Tokyo, March 8 : External Affairs Minister S.Jaishankar met Akie Abe, wife of late Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, and handed over a personal letter from Prime Minister Narendra Modi...

Tokyo, March 8 : Exuding confidence that India will have a stable government for 15 years, even longer, External Affairs Minister S.Jaishankar said on Friday that long-term political stability is...

Washington, March 8 : US President Joe Biden launched a scathing attack against his November presidential election rival Donald Trump, mentioning the 2021 Capitol riot, and said he will not...

Tokyo, March 8 : Japan’s household spending in January fell 6.3 per cent from a year earlier, down for the 11th consecutive month while expanding from the 2.5-per cent drop...

Kiev, March 8 : The Ukrainian authorities will start a mandatory evacuation from 57 settlements in the eastern Kharkiv region, regional governor Oleg Synegubov has announced. “We decided to carry...

New Delhi, March 8 : Women serve as heads of state and government in only 31 countries with less than one in four serving as cabinet ministers, and just 26.5...

Geneva, March 8 : A United Nations (UN) expert has condemned Israel’s “destruction” of the food system in Gaza and urged an end to the “starvation campaign” there. At a...

Kiev, March 8 : Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has signed a decree to discharge conscripts of compulsory basic military service. The conscripted soldiers, whose term was extended due to martial...

Washington, March 8 : US President Joe Biden will announce in his State of the Union address that the country’s military will build a temporary port in Gaza for the...

Jerusalem, March 8 : Israel imposed a fine of 2.9 million shekels (around $809,000) on the US energy giant Chevron Corporation for sea emission violation, the Israeli Ministry of Environmental...

Jerusalem, March 8 : Israel’s military said on Thursday that it launched an internal investigation into the failures that led up to Hamas’s attack on October 7, 2023, which caught...

New Delhi, March 7 : A 100-member youth delegation from five Central Asian countries is on a visit to India from March 5 to 13 to witness the country’s growth,...

Kiev, March 7 : At least seven people were killed and 15 others were injured, with children reported among the casualties in Russian attacks against Ukraine a day ago, the...

Seoul, March 7 : South Korea’s Defence Minister Shin Won-sik on Thursday called on troops to conduct “realistic” training to ensure the end of the North Korean regime if it...

Seoul, March 7 : South Korean fighter jets staged a live-fire exercise on Thursday to bolster readiness against North Korean cruise missile and artillery threats, the Air Force said, in...

Wellington, March 7 : The New Zealand government is expected to cut red tape to accelerate the consenting of infrastructure and other major projects of national significance. The Fast Track...

Manila, March 7 : The Philippine government on Thursday confirmed the death of two seafarers in a recent missile strike by Houthi militants on a cargo ship in the Gulf...

Tokyo, March 7 : Noting the reality of power shifts in the Indo-Pacific, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Thursday referred to China and said that it is a cause...

Tokyo, March 7 : Japanese workers’ real wages in January shrank for the 22nd straight month, as salary gains continued to fall short of outpacing inflation, government data showed on...

Tokyo, March 7 : External Affairs Minister S.Jaishankar said on Thursday that it is important for Japan to recognise that India is a very different country today and appreciate the...

Gaza, March 7 : The Israeli military has announced that it killed the chief of the Hamas rocket unit in an operation in the central Gaza Strip. Israel Defense Forces...

Seoul, March 7 : North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called for intensifying “practical actual war drills” during a visit to a military training base, state media said on Thursday,...

Washington, March 7 : Minnesota Congressman Dean Phillips has announced that he is dropping out of the Democratic presidential primary, after making no progress in establishing himself as an alternative...

Sanaa, March 7 : Three crew members were killed and four others injured in a Houthi missile strike on a Barbados-flagged commercial ship while it was crossing the Gulf of...

Washington, March 7 : US Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has reiterated that the central bank is not ready to start cutting interest rates, noting that he needs to see...

Sanaa, March 7 : Yemen’s armed Houthi group claimed responsibility for launching a missile attack against a US cargo ship in the Gulf of Aden on Wednesday, which caused fire...

