International

Warsaw: External Affairs Minister (EAM) S Jaishankar Saturday paid his respects at the Kolhapur Memorial in Warsaw, commemorating India’s humanitarian gesture of providing refuge to around 5,000 Polish women and children during the Second World War. Quoting the inscription at the memorial, which reads, “Dispersed...

Kathmandu: A Nepali woman and a Chinese national were rescued alive from two separate flood-affected areas Saturday, 11 days after deadly floods struck areas along the Bhotekoshi and Trishuli river corridors in Nepal, the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) said. A 64-year-old woman, Chandrika Shrestha, was...

United Nations: India has voted in favour of a UN General Assembly resolution aimed at correcting the world map to promote a more accurate representation of continental landmasses. The 193-member UN General Assembly Friday overwhelmingly adopted the resolution 'Correct the map rebalancing global cartographic representation...

Kathmandu: The Indian tunnel rescue team, which is continuing to work alongside the Nepalese Army, has made a temporary track inside the Chilime tunnel in flood-hit Rasuwa district to allow more heavy equipment to reach the affected areas, authorities said Saturday. The teams also dug...

Washington: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has widened a process allowing certain US-born children of foreign government employees to register as lawful permanent residents, while acknowledging that a federal court injunction limits implementation of the new rule. The interim final rule applies when neither...

Washington: Indian American Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi has demanded that President Donald Trump disclose whether he, his family, political allies or major donors stand to financially benefit from his administration’s Venezuela oil agreement before substantial US taxpayer resources are committed. Krishnamoorthi, a Democrat from Illinois and...

Kathmandu: The death toll from last week’s devastating floods in Nepal has crossed 1,300, as piles of dead bodies collected in different districts continue to pile up. According to the latest data released by the Nepal Police, as many as 1,344 bodies swept away by...

Kathmandu: The risk posed by a landslide that partially obstructed the Chameliya River in western Nepal’s Darchula district Friday has subsided after the river gradually washed away the landslide debris, a senior local official said. The Chameliya River, a tributary of the Mahakali River, which...

New Delhi: Two hundred seventy-five Indians remained missing while 166 others were rescued following the devastating flash floods along the Nepal-Tibet border, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said Friday. It said that 1,907 Indian nationals have safely crossed over to Nepal from China. MEA...

Abu Dhabi: Chief of the Air Staff (CAS) Air Chief Marshal AP Singh Friday explored avenues to strengthen India-UAE cooperation in military and defence fields during his meeting with Major General Staff Rashid Mohammed Al Shamsi, Commander of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Air Force...