International

Tel Aviv: The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) Friday announced that its 12-day military operation against Iran resulted in significant damage to three of the country’s main nuclear facilities, Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan, dealing a major blow to the Iranian regime’s nuclear infrastructure. The IDF asserted...

Washington: US President Donald Trump said a "very big" trade deal is on cards with India, hinting at significant progress in the negotiation process of a long-awaited bilateral trade agreement between the two countries. “We are having some great deals. We have one coming up,...

Dhaka: Bangladesh interim government of Muhammad Yunus Thursday dismissed the idea of any emerging alliance between Dhaka, Beijing and Islamabad, saying the recent meeting between the three countries was not “political”. “We are not forming any alliance,” foreign affairs adviser M Touhid Hossain told reporters...

New Delhi: India Thursday strongly condemned the demolition of the Durga Mandir (temple) in Dhaka, criticising the role of Muhammad Yunus-led interim government in allowing the destruction and projecting it as a case of illegal land use. "We understand that extremists were clamouring for the...

Nairobi: The number of Kenyans who died during Wednesday's nationwide protests over police brutality and bad governance has doubled to 16, according to the state-funded human rights commission. Property was also destroyed in the protests that attracted thousands of frustrated young Kenyans. At least two...

Dubai: Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei made his first public statement Thursday after the end of the Israel-Iran war. Khamenei took shelter in a secret location during the 12-day war as Israeli forces pounded Tehran before the US intervened on its behalf. AP

Ottawa: A 23-year-old Indian woman was brutally attacked and robbed near her home in Winnipeg, the capital of the Canadian province of Manitoba, and a teenager has been arrested in connection with the incident, police said. The woman, identified by community members as Tanpreet Kaur,...

Qingdao: The perpetrators and sponsors of terrorism must be held accountable, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh told a conclave of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Thursday, even as he chose not to sign a communique by the bloc for not explicitly addressing India's concerns over Pakistan-backed...

Qingdao (China): Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has called on the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) members to unequivocally condemn the evil and dastardly Pahalgam terror attack in India's Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) and said that any act of terrorism is "criminal and unjustifiable." During his address...

New York:  US President Donald Trump Wednesday repeated his claim that he stopped the war between India and Pakistan and told the two countries that America would not do trade with them if they continued with the fighting. India and Pakistan reached an understanding May...