International

Tehran: Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) claimed attacking two US vessels and eight oil tankers in the Persian Gulf in retaliation to a US attack on five Iranian tankers, Iranian state media reported Wednesday. In a statement published by its official news outlet Sepah...

Kathmandu: A seven-member parliamentary sub-committee was set up Wednesday to assess the impact of the devastating Rasuwa flash flood on Nepal's economy and examine issues related to climate finance, officials said. The panel was formed at a meeting of the Finance Committee of the House...

New York: The price of oil surpassed USD 100 a barrel for the first time in almost six weeks after attacks on oil facilities and ships in the Middle East threatened to debilitate an already weakened supply chain. The most heavily traded contract for a...

Dhaka: Amid escalating attacks on minorities across Bangladesh, two Hindus, including a woman, were killed in separate incidents, raising fresh concerns over the safety of the minority communities in the country, local media reported. In one of the latest incidents, 45-year-old Alif Chandra Dutta, a...

New Delhi: A full-blown confrontation is on the cards in Balochistan. With the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) stepping up attacks in the region, Pakistani establishment finds itself on the backfoot. The establishment has now planned to set up several death squads in the region to...

Colombo: An Indian national who was killed during a deadly riot at a prison in Sri Lanka's western coastal town of Negombo in July was buried under special police protection, authorities said. The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) told the Negombo Magistrate's Court Tuesday that the...

Colombo: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh met Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake in Colombo Wednesday, and both sides reaffirmed their commitment to work together for the welfare and development of both nations. During the meeting, Singh conveyed Prime Minister Narendra Modi's warm greetings to Dissanayake....

New Delhi: India Wednesday condemned the latest wave of attacks carried out by Houthi militants on oil installations in Saudi Arabia, and said the strikes undermined regional security. The Iran-backed Houthi militant group targeted Saudi oil facilities and some other civilian infrastructure Tuesday, triggering widespread...

Washington: US military said it destroyed five Iranian oil tankers Tuesday in response to the latest attacks on its warships and Tehran hit back at American targets in Jordan, the latest burst of back-and-forth strikes that have lurched the sides back toward open hostilities in...

Islamabad: Pakistan said there should be "no ambiguity" that an attack on any one of the three members of the newly formed Makkah Defence Alliance would be treated as an attack on all, as it warned that the pact could become operative following Houthi strikes...