International

Kathmandu: "Broad Peak, I ask for nothing but safe passage up and back down. I take zero mountains for granted. Not one," Nirmal Purja posted on his X account three days before he went missing on the 8,051-metre peak in the Karakoram Range. But it...

Dhaka: US Special Envoy for South and Central Asia Sergio Gor Saturday discussed bilateral ties, trade and investment with Bangladesh Prime Minister Tarique Rahman and called on Dhaka to join the US-led Pax Silica initiative, local media reported. In a meeting with PM Rahman at...

Peshawar: Unidentified gunmen killed a Pakistani cleric in the country's northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, police said Saturday. According to the police, the incident occurred Friday in Birmal tehsil of South Waziristan district when the armed assailants attacked the cleric identified as Maulana Muhammad Ismail, who...

Washington: India's ambassador to the US, Vinay Mohan Kwatra, has met senior US Department of State official Allison Hooker and discussed advancing the bilateral partnership. Kwatra met Hooker, the US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, Friday. Pleased to meet Under Secretary Allison Hooker...

Kyiv: At least nine people were killed and 22 civilians injured in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv after Russia launched an intense barrage of ballistic missiles and drones overnight into Saturday, authorities said. A five-story residential building in the city's Solomianskyi District was damaged by falling...

Washington: Two powerful House committees have launched a fresh investigation into DoorDash's use of a Chinese-developed artificial intelligence model, raising concerns that the growing adoption of Chinese AI by American companies could pose national security, cybersecurity and economic security risks. The House Select Committee on...

Colombo: A three-judge High Court panel in Sri Lanka has sentenced former Inspector General of Police Pujith Jayasundara to death after a majority of judges found him guilty of failing to prevent the 2019 Easter Sunday terror attacks despite receiving prior intelligence. The court Friday...

Kyiv: At least three people were killed and over a dozen others injured after Russia launched an intense barrage of ballistic missiles and drones targeting Kyiv overnight into Saturday, local authorities said. A five-story residential building in the Solomianskyi District was damaged by falling debris,...

New Delhi: India Friday strongly urged Iran to avoid attacks on commercial shipping and seafarers under any circumstances with External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar conveying to his Iranian counterpart Abbas Araghchi that New Delhi condemns any such strike by any party. Jaishankar said this during...

New Delhi: A total of 4,840 Indian nationals have been deported by the US since 2025, including 1,273 between January and July this year, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said Friday. "The total number of Indians deported from the US to India in 2026,...