United Nations: India called out Pakistan for misusing UN platforms to drive its "divisive agenda" after Islamabad's envoy raised the issue of Jammu and Kashmir in the General Assembly. Counsellor in the Permanent Mission of India to the UN Eldos Mathew Punnoose Thursday said that...
Mumbai: Counting of votes for the 29 municipal corporations in Maharashtra, including the high-stakes BMC, started at 10 a.m Friday. The process is being carried out across designated counting centres in Mumbai, Pune, Thane, and other major cities under tight security. Early postal ballot trends...
Moscow: Moscow agrees with US President Donald Trump's view that Ukraine is holding up a peace deal to end the almost four years of fighting since Russia invaded its neighbour, a Kremlin official said Thursday. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said, "Yes, we can agree with...
Mumbai: Pilots' body FIP has served a legal notice to the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) regarding the summoning of a nephew of Sumeet Sabharwal, one of the pilots who died in an Air India plane crash at Ahmedabad in June last year. In connection...
Washington: The US is imposing new sanctions on Iranian officials accused of repressing protests against Iran's theocratic government. The Treasury Department Thursday targeted the secretary of the Supreme Council for National Security for allegedly calling for violence against protesters. The sanctions also affect 18 people...
Washington: US forces in the Caribbean Sea have seized another sanctioned oil tanker, the Trump administration says has ties to Venezuela, coming as part of a broader US effort to take control of the South American country's oil. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem wrote Thursday...
New Delhi: India is making preparations to evacuate Indians from Iran in view of the precarious situation there as the US has not ruled out any military action against Tehran over its crackdown on nationwide protests. India Wednesday asked all its nationals residing in Iran...
New Delhi: India and the European Union may sign the proposed free trade agreement as early as this month during the official visit of the top EU leaders to New Delhi, who will also be the chief guests at the prestigious Republic Day parade January...
Cape Canaveral: An ailing astronaut returned to Earth with three others Thursday, ending their space station mission more than a month early in NASA's first medical evacuation. SpaceX guided the capsule to a middle-of-the-night splashdown in the Pacific near San Diego, less than 11 hours...
Moscow: Russia, Thursday expelled a British diplomat suspected of spying after FSB counter-intelligence established his links with UK secret services. The Federal Security Service (FSB) stated that Gareth Samuel Davies, a secretary at the British Embassy in Moscow, is working for the UK secret services....
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