While addressing a conference on connectivity and trade relations between China and India on Wednesday Zhanwu said “We are looking forward to bullet trains from Kolkata to Kunming in southwestern China. The whole of Asia will be connected,” The train will pass through other neighboring countries like Myanmar and Bangladesh. "With joint efforts of India and China, a high-speed rail link could be established between the two cities," Zhanwu said at a conference here. He further said that "It will only take a few hours to reach Kolkata from Kunming if the rail ... Read More

Published reports say Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is planning to testify before Congress about how his company collects and uses peoples data. Citing unnamed sources, CNN said in a report Tuesday that Zuckerberg has come to terms with the fact that he will have to testify in a matter of weeks. A Facebook representative said the company has received invitations to appear before congress and is talking to legislators but would not confirm Zuckerbergs attendance. Zuckerberg said last week in a CNN interview that he would be happy to testify if he is the right person to do it. The company i ... Read More

India on Wednesday strongly condemned the missile attacks on Saudi Arabia earlier this week targeting capital Riyadh and other cities by Houthi militias in Yemen. We strongly condemn the renewed missile attacks targeting civilian areas in the direction of Riyadh and other cities of Saudi Arabia, external affairs ministry spokesperson Raveesh Kumar said in response to media queries. We are deeply concerned about the escalating situation threatening the lives of innocent civilians, he said.We reiterate our resolve to fight terrorism and violence in all its forms. Yemeni Houthi rebels fired se ... Read More

Six years after inheriting power from his father, Kim Jong Un has established his authority domestically, taken North Korea to unprecedented nuclear heights and is now looking to flex his muscles abroad. Kims shock visit to Beijing traditionally Pyongyangs strongest backer, although the relationship has soured during his time in power is the first time he is known to have set foot outside the impoverished North since he assumed the leadership. But Kim, who is in his mid-thirties, has repeatedly shown an ability to stamp an outsized footprint on the global stage without ever leaving ho ... Read More

Saudi forces intercepted seven Yemeni rebel missiles on Sunday, including over the capital Riyadh, in a deadly escalation on the eve of the third anniversary of the Saudi-led coalition’s intervention in Yemen. One Egyptian was killed and two of his countrymen were wounded by falling shrapnel in Riyadh, authorities said, with residents reporting loud explosions and bright flashes in the sky shortly before midnight. The Iran-aligned Huthi rebels fired three missiles at Riyadh and four others at the southern cities of Khamis Mushait, Jizan and Najran, with the coalition saying they all ... Read More

It is early afternoon on a spring day in 1944. On a French farm, 20 miles from the English Channel, two young brothers tend the cows — perhaps they goof off a bit — as their father brews beer. Then a plane falls from the sky. A P-47 Thunderbolt, an American fighter plane, has been hit by German fire. On the ground, the boys watch as the last moments of a desperate American pilot unfold. When the plane fell, there were still bullets exploding from the plane’s .50-caliber machines guns, recalls Marc Cooche. He was 12 then; at 86, he’s still haunted by memories of that afternoon. ... Read More