International

Guwahati: Home Minister Amit Shah Saturday said the government will stop the free movement of people at the Myanmar border and will protect it like that of Bangladesh. Addressing the passing out parade of the first batch of the five newly-constituted Assam Police Commando battalions,...

United Nations: Women and children are the main victims in the Israel-Hamas war, with some 16,000 killed and an estimated two mothers losing their lives every hour since Hamas' surprise attack on Israel, the United Nations agency promoting gender equality said Friday. As a result...

Jerusalem: Iran said Saturday it had conducted a successful satellite launch into its highest orbit yet, the latest for a program the West fears improves Tehran's ballistic missiles. The announcement comes as heightened tensions grip the wider Middle East over Israel's ongoing war on Hamas...

Kathmandu: Nepal has requested Russia to not admit Nepalese nationals into the Russian Army and help repatriate those who have already joined the country's forces to fight the war in Ukraine. At least 200 Nepalese youths have joined the Russian Army through illegal channels and...

Beijing: At least 21 people, including school students, were killed in two separate fire incidents in China, local authorities said Saturday. In the first accident, 13 students were confirmed killed in a fire that took place at the Yingcai School in Henan Province's Yanshanpu village...

New Delhi: The leader of pro-Khalistan Sikhs For Justice (SFJ), Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, has warned that the Chief Ministers of Delhi and Punjab will face a 'political death' if his associates are not released by next month. Pannun's threat comes hours after the arrest of...

Tokyo: Japan became the fifth country in history to reach the moon when its spacecraft landed on the lunar surface early Saturday, officials said. However, an issue with the power supply means that the mission could be in jeopardy. Officials also said they needed more...

Washington: Keeping his Vice Presidential choice tightly under wraps, Republican frontrunner and former US President Donald Trump has ruled out Indian-American rival Nikki Haley as his running mate for 2024. Addressing a rally Friday at Concord, in the run-up to the New Hampshire nominating contest,...

Washington: Former US president Donald Trump has lobbed racially charged attacks at his Indian-American Republican rival Nikki Haley by repeatedly referring to her as ‘Nimbra’, in an apparent intentional misspelling of her birth name. Trump's attack against Haley, a daughter of Indian immigrants who served...

Beijing: At least 13 people were killed when a fire broke out in a school dormitory in central China's Henan province, the official media reported Saturday. The fire at the Yingcai School in Henan's Yanshanpu village was reported to the local fire department at 11...