Tel Aviv, March 7 : One Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldier was killed while five others were seriously injured during fighting in the southern Gaza Strip on Wednesday, bringing the...

Washington, March 6 : Nikki Haley, the former US Ambassador to the UN, suspended her campaign for the Republican nomination for President after a severe drubbing in the primaries held...

Gaza, March 6 : The Palestinian death toll from ongoing Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip has risen to 30,717 with 72,156 others wounded, the Hamas-run Health Ministry said in...

Jerusalem, March 6 : Israel’s Supreme Planning Council approved on Wednesday the construction of 3,426 new housing units in settlements in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, authorities said. The houses are...

Beirut, March 6 : A Hezbollah fighter was killed, and six “civilians” wounded on Wednesday in Israeli air strikes targeting several towns and villages in the border region of southern...

Kiev, March 6 : Russian military forces attacked the village of Borova in Kharkiv region on Wednesday, killing a 70-year-old man and injuring four people, including three children, Governor Oleh...

Washington, March 6 : Nikki Haley, the former US Ambassador to the UN, will suspend her campaign for the Republican nomination for President after a severe drubbing in the primaries...

Kiev, March 6 : The death toll of a Russian missile attack against Kiev on February 7 has risen to six as a man died in the hospital, media reported,...

Washington, March 6 : Indian-American Republican presidential aspirant Nikki Haley is set to quit the race for the White House, clearing the decks for her former boss and GOP frontrunner...

Colombo, March 6 : Financially-broke Sri Lanka seeks a debt default till 2027 from both local and international lenders to ease the debt burden on the country’s GDP. Sri Lanka...

Kiev, March 6 : Ukraine shot down 38 of the 42 Shahed-type attack drones launched by Russia overnight on Wednesday, the Ukrainian Air Force said in a statement as quoted...

Seoul, March 6 : External Affairs Minister S.Jaishankar spoke of shared cultural heritage and longstanding people-to-people relations as he met Hong Tae-yong, Mayor of Gimhae City in South Korea on...

Riga, March 6 : The Latvian government has approved a list of Russian and Belarusian agricultural and food products that will be banned from importing into the country starting from...

Kathmandu, March 6 : Seven people were killed and 30 others injured on Wednesday when a passenger bus plunged into Trishuli river in Nepal’s Dhading district. The accident occurred when...

New Delhi, March 6 : External Affairs Minister S.Jaishankar on Wednesday called for expanding cooperation in areas of critical and emerging technology to a safe and secure Indo-Pacific in his...

Washington, March 6 : US President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump are leading in “Super Tuesday” wins in their respective party’s primaries for the 2024 presidential election. Biden,...

Ramallah, March 6 : Israeli forces have reportedly detained at least 22 Palestinians in the West Bank, including two Palestinian prisoners who were released during the Israel-Hamas truce in November...

Jerusalem, March 6 : Israel will not impose new limits on the number of worshippers allowed into Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the first week of the Muslim holy month...

Brussels, March 6 : The European Union (EU) has presented its “first-ever” European Defence Industrial Strategy at the EU level in response to security concerns. “To increase European defence industrial...

Sanaa, March 6 : Yemen’s Houthis said they launched multiple missile and drone attacks against two US Navy warships in the Red Sea on Tuesday night. “We carried out a...

Moscow, March 6 : A Russian Sukhoi-27 fighter jet escorted three French military planes near the Russian border over the Black Sea, state media reported, citing the Russian Defence Ministry....

Kathmandu, March 5 ( IANS) As speculation is rife that Beijing is behind the new political change in Nepal, the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated on Tuesday that China...

New Delhi, March 5 : Exuding confidence that the India- Republic of Korea partnership can emerge as a significant factor in the Indo-Pacific, External Affairs Minister (EAM) S Jaishankar said...

New Delhi, March 5 : External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar began his three-day Asian tour with discussions on Indo-Pacific, trade, and economic cooperation as he landed in South Korea on...

New Delhi, March 5 : Recognising India’s leadership role on the global stage, New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters said on Tuesday that his country is determined to build a...

