Archive Detail
Title | Description | Posted Date |
---|---|---|
Indian food firm in Singapore charged af | Singapore, Dec 28 : An Indian food supplier firm was charged in Singapore on Wednesday after live cockroaches were allegedly found among chutney packets and at the chapati-making area in the premises. | 27-Dec-2023 |
Israel's comptroller to probe failure to | Washington, Dec 28 : The Israeli state comptroller will probe the 'multi-system failures' in the government’s security system which failed to detect the October 7 Hamas attack that killed 1,200 Israelis and took 240 as hostages. | 27-Dec-2023 |
Trump relieved as Michigan Supreme Court | Washington, Dec 28 : Former US President Donald Trump got the much needed relief on Wednesday from the Colorado court shock when the Michigan Supreme Court rejected an attempt to remove him from the 2024 primary ballot based on the US Constitution's "insurrectionist ban". | 27-Dec-2023 |
20 killed in IDF attack near hospital in | Tel Aviv, Dec 28 : The Ministry of Health in Gaza said on Wednesday that 20 people have been killed in an Israel army attack near a hospital at Khan Younis in Southern Gaza. | 27-Dec-2023 |
S.Korea in talks with Poland on arms dea | Seoul, Dec 26 : South Korea is in talks with Poland to ensure the multiple arms contracts signed between Korean companies and the Polish government will be carried out as agreed despite the change of the leadership in Warsaw, a Seoul official said on Tuesday. | 26-Dec-2023 |
S.Korea Prez Yoon calls for approaching | Seoul, Dec 26 : South Korea President Yoon Suk Yeol called on Tuesday for approaching the issue of the country's surprisingly declining birthrate from a fundamentally different perspective, emphasising the need to identify its causes and find effective solutions. | 26-Dec-2023 |
1 dead, over 120,000 homes without power | Sydney, Dec 26 : One woman was killed, and more than 120,000 homes were left without power in Australia's Queensland as severe thunderstorms pounded the southeastern part of the state on Christmas night, local media reported on Tuesday. | 26-Dec-2023 |
Earthquake death toll in China rises to | Beijing, Dec 25 : The death toll from the 6.2-magnitude earthquake that jolted northwest China on Dec. 18 has risen to 32 in Qinghai Province, while two people are still missing, according to the Qinghai emergency management department on Monday. | 25-Dec-2023 |
23 flights cancelled at Sydney Airport o | Tel Aviv, Dec 25 : The Hamas militant group has claimed that they have arrested some Palestinians who were working for Israeli intelligence agency, Shin Bet in the Gaza Strip and were providing inputs on the whereabouts of top Hamas leaders. | 24-Dec-2023 |
Europe celebrates Christmas amid lingeri | Brussels, Dec 25 : Amid the festive ambience of European cities adorned with lights and decorations, this Christmas season is underscored by heightened security measures. | 24-Dec-2023 |
Palestinian Islamic Jihad delegation arr | Tel Aviv, Dec 25 : A high-level delegation of Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) led by its exiled leader Ziyad Al-Nakhalah has reached the Egyptian capital Cairo, indicating that the truce talks are continuing. | 24-Dec-2023 |
PM Modi interacts with delegation of stu | New Delhi, Dec 25 : Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi interacted with a delegation of students of Jammu & Kashmir at his residence at 7, Lok Kalyan Marg earlier today. About 250 students hailing from all districts of Jammu & Kashmir participated in the freewheeling and informal interaction. | 24-Dec-2023 |
Who will be Trump's Vice President if he | Washington, Dec 24 : The Colorado Supreme Court has removed former US President Donald Trump from the state's 2024 ballot, ruling that he isn't an eligible presidential candidate because of the 14th Amendment's "insurrectionist ban," CNN reported. The ruling was 4-3. As per CNN, the ruling will be placed on hold until January 4, pending Trump's appeal to the US Supreme Court, which could settle the matter for the nation. | 23-Dec-2023 |
1 killed in shooting at Florida shopping | Washington, Dec 24 : A man died and a woman was injured after a shooting inside a central Florida shopping mall on Saturday, according to local police. | 23-Dec-2023 |
