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Baleshwar: The flood situation in Odisha remained grim Wednesday as the Subarnarekha River, which is in spate, inundated 100 more villages in Baleshwar district, officials said. The fresh inundation was caused by low-pressure-induced heavy rainfall in the upper catchment areas in neighbouring Jharkhand, prompting the...

Dubai: United States military struck targets in Iran Tuesday as hostilities flared after a month without military action. Iran fired missiles and drones in response, Iranian semiofficial media said. The Fars and Tasnim news agencies, seen as close to Iran's security forces, reported late Tuesday...

Kyiv/New York: An Indian national has been killed in a wave of intensified Russian attacks on Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky announced Tuesday. He said on X that the Indian was among 12 killed in drone and missile strikes on several targets across Ukraine in five...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Tuesday quashed FIRs registered against student protesters in Delhi, Bihar, Maharashtra, West Bengal, and Assam in connection with protests held between July 20 and 25, and directed that similar cases registered across the country will not be pursued or investigated....

Bishkek: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Tuesday called for dismantling the entire ecosystem of terrorism -- financing, recruitment, radicalisation and safe havens. Addressing the 26th Meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) in Kyrgyzstan's Bishkek Tuesday, PM Modi said,...

Bishkek: Calling for an immediate end to the Russia-Ukraine conflict, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Monday urged Russian President Vladimir Putin to move from "endless war towards end of war", asserting that a peaceful resolution of the conflict is humanity's shared priority. In a meeting with...

Bishkek: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Monday held talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, focusing on various key aspects of bilateral ties including cooperation in areas of trade and investment, energy and defence. The meeting took place on the margins of the annual summit of the...

Bishkek: Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a meeting with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit in Kyrgyzstan's Bishkek Monday. Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi and other top Iranian officials were also present during the meeting. During...

Kathmandu: The death toll from devastating floods in Nepal has crossed the 900 mark, as bodies recovered from riverbanks continue to pile up in several districts. The number of bodies recovered has risen to 903, with the highest number of corpses,272, recovered in southern Chitwan...

Kathmandu: The death toll from flash floods in Nepal rose to 788 Sunday, with more bodies being recovered, even as more than 2,500 people are still missing. Bodies were recovered from eight affected districts as rescuers raced against time to search for those missing and...