New Delhi, March 5 : Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday congratulated Shehbaz Sharif after he was sworn in as the 24th Prime Minister of Pakistan. Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N)...

United Nations, March 5 : India has expressed “serious concern” over the allegations against the world body’s beleaguered agency that provides support for Palestinians but said that it was “positively...

Tel Aviv, March 5 : The Hostages and Missing Families forum of Israel has demanded that the ceasefire deal be accelerated and information on their near and dear ones, who...

San Francisco, March 5 : Indian-origin Parag Agrawal, former CEO of Twitter (now called X), and three other employees have sued Elon Musk for about $128 million in unpaid severance....

Seoul, March 5 : A US Navy destroyer arrived at a naval base on the southern island of Jeju on Tuesday for a replenishment purpose, the South Korean Navy said....

Washington, March 5 : US Vice President Kamala Harris has met with a member of Israel’s cabinet prosecuting the war in Gaza, urging an immediate ceasefire and the increase and...

Tehran, March 5 : Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Nasser Kanaani has rejected claims by US officials about Tehran’s space cooperation with Moscow as “baseless”. Kanaani was reacting to the claims...

Washington, March 5 : A Massachusetts Air National Guardsman accused of posting classified intelligence information and sensitive documents online has pleaded guilty to the crimes he was charged with, in...

United Nations, March 5 : India has called for an “immediate de-escalation and eschewing of violence” in Gaza but stopped short of specifically mentioning a ceasefire, which is now a...

Washington, March 5 : The US Supreme Court has unanimously ruled that former President Donald Trump can remain on the primary ballot in Colorado, rejecting the state’s disqualification and potentially...

New Delhi, March 4 : China’s re-opening rebound was one of the biggest market bets gone wrong in 2023, with the housing market (60 per sent of household assets) seeing...

New Delhi, March 4 : External Affairs Minister (EAM) S Jaishankar on Monday said that the strategic partnership between India and France is growing from strength to strength. Earlier, EAM...

Kathmandu, March 4 : A reshuffle of the cabinet is on the cards in Nepal on Monday with the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre) severing its alliance with its...

Tel Aviv, March 4 : The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has carried out heaving shelling against Hezbollah in south Lebanon and West Bank areas, media reports said. Reports said that...

Tel Aviv, March 4 : Israel’s war cabinet fears heightened tension near the West Bank and Temple Mount during the upcoming month of Ramadan after the ceasefire talks failed to...

Washington, March 4 : US Vice President Kamala Harris has urged Israel to “significantly increase the flow of aid” to Gaza by opening new border crossings and not imposing “any...

Washington, March 4 : US Vice President Kamala Harris has urged Israel to “significantly increase the flow of aid” to Gaza by opening new border crossings and not imposing “any...

Seoul, March 4 : South Korea and the US kicked off a major combined military exercise on Monday to reinforce deterrence against North Korea’s nuclear and missile threats amid concern...

Gaza, March 4 : Dozens of Palestinians were killed and injured in an Israeli attack while they were waiting for aid in Gaza City, Hamas-run Health Ministry Spokesman Ashraf al-Qedra...

Vienna, March 4 : Several OPEC+ members have announced extensions of oil output cuts into the second quarter to support the “stability and balance of oil markets”. OPEC+ is an...

Cairo, March 4 : A Hamas delegation has joined Qatari and US mediators in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, for talks on a new ceasefire amid indications that Israel had “more...

Dhaka, March 3 : At least 13 shops were gutted in a fire in Mohipur fishing port in Bangladesh’s Patuakhali district, local media reported. The fire broke out in a...

Seoul, March 3 : Tens of thousands of doctors held a rally in Seoul on Sunday to protest the government’s medical school quota hike plan as South Korean Prime Minister...

Damascus, March 3 : At least six people were killed and dozen others injured on Sunday after a bus they were travelling in overturned in Syria’s Hama province, local media...

Islamabad, March 3 : Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President Shehbaz Sharif on Sunday took over the country’s premiership for the second time after he bagged 201 votes in the National...

