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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...

New Delhi: US-based technology giant Apple Tuesday formally ushered in a new leadership era as John Ternus took over as chief executive officer (CEO), succeeding Tim Cook -- who led the world's most valuable technology company for 15 years. Ternus becomes Apple's CEO effective September...

London: An Indian citizen was among 12 people killed in the latest Russian attacks on Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Tuesday. In a social media post, Zelenskyy said since Monday evening, guided aerial bomb and drone strikes have continued against Odesa and the region. Overall,...

Bishkek: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Tuesday called for dismantling the entire ecosystem of terrorism -- financing, recruitment, radicalisation and safe havens. Addressing the 26th Meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) in Kyrgyzstan's Bishkek Tuesday, PM Modi said,...