International

Colombo: Nearly 300,000 children are among the 1.4 million affected by Cyclone Ditwah, UNICEF here said today. Sri Lanka has been grappling with widespread flooding, landslides and infrastructure collapse triggered by Cyclone Ditwah, leaving several districts isolated and severely straining the country's disaster-response capacity. As...

Colombo: India has taken a leading role in immediate emergency response efforts in the aftermath of Cyclone Ditwah, which has killed more than 400 people and caused widespread devastation, President Anura Kumara Dissanayake's office said Tuesday. “Prime Minister Narendra Modi conveyed heartfelt condolences to President...

Peshawar:  At least four persons, including the North Waziristan Assistant Commissioner and two policemen, were killed when militants ambushed his vehicle in Pakistan's northwestern Province Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Tuesday, police said. The attack in the Bannu district of the province targeted a vehicle of Shah Waliullah,...

New Delhi: Moscow is fully aware of New Delhi's concerns about the massive trade deficit, and Russia is working with India to fix "the problem", Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Tuesday. Addressing a video-streamed press conference for Indian journalists, Peskov spoke on a range of...

New Delhi: External Affairs Minister (EAM) S Jaishankar Tuesday extended greetings to people of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on their National Day, expressing New Delhi's commitment to strengthening Comprehensive Strategic Partnership and further strengthening commercial, cultural and people-to-people ties. In a statement shared on...

New Delhi: Pakistan is bracing for massive protests amidst death rumours about former Prime Minister Imran Khan. Public gatherings have been banned in Rawalpindi, and Section 144 has been imposed amidst demands by Khan’s supporters to have access to him. This has led Prime Minister...

Colombo: A National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) team rescued a nine-month pregnant woman in Sri Lanka's Puttalam district and moved her to a safer location as rescue and relief operations intensify across the island nation following the havoc caused by Cyclone Ditwah. The woman, after...

Nairobi: Sexual abuse in Pakistan’s madrassas forms part of a wider pattern of exploitation, with some institutions implicated in child trafficking -- recruiting boys under the guise of religious education and pushing them into forced labour, militancy, or domestic servitude, a report said Monday. It...

Moscow: The Russian parliament's lower house will Tuesday hold a ratification vote on a key defence pact with India, according to parliamentary sources. The vote on the India-Russia Reciprocal Exchange of Logistics Agreement (RELOS) will be held ahead of President Vladimir Putin's state visit to...

Kathmandu: Heavy damage to several hotel properties during Gen-Z protests in early September does not appear to have dented foreign tourists’ enthusiasm for visiting Nepal, as the country welcomed over one million foreign visitors by November this year. According to statistics released by the Nepal...