Islamabad, March 3 : At least 29 people were killed and 50 others injured due to heavy rains that swept across Pakistan in the past 48 hours, the country’s authorities...

Islamabad, March 3 : PML(N) President Shehbaz Sharif was elected 24th Prime Minister of Pakistan on Sunday. National Assembly Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq announced that Shehbaz Sharif bagged 201 votes,...

Islamabad, March 3 : Amid ruckus by Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC) members, voting is underway in the National Assembly to elect 24th prime minister of Pakistan. For voting, entry and...

Seoul, March 3 : South Korea’s demand for key minerals is expected to see 19-fold jump from 2021 to 2040 due to expansion in the electric car and wind power...

United Nations, March 3 : The United Nations Security Council has expressed “deep concern” over more than 100 deaths in Gaza around a humanitarian convoy and to cite the “involvement”...

New Delhi: In the background of India’s clear stand on the Hamas-Israel conflict denouncing the “terror” attack of Hamas on Israel on October 7 last year and endorsing the support...

Amman, March 3 : Jordan and the US have jointly carried out airdrops of aid to Gaza, the first time that the US participated in the multinational humanitarian effort. Two...

Baghdad, March 3 : The Iraqi National Intelligence Service (INIS) has said that its members rescued a Yazidi woman kidnapped ten years ago by the extremist Islamic State (IS) group....

Tehran, March 3 : Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has invited international investors and the member states of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF) to participate in the country’s energy projects....

Washington, March 3 : Former US President Donald Trump on Saturday won Missouri’s Republican presidential caucus, continuing his march toward the GOP nomination. Trump’s victory over former US Ambassador to...

Antalya (Turkey), March 3 : Slovak Foreign Minister Juraj Blanar has said that his country opposes imposing sanctions on Russia and won’t send any weapons or troops to Ukraine to...

Washington, March 3 : The decks are clear now for India to take the next steps in acquiring 31 MQ-9B SkyGuardian armed drones with ammunition with the lapse on Friday...

Gaza, March 2 : A total of 30,320 Palestinians have been killed in Israel’s military offensive in the Gaza Strip, the Hamas-run Health Ministry said in a statement on Saturday....

Rawalpindi, March 2 : Another steward of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has reportedly gone missing from Canada, making it the second such incident in a week, a media report said....

New Delhi, March 2 : In yet another proof of its emergence as an emphatic voice of the Global South, India joined hands with “valued friend” Mauritius once again to...

Islamabad, March 2 : PPP and the PML-N joint candidate Asif Ali Zardari and PTI backed Sunni Ittehad Council’s candidate Mahmood Khan Achakzai have filed nomination for the presidential polls...

New Delhi, March 2 : As they keenly wait for the grand electoral spectacle to unfold in their country of origin, most Indian-Americans say they are certain that the Bharatiya...

New York, March 2 : The UN has said that an estimated 9,000 women have been reportedly killed by Israeli forces in Gaza in the last five months of the...

Kiev, March 2 : Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte signed an agreement on security cooperation between the two countries, the presidential press service reported. The...

Ottawa, March 2 : Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs Melanie Joly has said that Canada is imposing additional import restrictions on Russian diamonds. This ban further builds on Canada’s December...

Ankara, March 2 : Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry has called for a truce in Gaza before the holy month of Ramadan expected to begin this year around March 11....

United Nations, March 2 : A UN team visited Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City and brought aid, the first time the world body has been able to deliver aid into...

Tehran, March 2 : Voting for Iran’s 12th Parliament and sixth Assembly of Experts ended at 12:00 a.m.on Saturday after 16 straight hours, media reported. The voting began at 8...

Sanaa, March 2 : The US-British military coalition launched two airstrikes against Houthi military targets in Yemen’s Red Sea port city of Hodeidah, residents and the media reported. The strikes...

Tel Aviv, March 2 : The mediatory talks for a temporary ceasefire into the ongoing Israel and Hamas war have come to a halt after Israel demanded a list of...

Singapore, March 2 : The Singaporean government will introduce an amendment to the Cybersecurity Act to Parliament next week, which will expand the coverage of crucial digital infrastructure, said Josephine...

