Jakarta: Search and rescue operations for a helicopter that went missing while flying over Indonesia's Borneo island with eight people, including an Indian national, on board continued Tuesday. The Estindo Air BK 117 D3 helicopter, carrying eight people, including a pilot, an engineer and six...
New Delhi: Five agreements providing for boosting ties in sectors such as shipping, civil aviation and space will be inked between India and Singapore during Singaporean Prime Minister Lawrence Wong's three-day trip to New Delhi beginning Tuesday. Authoritative sources said the overall focus of Wong's...
Cairo: A massive landslide has destroyed a village in Sudan’s western Darfur region, killing more than 1,000 people, according to a rebel group controlling the area. The disaster is among the deadliest in the country’s recent history. The tragedy happened Sunday in the Tarasin village...
New York/Washington: Amid tensions between India and the US, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said at the end of the day, the “two great countries will get this solved”, adding that Delhi's values are much closer to “ours and to China's than to Russia's." Bessent, in...
Quetta: Leading Baloch human rights defender Mir Yar Baloch Monday accused Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif of branding the “peaceful and legitimate” Baloch freedom struggle as terrorism to conceal Pakistan’s own war crimes and serve the ambitions of its military establishment across Balochistan. The human...
Tianjin: India and Russia Monday vowed to strengthen their strategic ties against the backdrop of New Delhi's frictions with the US, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi telling Russian President Vladimir Putin that the two countries stood "shoulder-to-shoulder" even in most difficult times. Modi and Putin...
New York/Washington: US President Donald Trump Monday claimed that India has now "offered" to cut its tariffs to nothing, “but it's getting late”, as he said that India buys most of its oil and military products from Russia and very little from the US. "What...
New Delhi/Kabul: External Affairs Minister (EAM) S Jaishankar Monday spoke with Afghanistan's Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi, expressing condolences over the loss of lives in the earthquake that struck the war-ravaged country Sunday night. Wishing early recovery to those injured, the EAM expressed India's full...
Kabul: Desperate Afghans clawed through rubble in the dead of the night in search of missing loved ones after a strong earthquake killed some 800 people and injured more than 2,500 in eastern Afghanistan, according to figures provided Monday by the Taliban government. The 6.0...
Brussels: A plane carrying European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was hit by GPS jamming over Bulgaria in a suspected Russian operation, a spokesperson said Monday. The plane landed safely in Plovdiv airport, and von der Leyen will continue her planned tour of the...
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