International

Moscow: Russian President Vladimir Putin's helicopter was caught in the "epicentre" of a massive Ukrainian drone offensive during his first visit to the liberated Kursk Region earlier this week, a Russian military commander has revealed. However, air defence units in the region managed to beat...

New York/Manama/Seoul: India now has a new approach in combating cross-border terrorism from Pakistan and anyone involved in such crimes will not go unpunished, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor said in New York hours before he led a delegation of Parliamentarians to Guayana. Tharoor made the...

Moscow: India's National Security Advisor Ajit Doval is expected here early next week to attend a major security meeting organised by Russia's Security Council. Doval is invited for the 13th international meeting of high representatives for security issues May 27-29 under the chairmanship of the...

Lahore: At least 20 people were killed and over 150 injured in Pakistan's Punjab as powerful windstorms and heavy rains battered the province Saturday evening. The storm was so powerful that it paralysed road and air traffic, damaged infrastructure and caused widespread power outages. According...

Kyiv: Russia and Ukraine swapped hundreds more prisoners Sunday, the Russian defence ministry said, the third part of a major swap that was a moment of cooperation in otherwise failed efforts to reach a ceasefire. The ministry said each side brought home 303 more soldiers,...

New Delhi: President Donald Trump, on his return for a second ter,m was apparently creating a reputation for ‘unpredictability’ and even ‘arbitrariness’ by issuing a large number of Executive Directive,s many of which were being questioned in courts and evoking adverse reactions from the international...

Moscow: India and Russia share a time-tested relationship based on mutual trust and cooperation, and an all-party Indian delegation's engagements with Russian parliamentarians, officials and other stakeholders further deepened the bilateral strategic convergence on issues of global and regional significance, the Indian mission here has...

Kyiv: Russia and Ukraine exchanged hundreds more prisoners Saturday as part of a major swap that amounted to a rare moment of cooperation in otherwise failed efforts to reach a ceasefire. The exchange came hours after Kyiv came under a large-scale Russian drone and missile...

Moscow/Tokyo/Manama: All party delegations from India to Russia and Japan Saturday concluded their visits with ‘constructive meetings’ with diplomatic leaderships discussing global fight against terror as a third similar team reached Bahrain to highlight New Delhi's response to cross-border radicalism. The three delegations that exchanged...

Dhaka: Confronting a major political crisis after a chaotic last few months, the interim government in Bangladesh, led by Muhammad Yunus Saturday blamed ‘defeated forces’ and ‘foreign conspiracy’ for obstructing the normal functioning environment and creating confusion and suspicion among the public. Yunus chaired a...