Moscow, March 2 : Russia does not plan to deploy nuclear weapons in space, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at a meeting with the country’s security council members. “We have...

Gaza, March 2 : The Palestinian death toll in the Gaza Strip has risen to 30,228 as the Israeli military killed 193 in the past 24 hours, the Hamas-run Health...

Helsinki, March 2 : Alexander Stubb took office as the 13th President of Finland on Friday during a session of the Finnish Parliament, succeeding Sauli Niinisto. Stubb, 55, won the...

Islamabad, March 2 : Pakistan experienced 97 militant attacks in February, resulting in 87 fatalities and 118 injuries, the Pakistan Institute for Conflict and Security Studies (PICSS) said. “While there...

Kuala Lumpur, March 2 : Malaysia has seen a rise in dengue cases over the past week with a total of 3,572, the Health Ministry said. The number is an...

Kiev, March 2 : Ukrainian Defence Minister Rustem Umerov signed a plan for the implementation of the adapted Annual National Program of Cooperation with NATO for 2024, the Ukrainian Defence...

Dhaka, March 1 : The death toll in the fire at a multi-storey building in Bangladesh has risen to 46, local media reported. President Mohammed Shahabuddin and Prime Minister Sheikh...

Islamabad, March 1 : The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Friday announced that the election for the office of the South Asian country’s president will be held on March...

Colombo, March 1 : India on Friday inked a pact with Sri Lanka to provide renewable energy to three islands Delft, Nainativu and Analaitivu off Jaffna which are completely cut...

San Francisco, March 1 : Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has sued OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman, alleging they breached their original contractual agreements around AI. The lawsuit,...

Islamabad, March 1 : Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) backed candidate Ali Amin Gandapur on Friday was elected as chief minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province while PML-N’s Sardar Ayaz Sadiq became the...

Dhaka, March 1 : The death toll in the fire at a multi-storey building in Bangladesh has risen to 45, Health Minister Samanta Lal Sen said on Friday. The fire,...

Tokyo, March 1 : Indian Ambassador to Japan Sibi George met Hiroshi Hase, governor of the quake-hit Ishikawa, on Friday and thanked him for all the assistance extended to Indians...

Tehran, March 1 : Polling is underway for the Iran’s 12th Parliamentary and Assembly of experts elections on Friday, during which Supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei has cast his vote, the...

Seoul, March 1 : South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol on Friday said that Seoul and Japan are partners in the pursuit of global peace and prosperity as they work...

Moscow, March 1 : Russia has expressed its readiness to transfer the bodies of those who perished in the crash of a military Il-76 aircraft in the Belgorod region to...

Kiev, March 1 : Ukraine’s ongoing war with Russia has incurred losses of at least $19.6 billion to the country’s cultural and tourism sectors, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said. Shmyhal...

Dhaka, March 1 : At least 43 people were killed in a deadly fire that broke out at a six-storey commercial building on Baily Road in Dhaka late on Thursday...

Dhaka, March 1 : At least 43 people were killed in a deadly fire that broke out at a six-storey commercial building on Baily Road in Dhaka late on Thursday...

United Nations, March 1 : UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday condemned the killing of more than 100 people in incidents in northern Gaza and repeated his demands for a...

Bhopal, Feb 29 : In an initiative aimed at combating cervical cancer, the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) here will provide free vaccines for girls aged 9 to...

New Delhi, Feb 29 : At least 20 Indians, who had gone as support staff to work with the Russian Army, are stuck in that country and efforts are on...

Jakarta, Feb 29 : Flash floods triggered by heavy rainfall in Indonesia’s capital Jakarta on Thursday inundated 34 roads, causing traffic disruptions and evacuation of residents in some areas of...

Houston, Feb 29 : At least one person was killed in fast-spreading wildfires in the Texas Panhandle that forced evacuations in more towns, knocked out power to thousands of customers...

Moscow, Feb 29 : The BRICS states are overtaking the G7 in terms of share in global GDP in PPP terms, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday while addressing...

