Tokyo: India's Ambassador-designate to Japan, Nagma Mallick, called on Japan's State Minister for Disaster Management Akama Jiro Monday, discussing cooperation in disaster risk reduction and disaster resilience. In a statement shared on X, the Indian Embassy in Japan stated, "Ambassador-designate Nagma M Mallick called on...
Dhaka: Unidentified gunmen Monday shot in the head a second leader of Bangladesh's violent student-led 2004 uprising in the country's southwestern Khulna city, days after the killing of prominent youth leader Sharif Osman Hadi. "The Khulna Division head of NCP (National Citizen Party) and central...
New Delhi: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) may cut the policy repo rate by 25 basis points to 5 per cent in its February monetary policy meeting given the RBI’s dovish guidance, a new report has said. The Union Bank of India (UBI) said...
Jakarta: A passenger bus crash killed at least 16 people on Indonesia's main island of Java just after midnight Monday, officials said. The bus carrying 34 people lost control on a toll road and struck a concrete barrier before rolling onto its side, said Budiono,...
Guwahatil: The Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) has decided to operate three pairs of special trains during the Christmas and New Year-2026 period to cater to the festive travel requirement, officials said on Sunday. NFR's Chief Public Relations Officer (CPRO) Kapinjal Kishore Sharma said that the...
Dhaka: Journalists in Bangladesh held protests against arson attacks and vandalism at the offices of media outlets Prothom Alo and The Daily Star, calling for immediate arrest and punishment for those involved in the attack. They warned that continued impunity would pose a threat to...
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court is slated to hear Monday a criminal revision petition filed by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) challenging a trial court order that refused to take cognisance of its money laundering complaint against Congress Parliamentary Party Chairperson Sonia Gandhi, Leader of...
Raipur: In a significant blow to Maoist activities, security forces have successfully thwarted a deadly Maoist conspiracy by recovering a large cache of explosives and weapons from a hideout in the remote Dadipani hilly area under the Mainpur police station in Chhattisgarh's Gariyaband district. The...
New Delhi/Kolkata: Asserting that 90 per cent of the Aravalli region will remain protected, the Centre Sunday rejected claims that the new definition of the Aravalli range will allow large-scale mining and cited a Supreme Court-ordered freeze on new mining leases in the region. It...
Chennai: ISRO's upcoming LVM3 M6 mission will carry the BlueBird Block-2 satellite into orbit December 24, as part of a commercial deal with US-based AST SpaceMobile. The historic mission will deploy the next-generation communication satellite designed to provide high-speed cellular broadband directly to smartphones worldwide....
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India is one of 60 countries the US has invited to join President Donald Trump’s controversial “Board of Peace” initiative...
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The world has been shocked by the way the medal of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize – one of the...
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The prospects of Turkey joining a Saudi Arabia–Pakistan security arrangement that mirrors NATO’s collective defence principle could be a cause...
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