United Nations: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is telling Russian President Vladimir Putin to not send Russian troops against Ukraine and “give peace a chance”. Guterres opened an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council late Wednesday saying the day was full of rumours and indications that an offensive against Ukraine is imminent. In the […]
Washington: Airspace over all of Ukraine has been shut down to civilian air traffic, according to a notice posted to air crews early Thursday. A commercial flight tracking website shows that an Israeli El Al Boeing 787 from Tel Aviv to Toronto turned abruptly out of Ukrainian airspace before detouring over Romania, Hungary, Slovakia […]
Jammu: An alleged overground worker of The Resistance Front (TRF), an offshoot of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) outfit, was arrested by the police and a grenade recovered here, officials said. The timely arrest of the suspect foiled the militants’ plan to carry out a grenade attack in the winter capital Jammu, the officials said. Shakir Ahmad Naikoo, […]
New Delhi: India is engaged in talks with China on the eastern Ladakh border standoff with absolute clarity that it will not agree to any change in the status quo or any attempt to unilaterally alter the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in the region, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said. In an interactive […]
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said it is now time that 100 per cent saturation is achieved in providing basic facilities such as water, electricity, gas connections, toilets and roads to people, as he asserted that the Union budget 2022-23 has laid out a clear roadmap for achieving this. Addressing a webinar […]
Kyiv: Ukraine’s top security official Oleksiy Danilov said on Wednesday that Ukraine would impose a state of emergency on all of its territory, apart from the Donetsk and Luhansk regions where it has been in place since 2014. He said that the emergency state would last 30 days and could be extended for another 30 […]
NEW DELHI: Asserting that ‘Neighbourhood First’ must deliver in difficult times, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Wednesday said this is a time for India to step up its support to its neighbours by understanding their problems and help out. Speaking at the Asia Economic Dialogue via video conferencing, he cited the Indian government’s efforts […]
NEW DELHI: India logged 15,102 new coronavirus infections, taking the total tally of COVID-19 cases to 4,28,67,031, while the active cases declined to 1,64,522, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Wednesday. The death toll climbed to 5,12,622 with 278 fresh fatalities, the data updated at 8 am stated. The daily COVID-19 cases […]
MUMBAI: Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik is being troubled because he spoke against the Union government and “misuse” of central probe agencies, NCP chief Sharad Pawar claimed here on Wednesday. Speaking to reporters in the wake of Malik’s questioning by the Enforcement Directorate in a money laundering case, Pawar said the NCP had anticipated such an […]
UNITED NATIONS: The world is facing the “biggest global peace and security crisis” in recent years, UN chief Antonio Guterres has said as he slammed Russian President Vladimir Putin for sending troops into eastern Ukraine, describing the move as a violation of Ukraine’s sovereignty and a “death blow” to the Minsk Agreements. The Secretary-General, who […]