Archive Detail
| Title | Description | Posted Date |
|---|---|---|
| S.Korea, US hold joint special ops drill | Seoul, Feb 28 : South Korean and US special commandos are conducting "realistic" combined drills here, involving AC-130J and MC-130J warplanes, to strengthen the "ironclad" security commitment between the allies, a US official said on Tuesday. | 28-Feb-2023 |
| China urges US to stop trying to mislead | Beijing, Feb 28 : The Taiwan question is purely China's internal affair. It is time for the US to stop walking on the edge, stop using the salami tactics, stop pushing the envelope, and stop sowing confusion and trying to mislead the world on Taiwan, a spokesperson for the Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday. | 28-Feb-2023 |
| Japan's lower house approves record $836 | Tokyo, Feb 28 : Japan's lower house of Parliament on Tuesday approved a record 114.38 trillion yen ($836.90 billion) budget for fiscal year 2023, with record allocations made for social security costs while controversial defence spending has been factored in despite the country's grim fiscal health. | 28-Feb-2023 |
| Iranian armed forces launch large-scale | Tehran, Feb 28 : Iran's armed forces on Tuesday started a large-scale real-combat air defence maneuver in the country to show their preparedness of defending the country's sensitive targets, Iranian media reported. | 28-Feb-2023 |
| S.Korea, US hold joint special ops drill | Seoul, Feb 28 : South Korean and US special commandos are conducting "realistic" combined drills here, involving AC-130J and MC-130J warplanes, to strengthen the "ironclad" security commitment between the allies, a US official said on Tuesday. | 28-Feb-2023 |
| More than 100 people feared dead in Ital | Rome, Feb 27 : There are fears that more than 100 people, including children, have died after their boat sank in rough seas off southern Italy, a media report said. | 27-Feb-2023 |
| Death toll from Brazil landslides increa | Brasilia, Feb 27 : The death toll after last week's heavy rains that triggered deadly floods and landslides along the coast of Brazil's southeastern Sao Paulo state has increased to 65, local authorities said. | 27-Feb-2023 |
| Indians get lion's share of Pakistani ci | Islamabad, Feb 26 : The Pakistan Interior Ministry has granted Pakistani citizenship to 214 foreigners during the last five years over multiple reasons, including marriage, family relationships among others, media reports said on Sunday. | 26-Feb-2023 |
| Steady domestic lithium supply may impac | Chennai, Feb 26 : Some of the lithium-based joint ventures and technical collaborations in India will feel the impact when the metal gets mined in the country and made available to those who need it, said Anant Badjatya, CEO, SUN Mobility. | 25-Feb-2023 |
| Israelis hold mass demonstrations agains | Jerusalem, Feb 26 : Flag-waving Israelis have gathered in a massive protest for the eighth straight week to press their opposition to government legal reforms critics see as a threat to democracy. | 25-Feb-2023 |
| 6.1-magnitude quake jolts Japann's Hokka | Tokyo, Feb 26 : An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.1 struck off coast Kushiro of Hokkaido, the northern main island of Japan, the country's weather agency said here on Saturday. | 25-Feb-2023 |
| Kenya ramps up drought response efforts | Nairobi, Feb 25 : Kenyan authorities said that country was ramping up drought response interventions to mitigate the impacts of the deteriorating drought, which has left more than 6 million people food insecure. | 25-Feb-2023 |
| Death toll rises to 54 from landslides o | Brasilia, Feb 25 : The death toll from landslides caused by heavy rains on the coast of Brazil's Sao Paulo state has increased to 54, as rescuers continue to search for dozens of missing people under mountains of mud, officials confirmed. | 24-Feb-2023 |
| Cambodia confirms 2nd human case of bird | Phnom Penh, Feb 24 : Cambodia's Ministry of Health (MoH) said on Friday that it has detected the second human case of H5N1 avian influenza, or bird flu, after an 11-year-old girl died of the virus recently. | 24-Feb-2023 |
| US agency releases report on toxic Ohio | Washington, Feb 24 : The National Transportation Security Board (NTSB), a US federal agency, has released a preliminary report on the derailment of a train carrying hazardous chemicals in East Palestine, Ohio, earlier this month. | 24-Feb-2023 |
