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Washington: Secretary of State Marco Rubio is in France to meet his Group of Seven counterparts Friday after President Donald Trump attacked NATO countries over a reluctance or refusal to take part in the Iran war, a conflict that some of America's closest allies have...

Kathmandu: Balendra Shah, the parliamentary party leader of the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP), has been appointed as the new Prime Minister of Nepal. President Ram Chandra Poudel Friday appointed former Kathmandu Metropolitan City mayor Shah—popularly known as Balen—to the post as per Article 76(1) of...

Paris: The West Asia crisis and its consequences figured prominently during a conversation between External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and his Canadian counterpart Anita Anand on the margins of a G7 meeting in France. Jaishankar arrived here Thursday for the G7 Foreign Ministers' Meeting. On...

New Delhi: Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri Friday clarified that rumours of a nationwide lockdown are entirely false, stating that no such proposal is currently under consideration by the government. The clarification aims to dispel public concerns and provide accurate information regarding any possibility of...

New York: With the world in the throes of an energy crisis from the partial closure of the Strait of Hormuz, President Donald Trump warned Thursday that time was running out for Tehran to “get serious” about a deal.​ Iran responded to the United States'...

New Delhi: India Thursday called upon WTO members to work towards making the WTO's dispute settlement system fully functional, as the current dysfunctional mechanism has deprived countries of receiving effective redressal. On the first day of the World Trade Organisation's (WTO) 14th ministerial conference (MC14)...

Kabul: Dozens of people were buried in a Kabul cemetery Thursday in the second mass funeral of victims killed in an airstrike that hit a drug rehabilitation centre in the Afghan capital earlier this month. Bulldozers opened a large pit into which individual graves were...

Raipur: The number of armed Maoist cadres in the Bastar region of Chhattisgarh has declined sharply by over 5,500 in recent years, marking a major success in the fight against Left-Wing Extremism. Deputy Chief Minister and Home Minister Vijay Sharma said this significant reduction has...

Dhaka: At least 24 people were killed, and several others remain missing after a bus plunged into a river in Bangladesh while attempting to board a transport ferry, officials said Thursday. The accident occurred in the southwestern district of Rajbari at the Dauladia terminal when...

Rayavaram (Andhra Pradesh): At least 13 people were killed and 22 were injured after a private travel bus collided with a tipper and caught fire here in Markapuram district Thursday, police said. While earlier estimates from District Superintendent of Police V Harshavardhan Raju suggested 14 fatalities,...