International

New Delhi: Ninety-eight Indians have died during the annual Muslim pilgrimage of Haj to Mecca, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said Friday. MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said total deaths of Indians in the entire Haj period last year were 187. "This year, 1,75000 Indian...

New Delhi: India Friday was critical of the Canadian parliament observing "one minute silence" in the memory of Khalistan extremist Hardeep Singh Nijjar, who was gunned down in Surrey, British Columbia, in June last year. "We naturally oppose any moves giving political space to extremism...

Peshawar: An enraged mob in the picturesque Pakistani town of Swat has gunned down a tourist, dragged him through the town and later hanged him in full public view for allegedly committing desecration of the Quran. The incident happened Thursday night when Muhammad Ismail, a...

Miami: Former President Donald Trump has said in an interview that he wants to give automatic green cards to foreign students who graduate from US colleges, a sharp departure from the anti-immigrant rhetoric he typically uses on the campaign trail. Trump was asked about plans...

Seoul: The influential sister of North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un Friday hinted about launching more trash-carrying balloons into South Korea as she condemned "human scum" for sending what she described as "dirty wastepaper and things." On Thursday night, a North Korean defectors' group sent 20...

Washington: The US reiterated on Thursday that it continues to consider India a "close partner" and looks forward to continuing to work with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government in its third term This reassertion came at the US State Department’s briefing in response to a...

Seoul: South Korea's military said Friday that it had fired warnings shots the previous day to repel North Korean soldiers who temporarily crossed the rivals' land border for the third time this month. South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said several North Korean soldiers while...

Lahore: The political advisor to jailed former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan has reportedly been abducted by unknown men from Lahore, the capital of Punjab province, according to a media report Thursday. Ghulam Shabbir, who is the elder brother of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Shahbaz...

Kyiv: Russia resumed its aerial pounding of Ukraine's power grid and Kyiv's forces again targeted Russian oil facilities with cross-border drone strikes, officials said Thursday. With no major changes reported along the 1,000-kilometer (600-mile) front line, where a recent push by the Kremlin's forces in...

Colombo: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe Thursday jointly commissioned the Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre built with a $6 million grant from India, as New Delhi stepped up bilateral cooperation with its key neighbour. The minister also called on Prime...