International

Auckland: Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal Wednesday said India consistently protects the interests of vulnerable sectors like dairy and MSMEs in free trade agreements. He also said that significant progress has been made in the negotiations of the proposed trade agreement with New Zealand....

Quetta: Armed men attacked and set fire to a police station in Kachhi district of Pakistan's Balochistan while unidentified men attacked a check post with hand grenades in the Western Bypass area of Balochistan's capital Quetta, local media reported Wednesday. According to officials, around two...

Louisville(US): A viral video claiming to show the fiery crash of a UPS cargo plane in Louisville, Kentucky (US), has surfaced on social media, capturing what appears to be the aircraft erupting into a massive fireball shortly after takeoff. The video, purportedly filmed using the...

Louisville: A large UPS cargo plane with three people aboard crashed and exploded Tuesday while taking off from an airport in Louisville, Kentucky, leaving at least three people dead and 11 injured. Those numbers are expected to grow, Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear said. The plane...

Manila: Typhoon Kalmaegi has left at least 66 people dead with 26 others missing in the central Philippines, many in widespread flooding that trapped people on their roofs and swept away scores of cars in a hard-hit province still recovering from a deadly earthquake, officials...

Washington: The White House has said that US President Donald Trump has great respect for Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and that the two leaders speak “pretty frequently.” The White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, while responding to a question on India-US ties Tuesday, said that...

Washington: In a landmark evening for the South Asian diaspora, three prominent candidates of Indian and broader South Asian heritage claimed resounding victories in high-stakes US elections, underscoring the community's growing political clout. From New York to Virginia and Ohio, three Indian-origin politicians, Zohran Mamdani,...

New York: New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani declared that his victory toppled a “political dynasty”, as he quoted the words of former Indian prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru that with his win, the city has “stepped out from the old into the new”. Mamdani scripted...

New York: Zohran Mamdani, the 34-year-old Indian-origin democratic socialist lawmaker, pulled off a stunning victory in the fiercely contested New York City mayoral elections, becoming the first South Asian and Muslim to be elected to sit at the helm of the largest city in the...

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government Tuesday urged the Ministry of External Affairs to take immediate steps for the safe release of a man from the state who has been taken hostage by a group involved in Sudan's ongoing civil war. The state government wrote to the...