Hamas says lost contact with group holdi | Gaza, Dec 24 : Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, has said that it has lost contact with a group holding five Israeli hostages in the Gaza Strip, fearing some of the hostages may have been killed in an Israeli airstrike. | 23-Dec-2023 |
China earthquake toll rises to 131, near | Beijing, Dec 20 : The death toll from a powerful earthquake measuring 6.2 on the Richter scale that jolted China's Gansu and Qinghai provinces increased to 131 on Wednesday, while the number of injured persons stood at 980, authorities said. | 20-Dec-2023 |
No one knows when will Russia-Ukraine wa | Kyiv, Dec 20 : President Volodymyr Zelensky said Tuesday that there was no end in sight to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, as fatigue builds among Kyiv's allies nearly two years into the war and the Kremlin voices growing confidence of victory. | 20-Dec-2023 |
Telecommunications partially restored in | Gaza, Dec 20 : The UN humanitarians said that telecommunications, including internet services, were partially restored in southern Gaza, ending the most extended shutdown since the onset of Israel-Hamas war on October 7."These recurrent interruptions and the lack of electricity hinder access to vital information and severely affect humanitarian relief efforts," the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said in an update. | 20-Dec-2023 |
German court orders repeat of 2021 elect | BERLIN, Dec 20 : Germany's highest court on Tuesday ordered the 2021 national election to be partially repeated in Berlin because of severe glitches at many polling stations in the capital. | 20-Dec-2023 |
Top IS official detained in Turkey | Ankara, Dec 20 : Turkish intelligence detained the administrative and financial head of the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group operating in Syria, state media reported. | 20-Dec-2023 |
Floods displace over 6,500 people in Mal | Kuala Lumpur, Dec 17 : Floods displaced more than 6,500 people in four states in Malaysia following heavy rains on Sunday. | 17-Dec-2023 |
Russia downs multiple Ukrainian drones | Moscow, Dec 17 : The Russian air defence downed 33 Ukrainian drones over several Russian regions, the Russian Defence Ministry said on Sunday. | 17-Dec-2023 |
Spirit of 1971 must be preserved, promot | Dhaka, Dec 17 : External Affairs Minister (EAM) S. Jaishankar has extended his warm greetings to his Bangladeshi counterpart A.K. Abdul Momen as the latter celebrated the 52nd anniversary of Bangladesh 'Victory Day'. | 17-Dec-2023 |
Punjabi truck driver, who killed 16, set | Toronto, Dec 15 : Indo-Canadian truck driver Jaskirat Singh Sidhu, who is serving an eight-year jail sentence for killing 16 young hockey players in a 2018 crash in Saskatchewan, is now another step closer to being deported to India. | 15-Dec-2023 |
US reaches H-1B visa cap for FY24 | Washington, Dec 15 : The US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) said it has received a sufficient number of petitions to reach the congressionally-mandated cap for the most-coveted H-1B visa for the fiscal year 2024. | 15-Dec-2023 |
Train derailment in Bangladesh leaves 1 | Dhaka, Dec 13 : One person was killed after seven compartments of a train derailed on an overpass in Gazipur near the outskirts of Bangladesh's capital Dhaka on Wednesday. | 13-Dec-2023 |
BNP calls 36-hour blockade from Dec 12 t | Dhaka, Dec 10 : The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has called for 11th round of blockade from December 12 to press for its demands, including elections under a non-party interim government, local media reported. | 10-Dec-2023 |
Pakistan stock market soars to all-time | Karachi, Dec 10 : Shillong, December 10: The Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) wrapped up the trading week on a historic note as the benchmark KSE-100 index soared to an unprecedented all-time high above 66,000 points, a media outlet reported. | 10-Dec-2023 |
Shooting spree in 2 Texas cities leave 6 | HUSTON, Dec 7 : Six people were found dead and three injured, including two police officers, after a string of homicides and shootings unfolded across two Texas cities -- Austin and San Antonio -- on Tuesday | 06-Dec-2023 |
