New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Thursday discussed with a group of senior ministers the prevailing geo-political situation in West Asia and measures to keep supply chains uninterrupted despite conflicts surrounding the Strait of Hormuz, the Black Sea, the Red Sea, and the Gulf of...
Beijing: China Thursday said it supports India to make this year's BRICS summit a "full success" but remained evasive about President Xi Jinping's attendance. "BRICS is an important platform for cooperation among emerging markets and developing countries", Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning told a...
Kathmandu: As clashes between Hindu and Muslim communities in the Kaptanganj area of Sunsari district threatened to spread to other parts of southern Madhesh province, the District Administration Office (DAO) of Siraha on Thursday imposed an indefinite curfew in parts of the district. The curfew...
Peshawar: Nine security officials and 15 militants were killed while several others sustained injuries in an operation in northwest Pakistan, police said Thursday. The operation was launched in retaliation for an attack on a police check post Wednesday in Hangu district of the restive Khyber...
London: Several British parliamentarians expressed grave concern over the escalating unrest in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), where over 40 civilians were killed and dozens critically injured in a brutal crackdown by Pakistani security forces. British Labour Party MP Liam Byrne said that reports of live fire...
Washington: Former top US infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci repeatedly invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination before a sharply divided Senate committee, as Republican lawmakers revived allegations over US-funded coronavirus research at China's Wuhan Institute of Virology and sought answers on the origins of...
Cairo: Jordan's air defences shot down five missiles launched from Iran Thursday morning, the spokesman for the country's armed forces said, according to Jordan's state-run Petra news agency. The news agency said no casualties were reported. The interceptions come after the US military said it...
Washington: The United States launched a new wave of military strikes against Iran in retaliation for what American officials described as an attempted Iranian attack on US forces in the Middle East, marking another sharp escalation in the months-long conflict. The US Central Command (CENTCOM)...
New Delhi: Indian travellers can now use the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) to make online bookings for At the Top, Burj Khalifa, with the iconic attraction becoming the first in the UAE to accept the payment system for e-commerce transactions, NPCI International Payments Limited (NIPL)...
Kumamoto (Japan): Soldiers and emergency workers combed through a badly damaged shopping mall and collapsed houses looking for trapped survivors Wednesday after a powerful earthquake that killed at least 18 people, including a foreigner, in southwestern Japan. The magnitude 7.1 earthquake that hit a day...
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A debate is spreading across India. The Cockroach students movement recently succeeded within a few days at forcing change that...
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Better late than never. Two days after the resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, the Supreme Court has stated...
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