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Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif to visit Saudi Arabia visit from Saturday
Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif will embark on his maiden three-day visit to Saudi Arabia from Saturday to meet the Saudi leadership and discuss issues of mutual interest, it was announced…
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X users begin to lose followers as Musk cracks down on bots, trolls
New Delhi: X users on Friday started losing followers as Elon Musk-run social media platform kicked off the exercise to remove bots. The action came as spam and porn bots swarmed the…
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US man executed for killing Indian, another person in Oklahoma
Houston: A 41-year-old man convicted of shooting and killing two people, including an Indian, in the US state of Oklahoma in 2002 was executed on Thursday. Michael Dewayne Smith was executed by…
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US support of Gaza war hinges on Israel’s steps to protect civilians: Biden to Netanyahu
Washington: US President Joe Biden on Thursday told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that America’s support of Israel’s war in Gaza would be determined by the latter announcing and implementing a “series…
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27 killed in simultaneous attacks on 5 Iranian military bases
At least 11 Iranian security force members and 16 assailants have been killed in simultaneous attacks on Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) headquarters in the southeastern border province of Sistan-Baluchestan, Iranian state…
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Have not asked India to reduce its imports of Russian crude oil: US
New Delhi: The US on Thursday said it has not asked India to reduce its imports of Russian crude oil and that the G7 price cap was designed to force Moscow to…
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Indian student group begins ‘Fair Visa, Fair Chance’ campaign in UK
London: One of the UK’s prominent Indian student representative organisations on Thursday began a new “Fair Visa, Fair Chance” campaign in favour of the post-study Graduate Route visa, which has proved hugely…
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Amid decline in Indian tourists, Maldives min calls India ‘friend’
Male: The Maldives still considers India a friend, the tourism-dependent country’s economic minister has said while defending President Mohamed Muizzu’s stand against the presence of “foreign soldiers” in the archipelago nation in…
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Nearly 1 million Bangladeshis may slip into poverty: World Bank
Dhaka: Nearly 1 million Bangladeshi people are projected to join the ranks of the moderately poor, who earn less than $3.65 a day in purchasing power parity (PPP), said the World Bank…
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Earthquake of magnitude 6.1 strikes Japan
Tokyo: An earthquake of 6.1 magnitude struck Japan’s northern coast of Honshu on Thursday morning, the National Centre of Seismology said. The depth of the earthquake was 55 km which struck Japan…
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WhatsApp, Instagram services restored following global outage
New Delhi: WhatsApp and Instagram, both owned by Meta, have been restored after experiencing a worldwide outage. WhatsApp and Instagram experienced a widespread outage on Wednesday around 11:45 pm, affecting numerous users…
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US election: Trump leads Biden in 6 of 7 battleground states, says poll opinion
Washington: Ahead of the upcoming US election scheduled for November, President Joe Biden is trailing behind his main opponent Donald Trump in six of the seven battleground states, according to a latest…
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Instagram, WhatsApp down globally, users rush to X
WhatsApp and Instagram, two of the most popular social media platforms owned by Meta, experienced a major outage on Wednesday night, leaving millions of users worldwide unable to access their accounts. The…
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Imran Khan allocated 7 cells in jail: Punjab govt tells court
Lahore: Pakistan’s Punjab government on Wednesday told the Lahore High Court that seven cells instead of one have been allocated for convicted former prime minister Imran Khan in the Adiala jail for…
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Pak committed to defeating terrorism with full force of national power: Prez
Islamabad: Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari on Wednesday said that his country was committed to defeating terrorism with full force of national power. Zardari made the remarks while talking to Army chief…
