International

Beirut: An Israeli strike Wednesday hit a car on a busy highway just south of Beirut, hours before the second day of talks between Lebanon and Israel in Washington is set to take place. The strike in Khaldeh came without warning, and it was not...

New Delhi: Bangladesh’s graduate unemployment rate is reported to be three times higher, at 13.5 per cent in 2024, than the overall rate of unemployment. Youth unemployment (age 15-29 years) is about 10 per cent, more than double the overall unemployment rate at under five...

Dubai: US military said that Iranian missiles fired at Kuwait and Bahrain failed or were shot down, and that the US launched strikes on an Iran facility in response. US Central Command said the strikes were on an Iranian military ground control station on Qeshm...

Washington: US Trade Representative has proposed slapping 12.5 per cent additional duties on 54 countries, including India, for “failing to prohibit the import of goods produced with forced labour”. The action follows investigations launched against 60 countries over what the USTR described as their “failure”...

United Nations: Bangladesh's Foreign Minister Khalilur Rahman was Tuesday elected as the President of the 81st session of the UN General Assembly in a closely-contested election. Rahman and Cyprus' Special Envoy for Multilateralism Andreas Kakouris were vying to lead the 193-member General Assembly in its...

California: Hackers have reportedly manipulated Meta's AI-powered support chatbot to gain control of several prominent Instagram accounts, according to cybersecurity researchers. Among the accounts said to have been compromised in recent days are a former White House Instagram account from the Obama administration, which still...

New Delhi: India Tuesday categorically rejected any role for third parties to resolve its boundary row with Nepal, days after Nepalese Prime Minister Balendra Shah sought involvement of China and the UK to address the long-standing dispute. External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said both...

Dubai: Iran stopped communicating with mediators after Israel threatened to bomb Beirut as it continues fighting the Iranian-backed Lebanese militia Hezbollah, two semiofficial Iranian news agencies reported. The reports by the Fars and Tasnim news agencies, both believed to be close to Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary...

Berlin/New Delhi: The German Embassy in New Delhi Tuesday announced that Indian nationals will no longer require a transit visa when travelling to another country with a layover at a German airport. “The lifting of the so-called airport transit visa requirement for Indian citizens was...

New Delhi: Venezuela's Acting President Delcy Rodriguez will travel to India for a working visit from June 3-7 and will meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi, to discuss bilateral ties, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) announced Tuesday. Addressing a weekly media briefing in New Delhi...