International

Colombo: Eight Indian nationals have been arrested in Sri Lanka for allegedly engaging in illegal online gambling, police said Tuesday. The suspects, aged between 22 and 51, were arrested after a raid by the Colombo suburban Thalangama police Sunday after receiving a tip-off that an...

Islamabad: Pakistan and Turkiye have agreed to deploy their military forces in Saudi Arabia under the trilateral defence agreement between the three countries in the wake of Houthi attacks in the Gulf country. The three sides had convened an emergency meeting of the Strategic Political...

London: Bestselling British author Jeffrey Archer, whose career as a politician was derailed by a perjury conviction, has died. He was 86. Archer died "suddenly and peacefully" at his home Monday, a day before the global release of his final novel, "Adam and Eve," publisher...

Kathmandu: Nepal's Home Minister Sudan Gurung is scheduled to visit India next week to participate in the first meeting of the home ministers of the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC), scheduled for October 13, a senior official has said....

London: A British Airways (BA) flight made a U-turn back to the UK just an hour into its journey from London to Chicago Monday, according to flight tracking data. BA said the flight made a safe landing back at London Heathrow following a "technical issue",...

Washington: Indian professionals seeking employment-based US Green Cards continue to face waits stretching back more than a decade in key categories, even as the start of a new fiscal year has restored visa numbers and brought some movement, according to the US State Department's October...

Moscow: Almost 200 people are under medical observation in Russia’s Siberia region after the death of a 28-year-old lab worker who may have been exposed to pneumonic plague, according to local media reports. While Russian authorities have not confirmed her exact cause of death, the...

London: At least one person was killed while 11 others were rescued after a Russian drone strike caused a fire on a Turkish-owned civilian cargo vessel in the Black Sea carrying Indian and Azerbaijani citizens, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Monday. "A horrific strike by...

London: Former Prince Andrew has filed a legal action challenging the warrants that authorised searches at two of his homes earlier this year as British police investigated allegations related to his links to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. A judicial spokesperson confirmed that Andrew...

New Delhi: A British Airways flight operating from London to Chicago declared an emergency while flying over Ireland, prompting the aircraft to squawk the 7700 emergency code and descend to around 9,000 feet, according to flight-tracking data Monday. According to flight-tracking website Flightradar24, flight BA295...