International

New Delhi: The US Embassy in India Monday announced that it has opened an additional 250,000 visa appointments for Indian travellers, including tourists, skilled workers, and students. "The recently released new slots will help hundreds of thousands of Indian applicants take timely interviews, facilitating the...

Kathmandu:  The death toll in the devastating floods and landslides triggered by incessant rainfall in Nepal rose to 192 by Monday morning. The floods and landslides have left 30 missing and 194 others injured, said Rishiram Tiwari, spokesperson for the home ministry. "Over 4,500 people...

Washington: External Affairs Minister (EAM) S. Jaishankar is set to meet US Secretary of State Antony Blinken Tuesday, where a range of bilateral and global issues will be on the agenda. Among the key topics expected to be discussed are the Russia-Ukraine conflict and the...

Seoul: South Korea's media regulator said Monday that Telegram has pledged to adopt a zero-tolerance policy and immediately remove deepfake p*rnography and other illegal content from its platform, in cooperation with local authorities. The Korea Communications Standards Commission (KCSC) said it had a face-to-face working-level...

Washington: The NASA-SpaceX spacecraft, carrying Crew-9 members NASA astronaut Nick Hague (commander) and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov (mission specialist), was on its way to the International Space Station (ISS) Sunday, in a mission that aims to bring stranded Indian-origin astronaut Sunita Williams back to Earth...

Jerusalem: The Israeli military says dozens of aircraft have struck Houthi targets in Yemen in response to recent attack on Israel. The military said it targeted power plants and sea port facilities in the city of Hodeida. The Houthis launched a ballistic missile attack on...

Jerusalem: The Israeli military Sunday said that it has killed another high-ranking Hezbollah official in an airstrike. The military said Nabil Kaouk, the deputy head of Hezbollah's Central Council, was killed in an airstrike Saturday. There was no immediate comment from Hezbollah. Several senior Hezbollah...

Kathmandu: The death toll from rain-triggered floodings and landslides across Nepal climbed to 112 Sunday, police said. Large swathes of eastern and central Nepal have been inundated since Friday, with flash floods reported in parts of the country. According to the Armed Police Force sources,...

Islamabad: At least seven ethnic Punjabi labourers were killed Sunday by suspected militants in Pakistan's restive Balochistan province in the latest incident of targeted killing in the volatile region. The workers were employed for the construction of a house in the Khuda-i-Abadan area of Panjgur...

Tehran: Iran's UN Ambassador Amir Saeid Iravani wrote a letter to the heads of the United Nations and the Security Council Saturday calling for an emergency council meeting over the attack that killed Nasrallah. “Using US-supplied thousand-pound bunker busters,” he wrote, Israel killed Nasrallah and...