International

New Delhi: In a significant feat under Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visionary government, India has made key strides in the last decade in reducing its extreme poverty rate, which fell to 5.3 per cent in 2022–23 from 27.1 per cent in 2011–12, latest World Bank...

Islamabad/New Delhi: With its citizens deeply worried now about the country staring down the barrel of a major water crisis, a desperate Pakistan has written to India as many as four times, pleading New Delhi to reconsider its decision of suspending the Indus Waters Treaty...

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Friday said he will be attending the G7 Summit later this month in Canada and that he looked forward to meeting his newly elected Canadian counterpart Mark Carney. PM Modi thanked Carney for an invite to the Summit, scheduled...

Mumbai: A shocking revelation has come to light about Hafiz Saeed, chief of the terrorist organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba in Pakistan. His son, Hafiz Talha Saeed, has now openly stated that Hafiz Saeed is completely safe and comfortably under the protection of the Pakistan government. In a...

Washington: As President Donald Trump and Elon Musk argued on social media Thursday, the world's richest man threatened to decommission a space capsule used to take astronauts and supplies to the International Space Station. After Trump threatened to cut government contracts given to Musk's SpaceX...

Brescia (Italy): India and Italy have agreed to increase cooperation in areas such as manufacturing, auto, aerospace, energy transition, migration and mobility, an official statement said Friday. These issues were discussed during the meetings between Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal and Italy's Deputy Prime...

Washington: President Donald Trump Thursday threatened to cut Elon Musk's government contracts as their fractured alliance rapidly escalated into a public feud, with Trump suggesting he would use the US government to hurt his fellow billionaire financially. The spectacular blow-up between the president of the...

Washington: A federal judge late Thursday temporarily blocked a proclamation by President Donald Trump that banned foreign students from entering the US to attend Harvard University. Trump's proclamation, issued Wednesday, was the latest attempt by his administration to prevent the nation's oldest and wealthiest college...

Washington: Investors bought hundreds of billions of dollars of Tesla stock after Donald Trump was elected on a bet that politics were more important than profits. In three hours Thursday, they learned yet again how dangerous that gamble could be. Shares of Elon Musk's electric...

Brasilia: Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla held a bilateral meeting with Dr Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Speaker of the Majles of Iran, on the sidelines of the 11th BRICS Parliamentary Forum held in Brazil’s capital, and discussed ancient and cordial relations between the two nations with...