Mahasamund (Chhattisgarh)/Bolangir: Fifteen Naxalites, including Special Zonal Committee-level member Vikas, surrendered before security personnel in Chhattisgarh’s Mahasamund district Sunday, Deputy Chief Minister Vijay Sharma said. According to police, the surrendered cadres, including nine women, belonged to the Bolangir-Bargarh-Mahasamund division of Maoists and were active along the Chhattisgarh-Odisha border. Sharma, who holds the Home portfolio, termed the development...

Tehran: Hours after long-time Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was killed in a US-Israeli airstrike, Iran Sunday named Ayatollah Alireza Arafi as his interim successor. Ayatollah Khamenei, whose death in an attack on his residential compound in Tehran was announced by Iran, had been the Supreme Leader since 1989 after the passing away of the 1979 Iranian Islamic...

New Delhi: As many as 225 international flights were cancelled at Mumbai and Delhi airports Sunday due to operational disruptions in the wake of the US and Israel attacks on Iran and the subsequent closure of airspaces in the Gulf region. Of the 225 flights, 125 flights were cancelled at Mumbai airport and at least 100 flights...

Minneapolis: Barely an hour after the first US and Israeli missiles struck Iran, President Donald Trump made clear he hoped for regime change. "Now is the time to seize control of your destiny," he told the Iranian people in a video. "This is the moment for action. Do not let it pass." Doesn't sound complicated. After all,...

New Delhi: India is expected to face oil price volatility and broader macroeconomic effects from the escalating Iran crisis, analysts said, adding the country's oil supply chain does not yet face structural insecurity. Rising tensions around the Strait of Hormuz - through which a significant share of India's crude and LNG imports transit - have already pushed...

Tel Aviv: The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) Sunday said Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed inside his leadership compound in central Tehran, asserting that the operation marked the end of what it described as a decades-long chapter of terror directed against Israel. Khamenei was killed in an epochal attack by the US and Israel, marking...

New Delhi: Zimbabwe skipper Sikandar Raza won the toss and elected to bat against South Africa in their last Super Eights match Sunday. For Zimbabwe, pacer Richard Ngarava will miss out with a lower back injury. South Africa has made three changes, bringing in Kewna Maphaka, Anrich Nortje and George Linde. Teams: Zimbabwe, Tadiwanashe Marumani (wk), Brian...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi has discussed with the Ministry of External Affairs the safe return of people of the state residing or stranded in West Asia, a minister said Sunday. Replying to a media query on the rescue of Odia people from the conflict-hit zone, Odisha Law Minister Prithviraj Harichandan said, "Our chief minister...

Dubai: A massive explosion struck Iran's capital Sunday as the Israeli military said it was targeting the "heart" of the city. The blast sent a huge plume of smoke into the sky and shook the ground. It wasn't immediately clear what the target was. The blast appeared centred in a neighbourhood home to the country's police headquarters...

Karachi: At least 10 persons were killed and several injured Sunday after clashes broke out between police and protesters as they tried to storm the gates of the US Consulate in Pakistan's port city of Karachi. The clashes broke out following the killing of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Saturday in a joint US-Israeli air strike....