International

Thimphu: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Friday arrived in Bhutan on a two-day State visit to further cement India's unique relations with the Himalayan nation as part of the country's 'Neighbourhood First' Policy. Modi was accorded a red carpet welcome upon his arrival at the Paro...

Rome: Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni has been asked to testify in court July 2 in the trial of two men who are accused of making deep fake pornographic images using her face and posting them online, Italian news agency ANSA reported. Meloni, who is listed...

Colombo: To meet the sharp rise in the cost of construction in Sri Lanka due to the ongoing financial crisis, India would provide up to 50 per cent additional funds to grant projects in the island nation. High Commissioner of India, Santosh Jha, and Secretary,...

Islamabad: Two soldiers were killed and 15 others injured in a suicide attack in Pakistan's northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Thursday, official sources confirmed. The incident happened in Dera Ismail Khan district of the province when some unknown militants opened fire at a convoy of...

Colombo/Washington: The IMF Thursday said it has reached a staff-level agreement with Sri Lanka for the next phase that would enable it access to $337 million from the nearly $3 billion bailout approved in 2023 for the cash-strapped country. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) also...

Kyiv: Russia fired 31 ballistic and cruise missiles at Kyiv before dawn Thursday in the first attack on the Ukrainian capital in 44 days, officials said. Air defences shot down all the incoming missiles, though 13 people including a child were injured by falling wreckage,...

Beijing: China Thursday said it firmly opposes the US recognition of Arunachal Pradesh as part of Indian territory and affirmed that Washington has nothing to do with the India-China border dispute. It also accused the US of “instigating and using other countries' disputes” for selfish...

New Delhi: Israel said Thursday that it is completely devastated by the information unravelling about the brutal killing of two young brothers in Uttar Pradesh and called the incident ‘heartbreaking’. The children, aged 13 and six, were allegedly hacked to death by a local barber...

New Delhi: In a first, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk Thursday shared a video clip where a person was seen playing video games just by thinking, courtesy the Neuralink brain chip. Paraplegic Noland Arbaugh, 29, was seen in a video shared to X using...

Washington: Recognising Arunachal Pradesh as Indian territory, the US has said that it "strongly opposes" any unilateral attempts to advance territorial claims across the Line of Actual Control (LAC). The remarks came with Beijing repeatedly asserting that it "never acknowledges and firmly opposes" the "so-called...