Tokyo, Feb 29 : A 4.9 magnitude earthquake struck Japan’s Chiba prefecture, east of Tokyo, the weather agency said on Thursday. The temblor occurred at 6:35 p.m.local time (0935 GMT)...

Karachi, Feb 29 : Pakistan’s foreign exchange market is tense on reports about the expected higher dollar outflows, local media reported. State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) is currently burdened with...

New Delhi, Feb 29 : External Affairs Minister S.Jaishankar on Thursday called the India-Mauritius relationship an example of India’s SAGAR (Security and Growth for All in the Region) goodwill as...

Washington/Seoul, Feb 29 : The White House has declined to comment on whether South Korea should provide 155-mm artillery shells to help Ukraine defend against Russian attacks, saying it is...

New Delhi, Feb 29 : Responding to Pakistan’s allegations about Jammu and Kashmir at the UN Human Rights Council, India, exercising its right to reply, said that Islamabad has no...

New York, Feb 29 : Indian-origin Sridhar Ramaswamy has been named as the Chief Executive Officer and member of the Board of Directors of US-based data cloud company Snowflake. Ramaswamy,...

Damascus, Feb 29 : Israeli aerial attack hit areas south of the Syrian capital, Damascus, according to the Syrian Defence Ministry. The aerial attack originated from the occupied Golan Heights,...

Yangon, Feb 29 : Myanmar’s State Administration Council imposed martial law in Momeik and Mabein townships in Shan state of eastern Myanmar, media reported. According to the media report, the...

Moscow, Feb 29 : The presence of Western troops in Ukraine in any form would lead to a “direct escalation” of the situation, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova said....

Moscow, Feb 29 : Russia will closely monitor Sweden’s actions following the country’s accession to the NATO and develop its response accordingly, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova said. “We...

Gaza, Feb 29 : The Palestinian death toll in the Gaza Strip has risen to 29,954 as the Israeli military killed 76 in the past 24 hours, the Hamas-run Health...

Islamabad, Feb 28 : China has agreed to rollover a $2 billion debt on existing terms after initially seeking a hike in price, as Pakistan’s policy to maintain foreign exchange...

Dubai, Feb 28 : Thousands of devotees took part in a grand procession of the Hindu community members at the newly-inaugurated BAPS Hindu temple in Abu Dhabi which is set...

Hong Kong, Feb 28 : Embattled Chinese developer Country Garden is facing a winding-up petition in Hong Kong, months after the company started what is expected to be the second-largest...

Colombo, Feb 28 : Indian Coast Guard ships Samarth, an Offshore Patrol Vessel and Abhinav, Fast Patrol Vessel, arrived at Southern port city of Galle for training and professional interaction,...

Washington, Feb 28 : An out-of-control wildfire in the Texas Panhandle, fueled by high winds and dry air, prompted evacuation orders in small towns and shut down of a nuclear...

Washington, Feb 28 : US President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump are projected to win in Democratic and Republican primaries in key swing state Michigan, as per media...

Conakry, Feb 28 : General Mamady Doumbouya, Guinea’s transitional president, appointed Amadou Oury Bah as prime minister, announced Minister Secretary General of the Presidency Amara Camara. The announcement was made...

Tokyo, Feb 28 : Japan on Wednesday started the fourth-round of release of nuclear-contaminated wastewater from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant into the Pacific Ocean. Despite opposition from...

Bamako, Feb 28 : Thirty-one people were killed and 10 others injured when a bus fell off a bridge in Mali. As per Transport ministry, the incident occurred around 5:00...

Tel Aviv, Feb 28 : A senior aid official of a UN body has warned that a quarter of the population of the war-trodden Gaza is one step away from...

Tel Aviv, Feb 28 : A senior aid official of a UN body has warned that a quarter of the population of the war-trodden Gaza is one step away from...

Gaza, Feb 28 : At least 120 patients needed to be evacuated from the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis city in the southern Gaza Strip, the Gaza-based Health Ministry...

Prague, Feb 28 : The Visegrad Group (V4) countries are not planning to send troops to Ukraine, their Prime Ministers (PMs) said here. Czech PM Petr Fiala, Poland’s Donald Tusk,...

