International

Islamabad: Seven people died after 18 tourists, including women and children, were carried away by flash floods Friday in the Swat River in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The incident occurred in the Fizagat area, where the members of two families were having breakfast near the riverbank...

Qingdao: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has proposed to his Chinese counterpart Dong Jun that India and China should solve the "complex issues" under a structured roadmap comprising steps to de-escalate tensions along the frontiers and rejuvenate the existing mechanism to demarcate the borders. Singh and...

Bangkok: The US and China have signed an agreement on trade, President Donald Trump said, adding he expects to soon have a deal with India. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told Bloomberg TV that the deal was signed earlier this week. Neither Lutnick nor Trump provided...

Hanoi: Asia's dependence on Middle East oil and gas, and its relatively slow shift to clean energy, make it vulnerable to disruptions in shipments through the Strait of Hormuz, a strategic weakness highlighted by the war between Israel and Iran. Iran sits on the strait,...

New Delhi: The world's third-richest man, tech billionaire and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, is all set to marry former journalist Lauren Sanchez Friday in what is being described as a star-studded wedding. The extravagant celebration, hosted in Venice, Italy, is expected to cost approximately Rs...

Kyiv: Ukrainian forces have halted Russia's recent advance into the northern Sumy region and have stabilised the front line near the border with Russia, Ukraine's top military commander said Thursday. Col. Gen. Oleksandr Syrskyi, commander in chief of Ukraine's armed forces, said that Ukrainian successes...

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...