| Turkey launches salary support scheme, b | Ankara, Feb 23 : Turkey has launched a temporary salary support scheme and banned job cuts in southern provinces hit by the devastating February 6 earthquakes that killed over 42,000 people in the country as well as in Neighbouring Syria, an official gazette said. | 23-Feb-2023 |
| 29 US states under winter weather alerts | Los Angeles, Feb 23 : More than 65 million people across 29 US states are under winter weather alerts that include warnings of severe icing and extreme coldness. | 23-Feb-2023 |
| Iran imposes 'retaliatory' sanctions on | Tehran, Feb 22 : The Iranian Foreign Ministry imposed new "retaliatory" sanctions on several individuals and entities of the European Union (EU) and Britain for "supporting terrorism and inciting violence". | 22-Feb-2023 |
| Warnings of unprecedented grass fire ris | Canberra, Feb 22 : Australia is facing unprecedented grassfire risk in the summer of 2023/24, experts have warned. | 22-Feb-2023 |
| 17 suspected grave sites detected near e | Ottawa, Feb 22 : Ground-penetrating radar has detected 17 suspected grave sites around the property of the former Alberni Indian Residential School in British Columbia, Canada, local media reported. | 22-Feb-2023 |
| Indian-American Vivek Ramaswamy announce | Washington, Feb 22 : Vivek Ramaswamy, an Indian-American tech entrepreneur, announced that he's running for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination. | 22-Feb-2023 |
| Seattle becomes first US city to ban cas | New York, Feb 22 : Seattle has become the first US city to ban caste discrimination pushing back against opposition by several organisations representing Hindus. | 22-Feb-2023 |
| UN continues to deliver cross-border aid | United Nations, Feb 21 : The UN and its partners continue to scale up cross-border aid operations from Turkey into northwest Syria in the aftermath of massive earthquakes, said a UN spokesman. | 20-Feb-2023 |
| EAC ministers to review report on admiss | Dar Es Salaam, Feb 21 (TIWN) The 43rd ordinary meeting of the East African Community (EAC) Council of Ministers currently underway in Burundi will review a report of the verification mission on the admission of Somalia into the regional bloc. | 20-Feb-2023 |
| UN Mideast envoy voices concern over sur | United Nations, Feb 21 : UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Tor Wennesland has voiced concern over a surge of violence between Israelis and Palestinians. | 20-Feb-2023 |
| UN urges peaceful elections in Zimbabwe | Harare, Feb 21 : The UN has urged Zimbabwe's political parties and other stakeholders to ensure general elections to be held later this year are peaceful. | 20-Feb-2023 |
| Biden makes surprise visit to Kiev | Kiev, Feb 20 : US President Joe Biden on Monday made a surprise visit to Kiev where he met his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky just four days before the ongoing war marks its first anniversary. | 20-Feb-2023 |
| Indian High Commission inaugurates Bangl | Dhaka, Feb 20 : The Indian High Commission inaugurated the Bangladesh Youth Delegation (BYD) Corner in the Indian Cultural Centre in Gulshan as a part of the High Commission's outreach initiatives to engage with the youth of Bangladesh. | 19-Feb-2023 |
| Sudan's commander reaffirms commitment t | Khartoum, Feb 20 (TIWN) Commander of the Sudanese Rapid Support Forces (RSF), Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo has stressed his forces' commitment to merge into the Sudanese army as stipulated in the framework agreement signed by civilian and political leaders in December last year. | 19-Feb-2023 |
| Iran condemns Israeli missile attack on | Tehran, Feb 20 (TIWN) The Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani has condemned an Israeli missile attack earlier in the day on Syria's capital Damascus. | 19-Feb-2023 |
| Turkey to continue rescue operations in | Ankara, Feb 20 : Nearly two weeks after massive 7.8 earthquake that left over 44,000 people dead in Turkey and Syria, the Turkish disaster agency on Sunday said it is calling off rescue efforts in all areas except the provinces of Kahramanmaras - the epicentre - and Hatay, reports said. | 19-Feb-2023 |
| Moscow to respond to Dutch decision to r | MOSCOW, Feb. 19 -- Russia will respond to the Netherlands' decision to limit the number of Russian diplomats in the country, TASS news agency reported citing the Russian Foreign Ministry on Saturday. | 19-Feb-2023 |