Cairo, Feb 28 : Egypt is setting up a third refugee camp in the Gaza Strip and preparing a field hospital for Palestinians displaced by Israeli attacks, media reported. The...

Vienna, Feb 28 : German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius has ruled out sending German ground troops to Ukraine after French President Emmanuel Macron suggested a day before that European nations...

Ankara, Feb 28 : A senior member of the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) was “neutralised” by Turkish intelligence in a cross-border raid in northern Syria, a media report said....

Moscow, Feb 28 : A direct confrontation between Russia and the NATO will be ‘inevitable’ if Western nations decide to send troops to Ukraine, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said. Peskov’s...

Washington, Feb 28 : Voters went to the polls across Michigan, a battleground state, for the 2024 US presidential primary. In the Republican race, former US President Donald Trump, who...

Athens, Feb 28 : A frigate of the Hellenic Navy was sailing as part of a European Union (EU) maritime security operation to protect free navigation in the Red Sea,...

Baghdad, Feb 28 : Iraqi President Abdul Latif Rashid and his Armenian counterpart Vahagn Khachaturyan met in Baghdad and discussed means to enhance bilateral ties in various aspects. A statement...

Bangkok, Feb 28 : Thailand is set to brace for intense heat with projected rainfall 20 per cent below normal throughout the summer this year due to the El Nino...

Athens, Feb 28 : Greece supports all diplomatic efforts for a viable peace treaty between Armenia and Azerbaijan, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said here. “We always stand with international...

Rawalpindi, Feb 27 : The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Tuesday announced staging countrywide protests with participation from other political parties on March 2 against the alleged rigging in the Pakistan...

Washington, Feb 27 : Niraj Antani, a Republican running for US Congress, is aggressively projecting his Hindu faith.Bhavini Patel, a Democrat running for Congress, is battling allegations of courting Hindu...

Jerusalem, Feb 27 : Israeli warplanes carried out a strike on a Hezbollah military site in Lebanon on Tuesday, responding to a barrage of rockets launched by the armed group...

Islamabad, Feb 27 : An accountability court in Pakistan on Tuesday indicted former prime minister and jailed PTI founder Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi in the Rs 50...

Seoul, Feb 27 : South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol on Tuesday said the government’s plan to raise the medical school enrollment quota by 2,000 is a “minimum necessary measure”...

Moscow, Feb 27 : Russia will introduce a six-month ban on gasoline exports, beginning March 1, a spokesperson for Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said on Tuesday. Talking to...

Astana, Feb 27 : A fire broke out at the international airport in Astana, capital of Kazakhstan, leading to delay of 18 flights, authorities said on Tuesday. The fire, which...

Tokyo, Feb 27 : Japan’s population shrank with a record loss of 831,872 in 2023, as per preliminary data released by country’s health ministry on Tuesday. According to the Ministry...

Tokyo, Feb 27 : A Japanese man, who confessed to be a fugitive linked to a series of terrorist bombings in Japan during the 1970s before he died last month,...

Islamabad, Feb 27 : A police official and two terrorists were killed during an encounter on Tuesday in Mardan district of Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. The incident occurred during the...

Mexico City, Feb 27 : Highlighting the importance of Mexican migrant workers to the US economy, Mexican Foreign Minister Alicia Barcena has again urged Washington to regularise their legal status....

United Nations, Feb 27 : The UN General Assembly has adopted a resolution that decides to convene the World Social Summit in 2025. The summit aims to address the gaps...

Washington, Feb 27 : US President Joe Biden has said that he expects a ceasefire to take effect in Gaza by next Monday (March 4) on the conclusion of negotiations...

United Nations, Feb 27 : The United Nations (UN) wants to see a strengthened and empowered Palestinian government, a spokesman of the world body has said in response to the...

Budapest, Feb 27 : Hungarian lawmakers have elected Tamas Sulyok, head of the Constitutional Court, as the country’s new President. Out of the 199 lawmakers, 146 participated in the voting...

