Archive Detail
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North Korea warns against US-South Korea | Seoul, Mar 18 : The strategic forces of North Korea (the Democratic People's Republic of Korea) has conducted an intercontinental ballistic missile launch drill as a gesture of warning against the ongoing US-South Korea war drills, said a state media report on Friday. | 18-Mar-2023 |
Mortar mine blast kills 2 children in Af | Pul-i-Alam (Afghanistan), March 18 : Two children were killed and two others injured as a mortar mine left over from past wars went off in Afghanistan’s eastern Logar province, the state-run Bakhtar news agency reported on Saturday. | 18-Mar-2023 |
Peruvian prez calls for concerted effort | Lima, March 18 : Peruvian President Dina Boluarte called on all sectors of the society to pool efforts to rebuild the country affected by heavy rains and floods for weeks following cyclone Yaku. | 18-Mar-2023 |
Budget showdown: Biden exposes Republica | Washington, Mar 17 : US President Joe Biden is going all out to turn the tables on Republicans who are trying to paint Democrats as being soft on crime in the hope of winning the crucial spending fight this year on the budget showdown, ahead of the election year in 2024. | 17-Mar-2023 |
Death toll in Colombia coal mine blast r | Bogota, March 17 : The death toll from a coal mine blast earlier this week in Colombia's Cundinamarca has increased to 21 after the bodies of 10 trapped miners were found, President Gustavo Petro announced. | 17-Mar-2023 |
Garcetti confirmed as US Ambassador to I | Washington, March 17 : Eric Garcetti was confirmed as the next US Ambassador to India on Wednesday, ending a logjam that had left an important American mission abroad without a regular envoy for almost two years and his fate in the balance. | 17-Mar-2023 |
4,986 Afghan refugees return from Iran | Kabul, March 17 : A total of 4,986 Afghan refugees have returned to their homeland from neighbouring Iran over the past two days, the Ministry for Refugees and Repatriation Affairs in Kabul said on Thursday. | 17-Mar-2023 |
Food prices in Sweden record highest sur | Stockholm, March 17 : Food prices in Sweden surged over 20 per cent for the past 12 months, registering the highest increase in over seven decades, according to official data. | 17-Mar-2023 |
K.R. Parvathy appointed top UN official | United Nations, Mar 16 : UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has appointed Kavilmadam Ramaswami Parvathy, who led the World Food Programme's (WFP) relief operations in Turkey after last month's devastating earthquakes, as the world body's top official in Tajikistan. | 16-Mar-2023 |
Israel's Netanyahu rejects president's m | Jerusalem, March 16 : Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected a mediating proposal suggested by President Issac Herzog, saying his government will continue to push through the controversial and divisive judicial reform. | 15-Mar-2023 |
Indian Consulate in Brisbane briefly shu | MELBOURNE, March 15 : The Indian Consulate in Brisbane was forced to close down temporarily today after Khalistani supporters blocked the entry raising slogans against the Hindus, days after Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese's assurance to curb anti-India elements in the country, a media report said. | 15-Mar-2023 |
360,000 residences, businesses without p | San Francisco, March 15 : More than 360,000 residences and businesses were without electricity in California as another atmospheric river is lashing the storm-ravaged the US state, inundating cities already flooded by the recent rain and forcing residents to flee. | 15-Mar-2023 |
Russia's unemployment rate drops to reco | Moscow, March 15 : Russia's unemployment rate has dropped to a historic low of 3.6 per cent, President Vladimir Putin said. | 15-Mar-2023 |
S.Korea to end mask mandate for public t | Seoul, March 15 : South Korea will end the mask mandate for public transportation next week, lifting one of the last-remaining Covid-19 restrictions amid a stable pandemic situation, the government announced on Wednesday. | 15-Mar-2023 |
World Bank pledges $500mn to support Leb | Beirut, March 15 : The World Bank announced that it will allocate about $300 million this year to provide social protection to Lebanon's vulnerable population and invest $200 million in the country's agriculture sector. | 15-Mar-2023 |
