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Kathmandu: Nepal police have busted an online gambling racket involving more than 3 billion rupees and arrested 24 people, including ten Indian nationals. According to Kaji Kumar Acharya, Superintendent of Police of Kathmandu Valley Crime Investigation Office, a special team of police based on a...

Kathmandu: Nepal police Sunday arrested four people, including an Indian national, in Parsa district for forcing women working in their hotel and guesthouse into prostitution. Acting on a tipoff, a special team raided a hotel and a guesthouse separately in Birgunj metropolitan city and arrested...

Johannesburg: Launching the first phase of the Bochasanwasi Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha Multi-Cultural Centre and Temple, Deputy President Paul Mashatile said BAPS's principles resonate with South Africa's national ethos of Ubuntu. Lauding the local Hindu community, Mashatile said: “We should reflect on the role that...

Dubai: Syria's interim president made his first trip abroad Sunday, travelling to Saudi Arabia in a move likely trying to signal Damascus' shift away from Iran as its main regional ally. Ahmad al-Sharaa, who was once aligned with al-Qaida, landed in Riyadh alongside his government's...

Islamabad: Pakistan failed to kick-start economic growth in the first seven months of the current fiscal year despite a massive 10 per cent reduction in the interest rate by the central bank during this period, according to a media report. The State Bank of Bank...

United Nations: India has experienced “remarkable transformation” in the last decade, UN General Assembly President Philemon Yang has said, underlining that his upcoming visit to the country will allow him to see how digital and technological innovation has “fuelled this change”. Yang will visit India...

Islamabad: Pakistan Army Chief General Asim Munir has vowed to hunt down the “frenemies” acting as terrorist proxies targeting the country. Munir's comments came as he visited Quetta Saturday following the killing of 18 soldiers during clashes with terrorists in Balochistan's Kalat district. Twenty-three terrorists...

Kyiv: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Saturday that excluding his country from talks between the US and Russia about the war in Ukraine would be “very dangerous" and asked for more discussions between Kyiv and Washington to develop a plan for a ceasefire. Speaking in...

Palm Beach: President Donald Trump Saturday signed an order to impose stiff tariffs on imports from Mexico, Canada and China, drawing swift retaliation from the country's North American neighbours in an emerging trade war. The Republican president posted on social media that the tariffs were...

Kabul: The watchdog for US assistance to Afghanistan said the Taliban have no legal right to billions of dollars in funding set aside for the country because they are not recognised as its government and are under sanctions. In its latest report issued Friday, the...