London, Feb 27 : The UK Home Office has said that a record 290 people arrived in small boats in a single day, thus taking the migrant Channel crossings in...

Budapest, Feb 27 : Hungary’s lawmakers have approved a bill on Sweden’s bid to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Out of the 199 members of parliament (MP), 194...

Ramallah, Feb 27 : Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has reportedly accepted the resignation of Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh’s government. Abbas on Monday tasked Shtayyeh’s government with temporarily continuing its duties...

Nairobi, Feb 26 : Ministers of environment and other leaders from more than 180 nations convened in Nairobi on Monday for the start of the sixth session of the United...

New York, Feb 26 : An Indian investigative journalist has died in a building fire in New York City despite firefighters’ heroic efforts to save the people trapped in the...

Dubai, Feb 26 : A 43-year-old Indian-origin investment banker quit his high-paying job in Dubai last year to serve as a full-time volunteer at the BAPS Abu Dhabi temple, which...

Islamabad, Feb 26 : Pakistan President Arif Alvi has rejected a summary to summon the National Assembly session, sources said, in which newly-elected MNAs will take oath, according to a...

Beirut, Feb 26 : Hezbollah claimed on Monday that it had shot down an Israeli drone with a surface-to-air missile, and the drone was seen falling in flames in Iqlim...

Ramallah, Feb 26 : Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh on Monday said that he submitted his government’s resignation to President Mahmoud Abbas. In the weekly cabinet meeting held in Ramallah,...

Islamabad, Feb 26 : Amid boycotts and delays, the Punjab Assembly on Monday elected PML-N’s Maryam Nawaz as the first female Chief Minister of the province and Pakistan, media reported....

Kiev, Feb 26 : Five people have been killed while 10 others have been injured in Russian attacks against Ukraine, regional authorities reported early Monday as quoted by media reports....

Kiev, Feb 26 : Europe should suspend ammunition exports to third countries other than Ukraine in light of the shortages faced by the Ukrainian military, Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba...

Kiev, Feb 26 : Europe should suspend ammunition exports to third countries other than Ukraine in light of the shortages faced by the Ukrainian military, Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba...

Paris, Feb 26 : French President Emmanuel Macron is due to host a conference for Kiev’s partners on Monday to strengthen the allied commitment to Ukraine after the full-scale war...

Male, Feb 26 : Maldives’ main opposition leader Abdulla Shahid has denied allegations that India backed his recent appointment as the president of the Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP), a media...

Kabul, Feb 26 : The Afghan caretaker government’s ministry of education has identified and annulled 700 “ghost schools” across the country, the spokesman for the ministry Mansour Ahmad Hamza said....

Islamabad, Feb 26 : A week-long countrywide polio vaccination campaign is going to start in Pakistan from Monday, in which more than 45.8 million children under five years of age...

Islamabad, Feb 26 : Pakistani President Arif Alvi has called on the nation to work together to fight the challenges of poverty, malnutrition, stunting and maternal and neonatal deaths. The...

Canberra, Feb 26 : Australian researchers have made a breakthrough in treating severe cases of asthma. In a study published on Monday, researchers found that beta common cytokines, a family...

New Delhi, Feb 26 : The Ministry of External Affairs said on Monday that it remains committed to pursuing all the relevant cases of its nationals for an early discharge...

Berlin, Feb 26 : One person died while three others suffered minor to serious injuries following a fire in an asylum centre in Nordlingen, a town in the southern German...

Amman, Feb 26 : King Abdullah II of Jordan has warned that a continued war in Gaza during the holy month of Ramadan could risk expanding the conflict. King Abdullah...

Kiev, Feb 26 : Around 31,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed since Russia’s full-scale invasion began two years ago, President Volodymyr Zelensky has said. The Ukrainian President said at a...

Baghdad, Feb 26 : The leader of an Iraqi armed Shiite militia has said that the current period of calm among Iraqi armed groups in their conflict with US forces...

Gaza, Feb 26 : At least 25 Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks in the Gaza City on Sunday, medical sources and eyewitnesses said. Fifteen people, including children, were killed...