Kolkata, Sep 5 (IANS) A search operation was conducted at the Mumbai-bound Gitanjali Express near Howrah on Tuesday after a bomb threat but nothing suspicious was found and the train left for its destination after…
By Gaurav Sharma Xiamen (China), Sep 5 (IANS) India and China on Tuesday signalled they were ready to move on from their Doklam border row, with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi…
Kochi, Sep 5 (IANS) The Indian Coast Guard on Tuesday handed over offshore patrol vessel ICGS Varuna to the Sri Lankan Coast Guard, an official statement said. The patrol vessel was handed over to Rear…
Xiamen (China), Sep 5 (IANS) Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday opposed tougher sanctions against North Korea which were imposed following Pyongyang’s sixth nuclear test. “Resorting to just any sanctions in this situation is useless…
New Delhi, Sep 5 (IANS) The burning issue of the Rohingyas and India’s capacity building measures and infrastructure projects are expected to figure during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s three-day visit to Myanmar starting on Tuesday…
Nay Pyi Taw, Sep 5 (IANS) A Myanmar military fighter jet was reported missing while on a training mission in the Ayeyarwady region on Tuesday, defence authorities said. The G-4 fighter jet lost contact with…
Dhaka, Sep 5 (IANS) At least 123,000 Rohingyas have crossed the border into Bangladesh fleeing violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, a UN official said here on Tuesday. Joseph Surjamoni Tripura, the UNHCR spokesperson in Bangladesh,…
Hyderabad, Sep 5 (IANS) The mammoth Ganesh procession was underway in Hyderabad and other parts of Telangana amid tight security on Tuesday, marking the culmination of the 11-day festivities. Thousands of idols of different sizes…
Xiamen (China), Sep 5 (IANS) Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday discussed their border row, a week after the resolution of the two-month-long military stand-off at Doklam.
By Rohit Vaid New Delhi, Sep 5 (IANS) Aiming to allay employee fears in the face of a possible divestment of Air India (AI), Union Civil Aviation Minister Ashok Gajapathi Raju has said their interests…
Seoul, Sep 5 (IANS) The South Korean military on Tuesday carried out more live-fire drills in the Sea of Japan, as a response to North Korea’s latest nuclear test launched. The drills included the 2,500-tonne…
Cape Town, Sep 5 (IANS) The South African government refuted claims that foreign nationals in South Africa, and in particular Somalians, are being killed every second day in Cape Town. “The discourse of Somalian isolation…
Baghdad, Sep 5 (IANS) Iraqi security forces killed 55 Islamic State (IS) militant during a search campaign in the liberated areas in a town near the city of Tal Afar, the Iraqi military said. The…
Washington, Sep 5 (IANS) The White House said that US President Donald Trump talked with South Korean and German leaders over phone on the Korean Peninsula nuclear issue. The White House on Monday said Trump…
Damascus, Sep 5 (IANS) At least 14 civilians were killed over the past 24 hours by US-led airstrikes on Syria’s northern city of Raqqa, the key stronghold of the Islamic State (IS) group, media reports…
Moscow, Sep 5 (IANS) The Syrian government forces supported by Russian warplanes have scored new victories in an offensive against one of the last IS strongholds in the city of Deir al-Zour, the Russian Defence…
Bangkok, Sep 5 (IANS) Indonesia on Monday asked Mymnamar to protect its Rohingya Muslim minority even as protests continued in the archipelago nation over their persecution and a radical Sunni group engaged in sectarian violence…
New Delhi, Sep 4 (IANS) The Supreme Court will hear, on September 11, a plea seeking direction to the Central government not to deport about 40,000 Rohingya Muslim refugees back to Myanmar. Directing the hearing…
By Arul Louis United Nations, Sep 4 (IANS) The Security Council’s emergency meeting on Monday put off taking action against North Korea for its defiant hydrogen bomb test, unable to get China and Russia on…
Yangon, Sep 4 (IANS) A total of 418 schools in three townships in Myanmar’s northern Rakhine state have been closed as the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) terrorists continued their attacks, in which at least…