Mumbai: Global oil prices jumped to cross $100 per barrel Thursday after Iran said it was not engaged in direct negotiations with the US to end the war. Brent crude futures rose 1.21 per cent to $103.46 per barrel while US West Texas Intermediate (WTI)...
Beirut: Israeli strikes have killed 1,094 people in Lebanon since war began, the Lebanese Health Ministry said Wednesday. A total of 22 people had been killed over the past 24 hours. At least 121 children and 81 women were among the dead in Lebanon, the...
New Delhi: Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri met visiting US Under Secretary of War Elbridge Colby on the sidelines of the India–US Defence Policy Group meeting in New Delhi Wednesday, discussing strengthening defence cooperation and strategic partnership. "Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri met US Under Secretary of...
New Delhi: Amid the West Asia conflict, a total of 1,043 Indian nationals, including 717 students, have crossed out of Iran with the assistance of the mission in Tehran, the Ministry of External Affairs said Wednesday. At an inter-ministerial briefing here on the West Asia...
New Delhi: Israel does not place trust in countries with which it lacks diplomatic relations, Israeli Ambassador to India Reuven Azar said, responding to a question on whether Tel Aviv trusts Pakistan in the context of the ongoing Iran conflict and related diplomatic efforts. In...
Dubai: An Iranian military spokesperson mocked US attempts at a ceasefire deal Wednesday, insisting that the Americans were only negotiating with themselves. Lt. Col. Ebrahim Zolfaghari, a spokesperson for the Iranian military's Khatam Al-Anbiya Central Headquarters, made the statement in a prerecorded video aired on...
Dubai: The Trump administration offered a 15-point ceasefire plan to Iran, a person briefed on the contours of the proposal said late Tuesday, even as the US military prepared to send at least 1,000 more troops to supplement some 50,000 troops already in the Mideast....
New Delhi: The government will hold an all-party meeting Wednesday to brief political leaders on the evolving crisis in West Asia, amid rising concerns over its economic and security implications for India. The meeting, scheduled for 5 pm inside the Parliament complex, will be chaired...
Washington: The Pentagon declared cybersecurity and digital networks as central to modern warfare, telling lawmakers that its “digital backbone” is now a “weapon system” critical to how US forces fight, decide, and win future conflicts. At a Senate Armed Services cyber subcommittee hearing, Department of...
Washington: US lawmakers warned of mounting pressure on American weapons stockpiles and a rapidly deteriorating global nuclear landscape, as a Senate hearing exposed sharp concerns over the Trump administration’s war with Iran and the future of arms control. At a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing,...
The ongoing conflict between Iran and the US-Israel combine is beginning to tell a story far removed from the early...
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By Aakar Patel We are in the second month of what is settling in to become a long war and...
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By Dilip Cherian There’s a familiar outrage cycle in India: a project stalls, costs spiral, and we instinctively reach for...
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It is the fifth week running since US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu launched the war...
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