| Six killed in ambush in Philippines | Manila, Feb 19 : Six people, including a local official, were killed when unidentified gunmen opened fire at a van in Nueva Vizcaya province in the Philippines on Sunday morning, police said. | 19-Feb-2023 |
| Geopolitical power shifts divide the wor | New Delhi, Feb 19 (IANS) The geopolitical distribution of power will see a fundamental shift as a result of the war in Ukraine, GIS Reports said. Traditional political alignments will harden. | 19-Feb-2023 |
| Govt yet to come up with satisfactory an | New Delhi, Feb 19 : Months after a massive cyber attack at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Delhi, the government is yet to come up with a satisfactory answer as to what happened to the patient data that was encrypted and may have been exfiltrated by the hackers. | 19-Feb-2023 |
| Syrian Army says 5 killed in Damascus by | Damascus, Feb 19 : Five people, including a soldier, were killed and 15 others wounded early Sunday by an Israeli missile attack on the Syrian capital Damascus, the Syrian army said in a statement. | 19-Feb-2023 |
| Ex-cops plead not guilty over African-Am | Washington, Feb 18 : Five former police officers in Memphis, who have been charged with murder over the death of African-American man Tyre Nichols, have pleaded not guilty in their first court appearance. | 18-Feb-2023 |
| Zelensky discusses defence aid with Dutc | Kiev, Feb 18 : Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and visiting Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte discussed defence aid for Kiev and new sanctions on Russia. | 18-Feb-2023 |
| Left out of will, Sikh widow wins half o | London, Feb 17 : An 83-year-old Sikh woman, whose late husband of 66 years left her out of his will, has won a high court battle in London for a share of an estate worth more than 1 million pounds. | 17-Feb-2023 |
| Mentioning marital status not mandatory | Dhaka, Feb 16 : The Bangladesh High Court on Thursday ruled that mentioning marital status is not mandatory for getting enrolled in educational institutions. | 16-Feb-2023 |
| India delivers relief material to quake- | Damascus, Feb 15 : An Indian Army team deployed in United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) on Wednesday delivered relief material to quake-rattled Aleppo in Syria. | 15-Feb-2023 |
| PLO welcomes calls to halt Israeli settl | Ramallah, Feb 15 : The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) on Tuesday welcomed international calls on the Israeli government to stop the expansion of settlements in West Bank. | 15-Feb-2023 |
| EU formally bans gas and diesel car sale | London, Feb 15 : In a move to boost the transition to electric vehicles (EVs), the European Parliament has approved the law to ban the sale of new gas and diesel cars in the EU, starting in 2035. | 15-Feb-2023 |
| UK distributor picks up award-winning do | London, Feb 14 : MetFilm Distribution has acquired the U.K. and Ireland rights to Vinay Shukla's multi-award-winning documentary 'While We Watched', reports 'Variety'. | 14-Feb-2023 |
| 4,300 deaths reported in NW Syria follow | Damascus, Feb 14 : A total of 4,300 deaths and 7,600 injuries have been reported in northwestern Syria as a result of the massive earthquake that hit the country a week ago, a UN relief agency said on Monday. | 14-Feb-2023 |
| Israeli fighter jets strike Gaza militar | Gaza, Feb 14 : Israeli fighter jets bombed a military post in the Gaza Strip early on Monday in response to a rocket launch from the Palestinian enclave on Saturday. | 14-Feb-2023 |
| US-China rivalry will not split the worl | Toronto, Feb 14 (TIWN) The rivalry between the U.S. and China, recently highlighted during the Chinese spy balloon crisis, is not going to escalate and split the world into two hostile camps and the era of globalisation isn't over yet, a study said on Monday. | 14-Feb-2023 |
| 6.1-magnitude quake hits New Zealand | Hong Kong, Feb 14 : An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.1 jolted Kermadec Islands in New Zealand at 09:18:07 GMT on Monday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. | 14-Feb-2023 |
| Cyclone Gabrielle: New Zealand declares | Wellington, Feb 13 : New Zealand declared a state of emergency on Monday as Cyclone Gabrielle started to lash the North Island. | 13-Feb-2023 |
| Turkey-Syria earthquake death toll surpa | Ankara/Damascus, Feb 12 : The combined death toll in the devastating earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria on February 6 has surpassed 28,000. | 12-Feb-2023 |