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Coast Guard rescues Sri Lankan with critical heart condition

Chennai: The Indian Coast Guard on Friday said it has rescued a Sri Lankan national with a critical heart condition onboard a drifting vessel, about 100 nautical miles from here and airlifted…
Pak PM orders fool-proof security arrangements for Chinese nationals

Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Friday directed all the security agencies to ensure fool-proof security arrangements for the Chinese nationals working on various projects in the country. He chaired a…

Thousands rally worldwide on Quds Day to support Palestine

Quds Day, observed on the last Friday of Ramzan, to show solidarity with the people of Palestine in their struggle for independence, was marked across the world with rallies in which thousands…
UN Security Council meeting briefly interrupted due to rare earthquake in NY

New York: A meeting of the UN Security Council was briefly interrupted as a rare 4.8 magnitude earthquake hit the New York area Friday morning. The UN diplomats were in the Security…
India removes export curbs on food items for Maldives

New Delhi: India on Friday removed export curbs on specified quantities of certain commodities such as eggs, potatoes, onions, rice, wheat flour, sugar, and dal for the Maldives during the current fiscal…
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…
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…

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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…