International

New Delhi/Moscow: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Tuesday told a top Kremlin aide that he is looking forward to host Russian President Vladimir Putin in India next month. Prime Minister Modi conveyed his "warm greetings" to President Putin as Nikolai Patrushev, aide to the Russian President...

Boston: Larry Summers, the former president of Harvard University who once served as US treasury secretary, issued a statement saying he would step back from public commitments after the release of emails showing he maintained a friendly relationship with Jeffrey Epstein long after the financier...

New Delhi: A widespread internet outage struck several global digital platforms Tuesday, leaving millions of users unable to access services like X, OpenAI's ChatGPT, Perplexity AI, Google Cloud, and Canva. Popular gaming titles League of Legends and Valorant were also impacted. The disruption has been...

Beijing/Tokyo: Officials from China and Japan Tuesday held talks in Beijing to tone down tensions over Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's recent remarks on Taiwan, which led to a sharp deterioration in bilateral ties. Liu Jinsong, Director General of the Department of Asian Affairs of...

Jerusalem: An Israeli was killed and three were wounded in an attack Tuesday at an intersection in the West Bank, Israel's rescue service said, following a spate of settler attacks on Palestinians across the occupied territory. The violence came a day after the UN Security...

Moscow: India Tuesday said that the world must display "zero tolerance" towards terrorism in all its forms and manifestations, asserting that there can be no justification, no looking away and "no whitewashing". "As India has demonstrated, we have the right to defend our people against...

Beijing: China Tuesday said the death sentence handed down to deposed Bangladeshi prime minister Sheikh Hasina is an "internal affair" of Dhaka, as it declined to offer any further comment on the development. Hasina, 78, was Monday sentenced to death in absentia by Bangladesh's International...

Dubai: The Consulate General of India in Jeddah has set up a camp office in Madina to assist the families of Indians who died in a bus accident involving Hajj pilgrims in Saudi Arabia, the mission said Tuesday. Forty-four Indian Umrah pilgrims, including 42 from...

United Nations: The United Nations has said that the verdict against Bangladesh's ousted prime minister, Sheikh Hasina on charges of crimes against humanity is an “important moment” for the victims, but expressed regret over the imposition of the death penalty. UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres...

Kabul: A total of 309 individuals who had been struggling with drug addiction have made a full recovery and rejoined their families in southern Afghanistan's Kandahar province, state-run media reported Tuesday. The former addicts from the provincial capital Kandahar City and other districts of the...