Rahul Gandhi reaches ED office
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi reached the Enforcement Directorate (ED) office in the national capital on Monday amidst heavy security deployment. He reached ED after he was summoned in connection with the National Herald case where heavy police deployment in and around the ED office located at Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Road. A large number of […]
Largest Palestinian displacement in decades looms after Israeli court ruling
Some 1,200 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank region of Masafer Yatta face the risk of forced removal to make way for an army firing zone after a decades-long legal battle that ended last month in Israel’s highest court. The ruling opened the way for one of the largest displacements since Israel captured the territory in the […]
US rolls out measures to tackle migration crisis
LOS ANGELES: The United States unveiled on Friday a long list of measures to confront the migration crisis as President Joe Biden and fellow leaders prepared to issue a joint declaration thrashed out at a fractious Summit of the Americas. The White House touted a series of actions agreed by countries across the hemisphere and […]
Palestinian killed during clashes with Israeli soldiers in West Bank
A Palestinian was killed during clashes with the Israeli soldiers in the town of Halhul near the southern West Bank city of Hebron, according to Palestinian medics and eyewitnesses. The Palestinian Health Ministry on Thursday said in a statement that Mahmoud Abu Ahyour, 27, died in the hospital after he was shot in the abdomen […]
India-Bangladesh bus service resumes after two years
The cross-border bus service between Bangladesh and India resumed on Friday, two years after its suspension due to the COVID-19 pandemic. “Resumption of India-Bangladesh Cross-Border Bus Services! Bus services b/w India-Bangladesh via ICP Agartala-Akhaura & ICP Haridaspur-Benapole resumed with the Dhaka-Kolkata-Dhaka bus being flagged off from Dhaka early morning today-a major step forward in enhancing […]
Excluded from Americas summit, Venezuelan President Maduro visits Turkiye
CARACAS: Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro arrived in Turkiye on Tuesday for an official visit as other Latin American leaders gathered for a summit in Los Angeles, to which the United States did not invite him. The VTV channel showed footage of Maduro arriving at the airport in Ankara, where he was received by senior Turkish […]
UP: Boy Kills Mother As She Stops Him From Playing PUBG
A 16-year-old boy allegedly shot dead his mother as she stopped him from playing the online game PUBG, police said on Wednesday. The boy was addicted to the online game and could not take his mother preventing him to play it, so he shot her dead, they said.Police said they recovered the partially decomposed body […]
Turkiye tells Russia it won’t tolerate instability in northern Syria
ANKARA: Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar told Russian counterpart Sergei Shoigu in a call on Tuesday that his country would respond to moves aimed at disrupting stability in northern Syria, his office said, as Ankara gears for talks with Moscow ahead of an expected offensive in the region. President Tayyip Erdogan announced two weeks ago […]
Rahul Gandhi meets Sidhu Moosewala’s parents in his native village
Following the demise of singer-politician Sidhu Moosewala, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi today reached Punjab’s Mansa district and met the parents of Moosewala and expressed his grief. Moosewala was gunned down by assailants on May 29 by gangsters close to his ancestral village in broad daylight. The incident took place a day after his security was […]
Johnson wins leadership challenge in UK parliament
LONDON: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson won a confidence vote on Monday, seeing off a challenge to his leadership brought by lawmakers within his Conservative Party. Johnson won the vote 211 to 148, according to Graham Brady, chairman of the party committee that oversaw the ballot. Johnson earlier defended his record on delivering Brexit, fighting […]