanoi, Sept 13: Myanmar's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi said on Thursday that two Reuters journalists jailed for investigating a massacre in Rakhine state were not convicted because they were journalists but because they broke the law. Wa Lone, 32, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 28, were each imprisoned for seven years last week for breaching the country's hardline Official Secrets Act while reporting

Geneva, Sept 13: The Myanmar Government granted permission to the United Nations inspection teams to assess dozens villages and townships in the country's Rakhine State, that were home to hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims last year. A total of four teams from the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and UN Development Program (UNDP) will spend two weeks in the northern state where the Rohingya

London, Sept 12: Begum Kulsoom, the wife of Pakistan's jailed former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, died today in London after a long battle with cancer, her family said. Begum Kulsoom, who was under treatment at London's Harley Street Clinic since June 2014, was placed on life support earlier Tuesday after her health deteriorated, Geo TV reported. The health of the 68-year-old began deteriorating

Washington, Sept 12: US President Donald Trump has identified India along with 21 other countries as among the major illicit drug producing or transit nations. Other Asian countries identified as major drug transit or major illicit drug producing countries are Afghanistan, Pakistan and Myanmar. The Bahamas, Belize, Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala

Washington, Sep 11: The United States threatened on Monday to arrest and sanction judges and other officials of the International Criminal Court if it moves to charge any American who served in Afghanistan with war crimes. White House national security advisor John Bolton called the Hague-based rights body "unaccountable" and "outright dangerous" to the United States, Israel and other allies, and

Dubai, Sept 9: The collapse of UN efforts to organise peace talks between the Yemeni government and rebels is likely to lead to an escalation in the country's war, analysts say. Long-awaited talks between the Saudi-backed government and Huthi rebels linked to Iran were set to start Thursday but failed to take place. The Huthis, armed ribesmen from northern Yemen, refused to leave Sanaa to attend