International

Sanaa: The US and the UK have launched airstrikes on Yemen's port city of Hodeidah late Friday night, the media reported. The Houthi-run al-Masirah TV did not disclose the specific targets or other details. Meanwhile, in the early hours of Saturday, the US Central Command...

Kampala: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar Friday held a series of bilateral meetings with his counterparts from Bolivia, Azerbaijan, and Venezuela during which he discussed bilateral ties, as well as regional and global issues. Jaishankar is in the Ugandan capital city of Kampala to represent...

Davos: India Thursday announced here a new alliance for global good, gender equity, and equality, on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, with the WEF Founder and Chairman Klaus Schwab offering to partner this initiative with full support. The announcement was made...

Islamabad: General elections scheduled in Pakistan for February 8 won't be affected by the escalating tensions with Iran, the caretaker government and the election commission have said following the tit-for-tat exchange of strikes between the two neighbours this week. Pakistan Thursday used killer drones and...

Islamabad: Foreign Ministers of Pakistan and Iran are expected to hold talks over telephone Friday evening as the two sides began to pick threads of tattered ties following their missile strikes against alleged militants in each other's land. The development comes amidst officials of the...

United Nations: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has issued a call to Pakistan and Iran to sort out their security concerns through dialogue and avoid escalating the military strikes, according to his spokesperson Stephane Dujarric. “The Secretary-General underlines that all security concerns between the two countries...

Toronto: Even as Canada considers capping the arrival of international students amid growing housing crisis, 62,410 of them became permanent residents of the country in 2023, according to the country's immigration data. This number represented an increase of 9,670 from the 52,740 international graduates who...

Davao: A landslide set off by days of heavy rain buried a house where people were holding Christian prayers in the southern Philippines, killing at least seven people, including children, and seriously injuring two others, a disaster-response official said. Five to 10 people remained unaccounted...

Seoul: North Korea Friday said it has tested an underwater nuclear weapon system under development in response to the latest joint maritime exercise between South Korea, the US and Japan. According to Pyongyang's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), the North Korean Defence Ministry said...

Faridabad: ISRO plans to carry out the first tests of the proposed Bharatiya Space Station next year and talks are on with the industry to manufacture, test, and launch its first module by 2028, the space agency's chief S Somanath said Thursday. Interacting with reporters...