Kathmandu: Nepalese authorities Wednesday urged people living in the central, western, and eastern parts of the Himalayan Nation to remain alert after water levels in three major rivers have crossed their alert levels following rainfall in different parts of the country. According to the Department...
Dubai: United States military struck targets in Iran Tuesday as hostilities flared after a month without military action. Iran fired missiles and drones in response, Iranian semiofficial media said. The Fars and Tasnim news agencies, seen as close to Iran's security forces, reported late Tuesday...
New York: The woman killed in a random stabbing in Times Square was a Bank of America Vice President. Police identified her and the attacker, who was killed in a confrontation with officers shortly after the rampage. The woman who died, Erin Piacenti, 32, was...
Kathmandu: Nepal's Prime Minister Balendra Shah Tuesday said that the devastating flood that entered Rasuwa through the Bhotekoshi River bordering Tibet last week was due to climate change. "There is no doubt that climate change has caused this disaster, as it has been confirmed that...
Washington: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has met US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and invited him to the economic and financial partnership meeting in Delhi later this year. Sitharaman met Bessent in Asheville, North Carolina, on the sidelines of the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank...
Kyiv/New York: An Indian national has been killed in a wave of intensified Russian attacks on Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky announced Tuesday. He said on X that the Indian was among 12 killed in drone and missile strikes on several targets across Ukraine in five...
London: Former British prime minister Keir Starmer Tuesday announced plans to step down as a member of Parliament from London to focus on "international affairs". Starmer, who resigned as Labour leader and PM to be succeeded at 10 Downing Street by Andy Burnham last month, had previously...
Bishkek: India on Tuesday highlighted several key outcomes from the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit, including measures to strengthen security cooperation and tackle transnational threats such as terrorism and extremism. The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) listed 13 outcomes, one of which was the approval...
Lahore: A court in Pakistan handed over a Hindu girl back to her parents after she was allegedly lured into a relationship by a Muslim man and subsequently pressured to convert to Islam and marry him. Shirimati Reeta, 21, a resident of Rana Rajput Colony...
Kathmandu: Over 1000 people have now been confirmed dead following last week's devastating floods in Nepal even as bodies swept away continue to pile up along riverbanks in different districts, Tuesday. The number of bodies recovered so far have reached 1003, the National Disaster Risk...
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