DUBAI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has written a letter to UAE President Sheikh Mohamed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan to further strengthen the strategic relations between the two countries and the prospects of developing them to serve their common interests, the official media here reported. Prime Minister Modi’s letter was delivered by the External Affairs Minister […]
WASHINGTON: Two top American senators have condemned the display of a bulldozer at the India Day Parade in Edison, New Jersey, last month. Offices of senators Bob Menendez and Cory Booker this week met a delegation of the Indian-America Muslim Council, New Jersey chapter of the CAIR, and several groups of the community who are […]
Chennai: Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari on Saturday unveiled India’s first prototype of drone transportation of human organs to facilitate quick organ transplant in hospitals. The use of drones in moving the harvested organs from the airport to the hospital, as against the present mode of transporting them by road from airport, […]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s farmers are still counting their losses from the devastating floods that have put a third of the country under water, but the long-term impact is already clear. “We have gone back 50 years,” said Ashraf Ali Bhanbro, a farmer in Sindh province whose 2,500 acres of cotton and sugarcane — on the verge […]
New Delhi: The Congress on Saturday hit out at Union minister Nirmala Sitharaman for asking a district collector as to why Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s picture was missing from a ration shop in Telangana, saying such “melodrama” from her to remain in the PM’s “good books” was highly unbecoming. Sitharaman on Friday pulled up Kamareddy […]
Noida: Residents of Emerald Court housing society here on Saturday said they would object to any attempt by builder Supertech Group to construct another housing tower at the spot where the illegal twin towers existed and would move court once again, if needed. Their response came after the real estate group, which incurred an estimated […]
DUBAI: The famed top-order would be desperate for course correction while the bowling attack could be rejigged as India aim for a ‘Sunday Encore’ against Pakistan in an Asia Cup ‘Super 4s’ clash. If top-order’s Powerplay philosophy is a problem, the inexperience of Avesh Khan at the death is no less a worry as the […]
Washington: The US State Department has approved a potential $1.1 billion sale of military equipment to Taiwan, including 60 anti-ship missiles and 100 air-to-air missiles, with China threatening to take counter-measures. The Pentagon announced the package on Friday in the wake of China’s aggressive military drills around Taiwan following a visit to the island last […]
ISTANBUL: Turkey can mediate in a standoff over Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station which is occupied by Moscow’s troops, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Saturday. “President Erdogan stated that Turkey can play a facilitator role in the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, as they did in the grain deal,” the Turkish […]
KYIV: Ukrainian forces attempted to capture the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in an attack on the facility on Friday night, Russia’s defence ministry said in its daily briefing on Saturday. The ministry said a Ukrainian naval force of more than 250 troops attempted to land on the coast of a lake near the Zaporizhzhia plant […]