International

New Delhi: Amid India’s objections to the International Monetary Fund bailout package to Pakistan, the IMF has said the debt-ridden country "met all the required targets" to receive the latest loan installment. The IMF recently gave the nod to a $ 1 billion (over Rs...

Washington: The Trump administration revoked Harvard University's ability to enroll international students in its escalating battle with the Ivy League school, saying thousands of current students must transfer to other schools or leave the country. The Department of Homeland Security announced the action Thursday, saying...

Washington: The Republican-controlled US House of Representatives has narrowly passed a sweeping tax and spending bill, despite prior warnings from budget groups that the legislation would significantly increase federal debt. The bill was approved by a vote of 215 to 214, Xinhua news agency reported....

Dhaka: Bangladesh's interim government chief Muhammad Yunus is mulling resignation as he is finding it difficult to work in view of political parties failing to reach a common ground to bring a change in the country, according to a media report. Student-led National Citizen Party...

Lahore: Army chief Gen Asim Munir should have given himself the title of ‘king’ instead of field marshal as Pakistan is currently governed by the jungle law, jailed former premier Imran Khan said Thursday. Gen Munir was promoted to the rank of Field Marshal Tuesday...

London: Britain signed an agreement Thursday to hand sovereignty over the contested Chagos Islands to Mauritius, a move the government says ensures the future of a US-UK military base that is vital to British security. The Indian Ocean archipelago is home to a strategically important...

New Delhi: India Thursday emphasised that it expects Turkey to ‘strongly urge’ Pakistan to end its support to cross-border terrorism and take credible and verifiable actions against the terror ecosystem it has harboured for decades. "We expect Turkey to strongly urge Pakistan to end its...

Moscow: Russia and Ukraine have scheduled no further direct talks on ending their more than three-year war, a Kremlin spokesman said Thursday, almost a week after the first face-to-face engagement between the countries' delegations since 2022 and days after US President Donald Trump announced they...

New Delhi: India Thursday reiterated that any India-Pakistan engagement has to be bilateral, at the same time making it clear once again that the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) will remain in abeyance until Pakistan ‘credibly and irrevocably abjures’ its support for cross-border terrorism. "Any India-Pakistan...

Tokyo: Japan, which shares a 'Special Strategic and Global Partnership' with India Thursday condemned in the strongest terms the growing threat of terrorism as the country hosted a visiting delegation of Indian Parliamentarians led by Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Kumar Jha. The all-party parliamentary delegation...