LONDON: Rising tensions in West Asia have created air travel chaos, with global airlines diverting or cancelling flights on Wednesday and regional airports, including Lebanon, Israel and Kuwait, showing long delays, according to FlightRadar24 data. Concern over travel disruption as the conflict intensifies also knocked shares in the travel and airline sectors, with shares in […]
TEL AVIV: The Israel Defence Forces’ Chief of the General Staff, LTG Herzi Halevi, stated that IDF soldiers will observe the holiday in the Gaza Strip, Lebanon, Judea, Samaria, and along all borders. Halevi emphasised that the holiday is incomplete without the hostages, stressing the IDF’s determination to bring them back from Gaza. In a […]
UNITED NATIONS: Members of the UN Security Council (UNSC) have rallied to the support of Secretary-General Antonio Guterres after Israel declared him ‘persona non grata’, barring him from that country and the occupied territories. The Security Council President Pascale Baeriswyl, who is the permanent representative of Switzerland, said her country “reiterates its full support for […]
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has dismissed a writ petition filed by the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) seeking, among other things, the creation of a special investigation team to probe the alleged illegal trade of children by various child welfare organisations. A bench of Justices B.V. Nagarathna and N. Kotiswar Singh, […]
DHAKA: Bangladesh’s interim government has recalled five envoys back to the country, including the ambassador to India, according to a foreign ministry official who spoke to Reuters on Thursday. The foreign ministry instructed the envoys in “Brussels, Canberra, Lisbon, New Delhi and the permanent mission to the United Nations in New York” to return to […]
HOSHIARPUR/LUDHIANA: Movement of several trains was affected in Punjab on Thursday after farmers squatted on the tracks as part of their two-hour ‘rail roko’ protest in support of various demands, including justice in the 2021 Lakhimpur Kheri incident. The protest, organised by Samyukta Kisan Morcha (non-political) and Kisan Mazdoor Morcha, began at 12.30 pm and […]
NEW DELHI: In a relief for Jaggi Vasudev’s Isha Foundation, the Supreme Court on Thursday directed the Tamil Nadu Police to not act further in pursuance of the Madras High Court order asking it to probe alleged illegal confinement of two women at its ashram. The apex court transferred to itself a habeas corpus petition […]
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday extended greetings to fellow Indians on the first day of Navratri, wishing everyone an “auspicious” festival. “I wish all my countrymen a very Happy Navratri. May this holy festival dedicated to Shakti Vandana prove to be auspicious for everyone. Jai Mata Di!” PM Modi wrote in a […]
NEW DELHI: Amid growing fear of a wider Middle East conflict, the Indian stock market crashed in the morning trade and extended its losses in the afternoon on Thursday. The sensex was down more than 1300 points and Nifty fifty index shed around 0.97 per cent at 25,548.4 points. Most of the sectoral indices were […]
HYDERABAD: The Enforcement Directorate has summoned former Indian cricket captain and Congress politician Mohammad Azharuddin for questioning in a money laundering case linked to alleged financial irregularities in the Hyderabad Cricket Association, official sources said Thursday. The 61-year-old former Member of Parliament was asked to depose before the federal agency at its office here on […]