Netanyahu calls Modi ‘personal friend’, envisions regional alliance including India

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Jerusalem: Describing India as a global power and its Prime Minister Narendra Modi as a personal friend, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Sunday talked about his vision of a hexagon of alliances in and around the region that will include India. This week, expression will be given to the special relationship that has been forged over recent years between Israel and the global power that is India, and between me and...

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Israeli Opposition raises objections over Modi’s Knesset address

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Jerusalem: Prime Minister Narendra Modi's expected visit here is getting entangled in Israel's domestic politics, with Opposition leader Yair Lapid threatening to boycott his parliamentary address unless the Supreme Court chief is invited for it, as per convention. Modi is expected to arrive in Israel February 25 for a two-day visit, during which he is likely to address the Knesset (Israeli parliament) and meet Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Isaac...

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PM Modi slams ‘shirtless protest’ at AI summit, calls Congress ‘ideologically bankrupt’

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Meerut: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Sunday came down heavily on Congress over its youth wing's recent shirtless protest at the India-AI Impact Summit 2026 and said that the demonstration showed that the "oldest party of the country has become ideologically bankrupt". This came just days after the Youth Congress members carried out a protest inside New Delhi's Bharat Mandapam during the high-profile India-AI Impact Summit, raising slogans against Prime Minister Narendra...

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Jammu and Kashmir: Three JeM terrorists killed in encounter with security forces in Kishtwar

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Jammu: Three members of the Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) terror outfit were killed in an encounter with security forces in Jammu and Kashmir's Kishtwar district Sunday, officials said. The bodies of all the slain terrorists were charred beyond recognition as the mud house they were hiding in caught fire during the gunfight, they said, adding that preliminary assessments by security agencies suggest that one of the deceased is Saifullah, a notorious JeM...

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Security forces gun down two Maoists in Kandhamal forest

Berhampur: At least two Maoists were killed in an encounter with security forces in a forest along the Ganjam-Kandhamal border in Odisha Sunday, a police officer said. The encounter took place in Karada forest area within the jurisdiction of Raikia police station in Kandhamal district, SP Harisha BC said. The deceased have been identified as Jagesh, an...

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Two trampled to death by wild elephant in Ganjam

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Israeli Opposition raises objections over Modi’s Knesset address

Jerusalem: Prime Minister Narendra Modi's expected visit here is getting entangled in Israel's domestic politics, with Opposition leader Yair Lapid threatening to boycott his parliamentary address unless the Supreme Court chief is invited for it, as per convention. Modi is expected to arrive in Israel February 25 for a two-day visit, during which he is likely to...

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Canadian PhD scholar goes missing in Lahore, kidnapping case filed

Lahore: A Canadian national who came to Pakistan this month to conduct doctoral research on 'anti-imperialist politics' has gone missing in Lahore city, police said Sunday. Lahore police have registered a kidnapping case against unidentified suspects on the complaint of Yousuf Rashid, a friend of Canadian citizen Hamza Ahmad Khan. Khan had arrived in Pakistan to work...

 

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