International

Casablanca: Morocco's King Mohammed VI Tuesday named Urban Planning Minister Fatima Zahra Mansouri as the country's prime minister, making the 50-year-old attorney the first woman to hold the position in the Muslim kingdom. Mansouri, who until her nomination was also the mayor of Marrakech, was...

Baghdad: US forces are set to pull out from their last bases in Iraq by Wednesday, a departure celebrated as a victory by Iran and its allies who now have deep influence in the country where 4,500 Americans died during more than two decades of...

New Delhi: India Tuesday rejected the "unwarranted references" to the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir made by Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan during his address at the UN General Assembly (UNGA) recently, asserting that no external party has any locus standi on the issue....

New Delhi: The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) Tuesday stated that there are currently 163 Indian seafarers on board 12 commercial vessels in the Persian Gulf transiting through West of Strait of Hormuz. "At this point in time, we have six India-flag commercial vessels in...

New York: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has warned of a "major food crisis" in the coming months, in addition to the already significant fertiliser shortages the world is witnessing due to the Ukraine and Iran conflicts, saying the situation is "very very stressful" for...

Kathmandu: Nepal is planning to import up to 1,100 MW of electricity from India during the upcoming dry season to meet peak domestic demand, as recent flash floods, landslides and heavy monsoon rains have damaged hydropower projects and temporarily reduced the country's generation capacity. The...

Kathmandu: At least 27 people have been killed in rain-induced disasters across Nepal since September 24, officials said Tuesday. Four people remain missing, and eight have been injured in incidents linked to heavy rainfall, including floods and landslides, according to the National Disaster Risk Reduction...

Doha: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has held bilateral meetings with ministers from Saudi Arabia, Switzerland, Jordan and Nepal on the sidelines of the AIIB annual meeting. On the first day of her visit to Qatar September 28, Sitharaman met her Saudi counterpart Mohammed Al-Jadaan who...

New York: Terrorism emanating from its neighbour is one of India's primary concerns, and if this is not fully appreciated by New Delhi's partners, it impacts bilateral ties, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said, alluding to India-US relations amid upswing in Washington-Islamabad ties. The...

San Francisco: OpenAI said Monday it was delaying the release of a new artificial intelligence model out of security concerns voiced by its researchers, the latest in the company's effort to decelerate the pace of the technology's advance. OpenAI's decision to hold back the model,...