India’s southern state of Telangana has sacked over 48,000 employees and workers for the regional transport department over an indefinite strike, officials and news reports said on Monday. The striking workers of Telangana State Road Transport Corporation had refused to end their two-day protest by the government deadline on Saturday, after which authorities announced the […]

Indonesia has sunk 40 foreign boats in the past two days as part of a crackdown on illegal fishing, the country’s fisheries ministry said on Monday. The boats mostly from Vietnam were scuttled on Sunday and Monday in four locations, the Marine Resources and Fisheries Ministry said in a statement. The boat owners were found […]

Spanish police officers were rescued by drug traffickers they were chasing after their boats collided off the coast of Malaga, authorities have said. Three Guardia Civil officers fell into the Mediterranean on Friday morning after their boat collided with the vessel they were pursuing as part of an anti-drug trafficking operation. A helicopter of the […]

Police Officials on Monday in Nepal said it has arrested the former parliamentary speaker over rape allegations by a government worker. Krishna Mahara, the speaker of  Nepal’s House of Representatives, resigned from his job after the woman accused him of sexually assaulting her at her apartment in Kathmandu last week. “We received a complaint of […]

UK and EU negotiators will try again on Monday to make headway on Brexit, while Boris Johnson’s team go into diplomatic overdrive to try and force a compromise from Brussels on the British government’s proposals. The UK’s chief Brexit official David Frost is due in Brussels, while Brexit minister Steve Barclay visits the Netherlands. On […]