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Beijing: Iran will allow ships to pass through the Strait of Hormuz during the two-week ceasefire, but any decision to open the Strait entirely in future will depend on the results of the peace talks with the US, a senior Iranian diplomat said Wednesday. So...

Kathmandu: The Kathmandu District Court has reportedly issued an arrest warrant against former Nepali Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba and his wife, former Foreign Minister Arzu Rana Deuba, in connection with a money-laundering investigation. The Kathmandu Post reported that the arrest warrants were issued Tuesday...

Washington: The White House Wednesday said "nothing is final" over plans for in-person talks over Iran. In response to questions about whether US Vice President JD Vance would be participating in US-Iran talks expected to be held later this week in Pakistan, White House press...

Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court Wednesday granted conditional bail to multi-crore Saradha ponzi scam accused Sudipta Sen in the last two of the 300-odd criminal cases against him, paving the way for his release from jail after 13 years. A division bench of the high...

Islamabad: Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has confirmed Tehran's participation in Pakistan-facilitated peace talks with the US in Islamabad, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said Wednesday. Shehbaz said he held a warm and substantive telephone conversation with President Pezeshkian, hours after the US and Iran agreed on...

Tehran: An oil refinery on Iran's Lavan Island came under attack Wednesday hours after a ceasefire in the war was announced, Iranian state television reported. The report said that firefighters were working to contain the blaze, but no one had been hurt.   Orissa POST...

New Delhi: Supreme Court Wednesday observed that it has the right and jurisdiction to hold what is a superstitious practice in a religion. This came in response to the Centre's submission that a secular court cannot decide the issue as judges are experts in the...

New Delhi: The meeting between a Trinamool Congress delegation and the full bench of the Election Commission Wednesday culminated on an acrimonious note, with the TMC saying the panel's chief asked them to "get lost" at the end of the seven-minute meeting, while the EC...

Mumbai: The Reserve Bank Wednesday expectedly kept interest rates unchanged amid hopes of a global recovery on the back of the ceasefire in the six-week-long US/Israel-Iran conflict. The policy decision comes as a month and a-half-long West Asia conflict has disrupted energy supplies, shot up...

Washington: US President Donald Trump in a social media post declared the ceasefire agreement a "big day for World Peace" and that the US "will be helping with the traffic buildup in the Strait of Hormuz." "There will be lots of positive action!" Trump predicted...