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Antananarivo: India’s Ambassador to Madagascar and Comoros, Abhay Kumar, called on the Prime Minister of Madagascar Christian Ntsay and announced the donation of 5,000 tonnes of rice to the island nation as humanitarian aid. The rice shipment from India to Madagascar is likely to reach the Malagasy port of Tomasina in July 2022. Abhay Kumar […]

Kiev: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has signed a decree imposing personal sanctions on his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, and a number of other high-ranking officials in Moscow. The decree signed on Thursday came in approval of a decision taken by the National Security and Defence Council of […]

Washington: Three people died and another was critically injured after a shooting broke out in Smithsburg, US state of Maryland, police said. The incident took place on Thursday afternoon, Xinhua news agency reported. Officers responded to the Columbia Machine Inc. at around 2:30 p.m, where they found the four victims, the Washington County Sheriff’s Office wrote […]

Hyderabad: Planning a trip overseas can often be a tiring task. From picking a destination to long waiting times stretching into weeks, there are a whole host of things that need to be taken care of. However, luckily, many countries let you in without a visa. Here are the countries Indian passport-holders can travel to […]

Karachi: A Hindu temple in Karachi has been vandalised, causing fear and panic among members of the community living in the Pakistani city, a media report said on Thursday. According to The Express Tribune report, the incident took place on Wednesday at the Shri Mari Maata temple in the city’s Korangi area. After receiving information […]

Islamabad: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has asked the Pakistan government to renegotiate the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) energy deals before making payments of around 300 billion PKR to the Chinese power plants, putting Islamabad in a tight spot. The global lender has asked the government to treat the Chinese CPEC power plants at par […]

Panaji: The Goa Police are investigating the death of a Ukrainian national, Dmytro Gurov, 49, whose body was found in his rented villa at Benaulim in South Goa. The body was found late on Wednesday, police said. Dmytro Gurov came to Goa in December 2021. Since then he had been staying in a rented villa near […]

Washington: Global cases of the monkeypox virus have surpassed 1,000, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said and urged people to take extra precautions. As of June 6, 1,019 confirmed and suspected cases of monkeypox have been reported in 29 countries, according to the CDC. The UK has recorded the most cases, 302 suspected […]

United Nations: The world is facing a cost-of-living crisis unseen in at least a generation, partly due to the Ukraine conflict, said a UN report. “The largest cost-of-living crisis of the 21st century has come when people and countries have a limited capacity to cope,” said the second report of the Global Crisis Response Group […]

Kiev: Since Moscow launched its ongoing invasion of Kiev on February 24, the Ukrainian Air Force has carried out more than 1,100 strikes against Russian targets. In a statement on Wednesday, the Air Force Command said: “As of today, more than 1,100 group air strikes on columns of equipment, positions, manpower and logistics centres belonging […]

Islamabad: Amid the ongoing electricity shortage and worsening power cuts, the Pakistan government has imposed a ban on wedding functions after 10 pm, to be effective from Wednesday. The Restriction has been implemented on the orders of Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, Geo TV reported citing sources. It further stated that the orders have been […]

Tehran: At least 10 people were killed and dozens injured after a passenger train derailed and rammed into an excavator in Tabas, eastern Iran on Wednesday, media reports said. The incident occurred at 5:30 a.m local time, Islamic Republic News Agency said. Around 350 passengers were on board the train and the derailment occurred some […]

Toronto: Indians will benefit the most from changes introduced by Canada to its super visa programme for parents and grandparents. Under the changes announced by Immigration Minister Sean Fraser on Tuesday, parents and grandparents coming to Canada can now stay here for up to five years per entry. The changes will kick in from July […]

Brussels: Chargers will be harmonized for small and medium-sized portable electronic devices by 2024 in the European Union (EU), negotiators of the European Parliament and the Council have agreed. “By autumn 2024, USB Type-C will become the common charging port for all mobile phones, tablets and cameras in the EU,” a press release from the Parliament […]

Moscow: Following a freeze on activities in Russia earlier this year, IBM CEO Arvind Krishna has informed employees that the company is ending all operations in the country and has begun laying off employees. In a letter shared with the employees, Krishna stated that the company’s focus for months has been on looking after the […]

Johannesburg/Dubai: Indian-origin fugitive businessmen Rajesh and Atul Gupta, who were among South Africa’s most wanted suspects in a corruption case that led to the removal of president Jacob Zuma from office, have been arrested by the Dubai Police, according to an official statement on Tuesday. The Interpol had issued red notices against Rajesh, 51, and […]

Kabul: The Taliban-led government in Afghanistan announced that the World Health Organization (WHO) will provide monkeypox test kits to the the war-torn nation as the virus has been confirmed in 27 countries with nearly 800 cases. According to officials from the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH), the Afghan health sector currently lacks kits to test […]

Islamabad: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader and former prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi on Monday held Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chief Imran Khan accountable for breaching the International Monetary Fund (IMF) deal as he called his faulty decisions ‘suicide bombings’ on Pakistan. “PTI carried out suicide bombings throughout the country. The decisions they made in the last […]

London: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has won a no-confidence vote among Conservative lawmakers. He will now stay in his job as Prime Minister. Johnson won the support of 211 out of 359 lawmakers, dozens more than the threshold of 180 votes, according to the result announced by Graham Brady, chairman of the Conservative Party’s […]

Colombo: A 45-year-old Indian businessman has been arrested from a Sri Lankan international airport for attempting to smuggle foreign currency worth over Rs 40 million out of the country. The man, who has not been identified, was arrested on Sunday by the security officials at the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA), Daily Mirror Lanka reported on […]

London: UK’s embattled Prime Minister Boris Johnson will face a vote of confidence in his leadership of the Conservative Party on Monday, the chair of the party’s backbench committee announced, days after more details of the partygate scandal at Downing Street emerged. Sir Graham Brady, who is in-charge of collating the letters of no-confidence received […]

Lagos: Several were killed while dozens of others were wounded after gunmen entered a Catholic church in Owo, Nigeria’s Ondo State and opened fire on worshippers, police said. No group claimed responsibility for the attack at St. Francis Catholic Church on Sunday. Reports suggest the attackers also set off explosives during the attack in Ondo. […]

New Delhi: India on Monday slammed the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) for making comments on the internal affairs of the country, terming them ‘unwarranted and narrow-minded’. Our response to media queries regarding recent statement by General Secretariat of the OIC:https://t.co/961dqr76qf pic.twitter.com/qrbKgtoWnC — Arindam Bagchi (@MEAIndia) June 6, 2022 The Ministry of External Affairs Spokesperson […]

Dubai: Saudi Arabia on Monday joined Qatar, Iran and Kuwait to express its condemnation of the controversial remarks of a BJP leader against Prophet Mohammed and called for “respect for beliefs and religions.” In a statement, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed its condemnation and denunciation of the statements made by the BJP spokesperson, saying […]