International

Male: India has signed 13 MoUs with the Maldives for enhancing ferry services in the island nation with an MVR 100 million grant, expanding maritime connectivity and uplifting community livelihoods. The MoUs signed Sunday are for projects to be implemented under the Indian grant assistance...

New Delhi: Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist Razaullah Nizamani Khalid alias Abu Saifullah Khalid, who was the brain behind the 2006 attack on the RSS headquarters, was killed by three unidentified gunmen in Sindh province of Pakistan Sunday, officials here said. Khalid used to head the terror operations...

Colombo: Sri Lankan police said Sunday they are investigating a shooting incident targeting the vehicle of a former aide of ex-president Ranil Wickremesinghe. Thusitha Halloluwa, the former Director General of Public Relations to Wickremesinghe, was travelling with his lawyer and another person in Colombo's suburb...

Islamabad: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has slapped 11 new conditions on Pakistan for the release of the next tranche of its bailout programme and warned that tensions with India could heighten risks to the scheme's fiscal, external, and reform goals, according to a media...

Seoul: Firefighters made all-out efforts Sunday to extinguish a fire at Kumho Tire's plant, with the fire believed to be some 80 per cent contained, according to authorities. The fire began Saturday morning at the factory in Gwangju, some 270 kilometres southeast of Seoul. About...

Islamabad: In yet another move imitating India's actions, Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has asked former Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari to present the country's “case for peace" to foreign capitals. In another example of imitating India after facing humiliation in a four-day military escalation from...

New Delhi: The Ministry of External Affairs Saturday described as ‘utter misrepresentation’ claims that External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar acknowledged that India alerted Pakistan before the launch of Operation Sindoor May 7. The clarification came after Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's criticism of the government suggesting...

New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi Saturday hit out at the government for ‘informing’ Pakistan about targeting terror infrastructure as part of Operation Sindoor, saying it was a crime and asking who had authorised it. In a post on X, Gandhi questioned External Affairs Minister...

Jerusalem: Israel has launched a major operation in the Gaza Strip to pressure Hamas to release remaining hostages, the defence minister said Saturday, following days of intensive strikes across the territory that killed hundreds of people. Defence Minister Israel Katz said that Operation Gideon Chariots...

New Delhi: India's Operation Sindoor has reverberated through Pakistan's military circles, showcasing the unparalleled precision and strategic military acumen of the Indian armed forces. The magnitude of the operation took Pakistan's leadership by surprise, even the Prime Minister of Pakistan Shehbaz Sharif acknowledged that the...