International

New Delhi: The India-Israel cooperation in agriculture has received a huge push with the announcement, during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Jerusalem last month, of setting up more Centres of Excellence as high-tech agricultural hubs and taking these further to the village level to...

Islamabad: Former Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chief secretary Arbab Shehzad Khan said that the Pakistan-Afghanistan peace jirga will be held in Peshawar March 31 to urge the leadership of the two nations to ease tensions and work towards peace, local media reported Sunday. While addressing a press...

Dubai: Iranian forces are waiting for the arrival of American troops on the ground to set them on fire and punish their regional partners forever, the country's parliament speaker, Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, said Sunday. Our firing continues. Our missiles are in place. Our determination and...

Kathmandu: Nepal's former Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli was remanded in judicial custody for five days by the Kathmandu District Court Sunday, even as protests continue to erupt in various parts of the country over the arrests. Oli and former home minister Ramesh Lekhak were...

Colombo: Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake Sunday thanked Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for sending an oil shipment to ease the fuel supply disruptions in the Island nation caused by the West Asia conflict. A shipment of 38,000 MT of fuel, comprising 20,000 MT...

Kathmandu: Nepal police Sunday arrested former energy minister and Nepali Congress leader Deepak Khadka in connection with a money laundering case, local media reported. The Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) of Nepal Police took Khadka into custody Sunday morning, The Himalayan quoted CIB spokesperson Shiva Kumar...

Tehran: Iran Sunday accused the United States and Israel of deliberately targeting its academic institutions, alleging that strikes on universities such as Isfahan University of Technology and Tehran University of Science and Technology were part of a broader attempt to weaken the country's scientific and...

Seoul: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un observed a test of a high-thrust, solid-fuel engine test and hailed it as a development to boost the country's strategic military capability, state media reported Sunday. The test likely indicates Kim is intent on enlarging and modernising an...

Dubai: Iranian-backed Houthi rebels entered the month-old war in the Middle East  Saturday, claiming two missile launches at Israel. About 2,500 US Marines arrived in the region. And Pakistan's government said that regional powers plan to meet Sunday to discuss how to end the fighting....

Beirut: An Israeli airstrike on southern Lebanon Saturday killed three journalists who were covering the latest Israel-Hezbollah war, their TV stations said. Hezbollah's al-Manar TV said that its longtime correspondent Ali Shoeib was killed Saturday in southern Lebanon. The Israeli military said that it had...