International

Beijing: NSA Ajit Doval Tuesday called on the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) to hold perpetrators, organisers, and financiers of cross-border terror to account, widely seen as a demand to act against Pakistan-backed terrorism. In his address at a conclave of top security officials of the...

Beersheba: A tentative truce faltered Tuesday when Israel vowed to retaliate after saying Iran launched missiles into its airspace more than two hours after the ceasefire was supposed to take effect. Iran's military denied firing on Israel, state media reported, but explosions boomed and sirens...

Tokyo: Japan's army announced Tuesday that it conducted a missile test for the first time on Japanese territory. The test-firing of the Type-88 surface-to-ship short-range missile was conducted Tuesday at an army firing range in Japan's northern main island of Hokkaido. Japan is accelerating its...

Seoul: North Korea has held a key party meeting to review the implementation of state policies in the first half of the year, state media reported Tuesday, without disclosing details of a speech by its leader, Kim Jong-un, in a rare move. The North convened...

Deir al-Balah: Israeli forces and drones opened fire toward hundreds of people waiting for aid trucks in central Gaza early Tuesday, killing at least 25 people, Palestinian witnesses and hospitals said. The Israeli military did not immediately comment. The Awda hospital in the urban Nuseirat...

Tel Aviv: The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) Tuesday announced that the Israeli Air Force struck missile launchers in Iran that were ready to be launched towards Israeli territory. "Air Force aircraft attacked in western Iran in recent hours, destroying missile launchers that were ready to...

Beersheba: Israel and Iran Tuesday accepted a ceasefire plan proposed by US President Donald Trump to end their 12-day war that roiled the Middle East, after Tehran launched a retaliatory limited missile attack on a US military base in Qatar. The acceptance of the deal...

Beijing: National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval Tuesday met Aleksandr Venediktov, Deputy Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, on the sidelines of the 20th Meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Security Council Secretaries in Beijing. "H.E. Aleksandr Venediktov, Deputy Secretary of...

New Delhi: India has, for the first time, broken into the top 100 countries in the global Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) rankings. The country secured a spot among 167 nations assessed for their progress in achieving the United Nations-mandated goals, according to a report released...

By Arindam Ganguly, OP Bhubaneswar: Members of the Odia diaspora in America preferred to play down the recent Level-2 travel advisory issued by the US state department for India, suggesting its citizens to ‘exercise increased caution’ due to rising concerns over crime and terrorism, by...