Australia's central bank keeps cash rate | Canberra, Dec 5 : The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) on Tuesday decided to keep the cash rate target on hold at 4.35 per cent, after raising the rate by 25 basis points last month. | 05-Dec-2023 |
Bill passed to prevent controversial Jap | Tokyo, Dec 5 : Japan's lower house on Tuesday passed a bill to prevent the controversial religious sect Unification Church from moving assets as concerns grew that the religious group would attempt to hide its funds overseas as it faces compensation demands. | 05-Dec-2023 |
Philippines inflation rate hits 20-month | Manila, Dec 5 : The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) on Tuesday said that year-on-year inflation in the country further eased to 4.1 per cent in November, the lowest since March 2022, mainly due to lower food prices. | 05-Dec-2023 |
Indonesia sets up tourism fund to boost | Jakarta, Dec 5 : The Indonesian government is currently establishing a tourism fund to support the country in developing sustainable tourism and attract more visitors, a Minister said. | 05-Dec-2023 |
8 people hospitalised in Texas after che | Houston, Dec 5 : Eight people have been hospitalised after being exposed to chemicals at a facility in US state of Texas, authorities said. | 05-Dec-2023 |
Israel-Hamas war resumes after week-long | Gaza Strip, Dec 4 : The fragile seven-day truce during current Israel-Hamas war collapsed December 1, with both sides blaming each other for it. The following day, the Israeli military admitted that it launched more than 400 strikes on the Gaza Strip in the first 24 hours after the ceasefire collapsed and expanded its operations to south Gaza, besides continuing strikes on northern Gaza. | 04-Dec-2023 |
Indian-origin Dave Sharma officially swo | Canberra, Dec 4 : Dave Sharma, who became the first Indian-origin lawmaker in Australia's Parliament in 2019, was sworn in as a Senator on Monday, December 4, after his victory in the New South Wales Liberal Senate race. | 04-Dec-2023 |
7.4-magnitude quake kills 1 in Philippin | MANILA, Jan 3 : A powerful magnitude 7.6 earthquake struck the southern Philippines on Saturday, the US Geological Survey reported, followed by four major aftershocks that sent residents fleeing from coastal areas before tsunami warnings were lifted. | 03-Dec-2023 |
4 killed as deadly explosion rocks Phili | Manila, Dec 3 : At least four persons were killed and 50 others injured in an explosion while people gathered for a Catholic mass inside a gym at the Mindanao State University in the Philippines' southern province of Lanao del Sur on Sunday, according to the military and police. | 03-Dec-2023 |
S. Korea to see negative growth in 2050 | Seoul, Dec 3 : South Korea is set to report negative economic growth in 2050 if the country fails to reverse its accelerating birth-rate decline, the central bank said on Sunday. | 03-Dec-2023 |
As Ukraine War drags on, Russia prepares | New Delhi, Dec 2 : Amid the conflict in Ukraine, Russia will head to polls in March 2024 to elect a new President. | 02-Dec-2023 |
Without 'de-Hamasification', any Arab-le | New Delhi, Dec 2 : Installing the Palestinian Authority in Gaza would inevitably lead to the re-emergence of a terror state and any future autonomous entity in Gaza should meet conditions that ensure it will live in peace with the State of Israel and promote the prosperity of its residents, according to an expert. | 02-Dec-2023 |
Israel has no coherent roadmap acceptabl | New Delhi, Dec 2 : Israel has no coherent roadmap for Gaza's future, with the return of the Palestinian Authority, an Arab/international military presence, or an Israeli re-occupation all creating new problems of their own, said Giorgio Cafiero, CEO of Gulf State Analytics. | 02-Dec-2023 |
Moving from rejection of Israel, India m | New York, Dec 2 : In its slow march towards realpolitik, India has come a long way from looking at Palestine through the prism of its independence struggle and the trauma of partition and rejecting Israel to supporting the two-state solution of sovereign Israel and Palestine nations living as neighbours. | 02-Dec-2023 |
With PA's image in tatters, hard to visu | New Delhi, Dec 2 : Gaza has been governed by Hamas since 2007, when the political arm of the militant outfit took charge of the coastal strip. | 02-Dec-2023 |