International

New Delhi: The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said Friday that an emergency certificate has been issued to Akshay Harish, an Indian seafarer who was disembarked from a merchant vessel at Iran’s Chabahar Port after he was told that his passport and documents were lost....

New Delhi: India Friday said it desires a "positive, constructive and forward-looking" relationship with Bangladesh, remarks that came amid ongoing diplomatic friction and postponement of the bilateral consular dialogue. The relations between the two neighbours came under fresh strain following former Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh...

Washington: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has resigned from his top post at the chipmaker he co-founded, after reports of the tech titan's extramarital affairs came into the spotlight this week. One of those relationships has raised national security concerns. The New York Times reported that...

Washington: President Donald Trump Thursday threatened to double tariffs on Mexico unless it stopped migrant caravans travelling towards the United States, linking trade penalties to his demand for tighter immigration enforcement. In a Truth Social post, Trump said groups were forming and moving through Mexico....

New Delhi: US-based technology giant Microsoft Friday admitted that its fixes are not "working as expected" as a mega outage hit millions of users across Microsoft 365 services globally. In a statement on X, the company said it had monitored the status of the changes...

Chicago: A widespread outage hit Microsoft platforms, including Outlook, Thursday, with many users encountering trouble using their email accounts and other errors across the tech giant's suite of apps. Nearly 1,30,000 users on outage tracker Downdetector reported problems accessing Outlook just after 1 pm local...

New Delhi: Former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has asserted that the risk of being arrested, imprisoned or killed would not deter her from returning to Dhaka, saying she would rather die in her homeland than remain away from her people. In a rare audio...

Muscat: India’s Ambassador to Oman, Prashant Pise, visited an Indian seafarer injured in the recent attack on Indian vessel MSV Quba at a hospital in Oman’s Sohar, the Embassy of India in Muscat said on Thursday. “Ambassador Prashant Pise visited the injured Indian seafarer at...

Washington: Five people were shot early Thursday in a trendy Washington, DC, neighbourhood within walking distance of the White House, said police, who were responding to multiple locations. The shooter had not been caught, and the locations of the shootings were unclear, police department spokesperson...

New Delhi: A Liberia-flagged crude oil tanker, carrying 19 Indian seafarers, was targeted in a projectile attack while drifting off Mina Saqr November 11, Shipping Minister Sarbananda Sonowal said Thursday. Sonowal, in a social media post on X, said the entire 22-member crew of MT...