Ukraine expects agricultural exports at | Kiev, March 14 : Ukraine's agricultural export is expected to remain at over $20 billion this year amid Russia's ongoing war against Kiev, a government official said. | 14-Mar-2023 |
Pakistan, Iran to increase electricity e | Tehran, March 14 : Pakistan and Iran have signed a contract to increase their electricity exchange. | 14-Mar-2023 |
Russia agrees to extend Black Sea Grain | Geneva, March 14 : Russia has agreed to extend a Ukraine grain export deal by 60 days after talks with UN representatives in Geneva. | 14-Mar-2023 |
New Zealand FM stresses close relationsh | Wellington, March 14 : New Zealand Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta will visit Fiji and hold bilateral meetings with her counterpart this week, reaffirming the countries' close links. | 14-Mar-2023 |
Philippines' total external trade declin | Manila, March 14 : The Philippines' total external trade in goods fell by 2.4 per cent in January to $16.20 billion, authorities said on Tuesday. | 14-Mar-2023 |
Saudi crown prince launches kingdom's la | Riyadh, March 13 : Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud has announced the launch of a new national airline, Riyadh Air, the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported. | 13-Mar-2023 |
China appoints US-sanctioned general as | Hong Kong, March 13 : China on Sunday appointed a US-sanctioned general as its new defence minister, the media reported. | 13-Mar-2023 |
India-born Rajesh Agrawal to lead London | NEW DELHI, March 13 : London Deputy Mayor for Business Rajesh Agrawal will lead a delegation to India starting March 13, in a first in-person trade mission run by the Mayor's International Business Programme to the country since 2019, to promote stronger trade and investment links. | 13-Mar-2023 |
Tunisia welcomes Saudi-Iran decision to | Tunis, March 13 : Tunisia welcomed the decision by Saudi Arabia and Iran to resume diplomatic ties, the Tunisian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. | 13-Mar-2023 |
5 rescued after boat sinks in Aegean Sea | Athens, March 13 : Five people were rescued from a remote part of Farmakonisi island after a boat carrying refugees and migrants sank in the Aegean Sea, the Hellenic Coast Guard said. | 13-Mar-2023 |
End of a bromance: Why Pak Army's top br | Islamabad, March 11 : Imran Khans political career has prospered by the extended support of the military establishment, from the famous 2014 long march and protest sit-in in Islamabad for over 120 days, to him becoming the Prime Minister of Pakistan in 2018. | 11-Mar-2023 |
US reports 125 paediatric flu deaths thi | Washington, Mar 11 : A total of 125 paediatric flu deaths have been reported in the US so far this season, according to the latest data published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). | 11-Mar-2023 |
Tropical cyclone Freddy aims for second | United Nations, March 11 : The UN and its humanitarian partners are bracing for a second landfall of the long-running tropical cyclone Freddy on Mozambique, a top official said. | 11-Mar-2023 |
New storm hits California with heavy rai | San Francisco, March 11 : A new storm is currently lashing much of western California , bringing significant rainfall amid flood warnings. | 11-Mar-2023 |
From jumping into neighbour's house to e | New Delhi, March 11 : The signs of an embattled Imran Khan are evident from the fact that he "jumped into his neighbour's house in Lahore to evade arrest". | 11-Mar-2023 |
3 wounded in shooting attack in Tel Aviv | Tel Aviv, March 10 : A gun-wielding Palestinian man opened fire on a busy street in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv, injuring three individuals in what was described by Israeli officials as a "terror attack". | 10-Mar-2023 |
Japan's household spending declines for | Tokyo, March 10 : Spending by households in Japan fell in January from a year earlier, marking the third successive month of decline, the government said in a report on Friday. | 10-Mar-2023 |
Cyclone Yaku aggravates extreme rain con | Lima, March 10 : Cyclone Yaku is causing heavy rain in several coastal regions of northern Peru, an official from the country's National Meteorology and Hydrology Service (Senamhi) said. | 10-Mar-2023 |
