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Colombo: Sri Lanka's former first lady Shiranthi Rajapaksa was arrested Wednesday for alleged fraud involving her NGO Sirliya Saviya's bank account. Officers of the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption (CIABOC) arrested the wife of former Sri Lanka president Mahinda Rajapaksa at their...

Moscow: A Liberia-flagged vessel carrying oil, with a crew of 23 Indian nationals, came under attack by drone boats off Russia's Black Sea coast, Russian authorities said. "The crew has been saved and evacuated to shore," a spokesman for the Russian transport ministry told state-run...

Accra: India and Ghana have discussed multilateral cooperation and Delhi's deepening engagement with the African Union and ECOWAS (Economic Community of West African States) as External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar met Ghanaian counterpart Sam Okudzeto Ablakwa. Jaishankar, who arrived in Ghana on Tuesday on the...

United Nations: Rejecting the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation's remarks regarding Jammu and Kashmir and Delhi's actions against terror infrastructure in Pakistan, India said the group is "unable to distinguish between the victim and perpetrator". Lok Sabha MP from West Tripura Biplab Kumar Deb delivered India's...

Dubai: Indian Captain Smit Machchhar is making "steady progress" and is "regaining his health", the Indian Embassy in the UAE said Tuesday. On flydubai flight FZ1073 Wednesday, Machchhar was attacked by his co-pilot, an Omani citizen, with a crash axe, typically kept in the cockpit...

Chicago: It's official Skydance-owned Paramount has closed its USD 81 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery. The companies completed the deal Tuesday, ushering in a new Hollywood giant with the now shorter Skydance nametag. The merger brings two of America's oldest moviemaking studios together. And...

Karachi: More than a month after the alleged abduction, forcible conversion and marriage of two Hindu girls, police in Pakistan's Sindh province registered an FIR against two accused Tuesday. The accused allegedly abducted the sisters August 29 from near their home in the Tando Allahyar...

Kyiv: Russian air defences intercepted nearly 900 Ukrainian drones overnight over multiple regions of the country, as well as the occupied Crimean Peninsula and the Sea of Azov, the Defence Ministry in Moscow said Tuesday. Unconfirmed media reports said a major fuel depot in the...

Stockholm: Francis Halzen won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for his contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and his discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced the award in Stockholm. The prize money this year is 12...

Dhaka: Bangladesh's capital, Dhaka, was ranked first among the world's most polluted cities Tuesday, with an Air Quality Index (AQI) of 213 at 11:10 a.m. (local time), local media reported. According to the AQI scale, the air quality in Dhaka was labelled as "very unhealthy",...