International

New Delhi: Seventeen Indians are on board an Israeli-linked container ship that has been seized by the Iranian military amid heightened tensions between Iran and Israel. Official sources said India is in touch with Iranian authorities through diplomatic channels, both in Tehran and in Delhi,...

Dubai: Italian-Swiss Shipping group MSC April 13 informed that there were 25 crew members – including 17 Indians -- on board a container ship seized by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards in the Gulf of Hormuz. The group said in a statement “We regret to confirm that...

Dubai: Commandos from Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard rappelled down from a helicopter onto an Israeli-affiliated container ship near the Strait of Hormuz and seized the vessel Saturday, the latest in a series of attacks between the two countries. The Middle East had braced for potential...

Dubai: The British military warned Saturday that a vessel may have been boarded by an unknown party near the crucial Strait of Hormuz. The warning from the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations offered no details about the boarding in the Gulf of Oman off the...

Sydney: Six people and a suspect were killed in a Sydney shopping centre stabbing attack Saturday that left multiple people, including a small child, injured, police said. A single person began stabbing people in the mall, attacking nine people, before a police inspector shot him,...

Sydney: Media reports say multiple people have been stabbed and that the police shot a person at a Sydney shopping centre. ABC TV in Australia reported Saturday that police evacuated shoppers at Westfield Shopping Centre in Bondi Junction. The Sydney Morning Herald reported that four...

Pune: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said that India was committed to responding to any act of terrorism perpetrated from across the borders, and asserted that since terrorists do not play by rules, there cannot be any rules in the country's answer to them....

Karachi: At least 11 people, including nine bus passengers, have been killed by unknown militants in Pakistan's restive Balochistan province Friday. In the first incident, armed men stopped a bus on the highway in Noshki district and kidnapped nine men at gunpoint, police said. “The...

Tel Aviv: The Israeli intelligence agencies Mossad and Shin Bet have reported to the Israel war cabinet that Iran could conduct a minor drone attack on Israeli military establishments. Sources in Israel's Defence Ministry told IANS that the agencies have informed that Iran would not...

Washington: Foreign Secretary Vinay Kwatra has met several US senior officials, including Deputy Secretary of Defence Kathleen Hicks, to undertake a detailed review of the progress on further consolidating the bilateral strategic ties and discussed their shared efforts to promote stability and security in the...