Italy targets human traffickers with tou | Rome, March 10 : Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni announced new measures against human traffickers, after holding a cabinet meeting in the seaside town of Cutro, the site of the February 26 shipwreck that claimed at least 72 lives. | 10-Mar-2023 |
Mexican President slams US lawmaker's in | Mexico City, March 10 : Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has slammed a US lawmaker for offering to send American troops into Mexico to combat the drug trade. | 10-Mar-2023 |
4 killed, 6 injured in a shooting incide | Islamabad, March 9 : Four people were killed and six others injured in a shooting outside a school in Pakistan's northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Thursday. | 09-Mar-2023 |
Australia reports 100-fold increase in i | Canberra, March 9 : Australia has reported a 100-fold increase in influenza cases through the first two months of the year, according to the Department of Health. | 09-Mar-2023 |
Vietnam expects full tourism recovery by | Hanoi, March 9 : Vietnam's tourism sector is projected to return to pre-Covid pandemic levels in 2025, authorities said on Thursday. | 09-Mar-2023 |
US Senate Republican leader Mitch McConn | Washington, March 9 : US Senate Minority leader Mitch McConnell has been hospitalised after he tripped at a Washington D.C., hotel during a private dinner, a spokesperson for the Kentucky Republican confirmed. | 09-Mar-2023 |
Turkish women defy ban, stage 'Feminist | Istanbul, March 9 : Turkish women have defied a ban on protests and staged an annual march called "Feminist Night March" in Istanbul's Taksim Square to mark International Women's Day. | 08-Mar-2023 |
6 Palestinians killed in Israeli raid ta | Jerusalem, March 8 : At least six Palestinians were killed in the West Bank in an Israeli raid aimed at arresting a suspect involved in the killing of two Israeli brothers the previous week, Palestinian and Israeli officials said. | 08-Mar-2023 |
16 killed, over 100 injured in blast in | Dhaka, March 8 (TIWN) At least 16 people were killed and more than 100 others injured in a massive explosion at a building in Siddique Bazar, a crowded marketplace in Old Dhaka, at 4:50 p.m. (local time) on Tuesday, the fire service control room told IANS. | 08-Mar-2023 |
UN chief calls for actions to close gend | United Nations, March 8 : UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for actions to close gender gaps in science, technology and innovation, saying women's full contributions will benefit all. | 08-Mar-2023 |
FBI hunts woman who didn't show up to co | Washington, March 8 : The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has launched a search for a women who did not show up to a court in Washington, D.C. when she was set to go to trial on federal charges related to the January 6, 2021, US Capitol riot. | 08-Mar-2023 |
4 US citizens kidnapped in Mexico in cas | Mexico City, March 8 : Four US citizens who had travelled to the Mexican border city of Matamoros for medical procedures, were assaulted and kidnapped in a case of mistaken identity, an informed official said. | 08-Mar-2023 |
Indian-American pleads guilty in $20 mn | New York, March 8 : A 38-year-old Indian-American has pleaded guilty to charges related to almost $20 million in fraud that he perpetrated while on federal pretrial release for another crime. | 08-Mar-2023 |
Attacks on Ahmadiyyas abominable, says B | Dhaka, March 6 : The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) of Bangladesh has termed last week's attack on the Ahmadiyya community in Panchagarh district as "abominable" and demanded punishment to the attackers. | 06-Mar-2023 |
Indian-American named first justice of A | New York, March 6 : Indian-American judge Tejal Mehta took oath as the first justice of Ayer District Court in the US state of Massachusetts. | 06-Mar-2023 |
Pakistan bans broadcast of Imran Khan's | Islamabad, March 6 : Pakistan’s electronic media watchdog on Sunday banned satellite television channels from broadcasting live and recorded speeches of ousted prime minister Imran Khan with immediate effect, hours after he dodged arrest and made “provocative statements against state institutions.” | 06-Mar-2023 |
Yoon's approval rating over 40% for thir | Seoul, March 6 : South President Yoon Suk Yeol's approval rating has stayed over 40 per cent for a third straight week on the back of strengthened efforts to handle economic and livelihood matters, a new poll revealed on Monday. | 06-Mar-2023 |