Kolkata: Alleging that the Mamata Banerjee government in West Bengal was abetting infiltration of Bangladeshis for electoral benefit, Union Home Minister Amit Shah Tuesday asserted that the BJP will drive out illegal immigrants once it comes to power in the state. Addressing a press conference...
Dhaka: Khaleda Zia's funeral will be held Wednesday, as Bangladesh Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus Tuesday announced a three-day state mourning and a one-day general holiday following the death of the former Prime Minister. In a televised address to the nation, Yunus urged people to maintain...
Dubai: Saudi Arabia bombed Yemen's port city of Mukalla Tuesday over what it described as a shipment of weapons for a separatist force there that arrived from the United Arab Emirates. The UAE did not immediately acknowledge the strike. The attack signals a new escalation...
Almora: At least seven people were killed after a bus carrying around 18 passengers lost control and plunged into a deep ravine on the Bhikiyasain-Vinayak road in Uttarakhand's Almora district Tuesday morning, officials said. According to official sources, the accident took place near Shilapani on...
New Delhi: The NHRC has sent a notice to the Dehradun district magistrate and the SSP over the allegedly racially charged killing of a student from Tripura in the Uttarakhand capital. The National Human Rights Commission has directed the Dehradun authorities to investigate the allegations...
Florida (US): President Donald Trump warned Iran against reconstituting its nuclear program Monday as he welcomed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to his home in Florida for wide-ranging talks. The warning comes after Trump has insisted that Tehran's nuclear capabilities were “completely and fully obliterated”...
Mumbai: Four people, including three women, died and nine were injured after a reversing bus of Mumbai's civic-run transport undertaking BEST knocked down pedestrians Monday night, a police official said. The incident took place around 10 pm at the busy Station Road in suburban Bhandup...
Moscow: Russia Monday claimed that 91 long-range Ukrainian drones attempted to attack President Vladimir Putin's country residence in Novgorod region, north of Moscow. In a televised statement, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that the drone attack in the intervening night of Sunday and Monday failed...
New Delhi: India Monday said Pakistan's "horrific and systemic victimisation" of minorities of various faiths is a well-established fact and no amount of "finger pointing" will "obfuscate" it. New Delhi said this while strongly trashing Pakistan's comments on the condition of minorities in India. "We...
Beijing: China Monday launched massive military drills in the middle areas of the Taiwan Strait as a “punitive and deterrent” action against Taiwan's separatist forces, days after the US announced a record USD 11.1 billion arms sales to Taipei. The two drills, in which a...
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