TEL AVIV: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed that the country’s forces have successfully targeted and eliminated potential successors to the recently deceased Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah. In a video message released on Tuesday (local time), Netanyahu said, “We’ve degraded Hezbollah’s capabilities. We took out thousands of terrorists, including Nasrallah himself and Nasrallah’s replacement, […]
DEIR AL-BALAH, GAZA STRIP: A large-scale Israeli operation in northern Gaza has killed dozens of people and threatens to shut down three hospitals over a year into the war with Hamas, Palestinian officials and residents said Wednesday. Heavy fighting was underway in Jabaliya, where Israeli forces have carried out several major operations over the course […]
NEW DELHI: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has decided to keep the policy rate unchanged at 6.5 per cent with a majority vote of 5:1. Announcing the decision, Governor Shaktikanta Das said the MPC decided unanimously to change stance to neutral and remain unambiguously focussed on endurable alignment of inflation […]
BEIRUT: The escalation of violence and destruction along the Lebanon-Israel border will neither solve the core issues nor bring security to any relevant parties in the long run, United Nations officials said. It has been one year “since near-daily exchanges of fire commenced across the Blue Line,” in which “far too many lives have been […]
NEW DELHI: The Congress on Wednesday hit back at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his attack on the party while virtually inaugurating development projects for Maharashtra, saying taxpayers’ money cannot and should not be used to indulge in a “political speech”. A day after the Congress’ defeat in the Haryana polls, Modi called the opposition […]
Wins 42 Seats, Set To Form Govt With Congress; PDP Loses Both On Seats Tally, Vote Share Srinagar/Jammu: The INDIA bloc is poised to form the first elected government in Jammu and Kashmir, having secured a victory in the assembly elections by securing 49 out of 90 seats on which polls were held for the […]
Srinagar: National Conference (NC) vice president Omar Abdullah on Tuesday said the INDIA bloc will stake claim to form the government in Jammu and Kashmir only after the alliance partners meet to elect the leader of the coalition in the assembly. “Let the NC legislative party meet, I am not staking a claim to the […]
Srinagar: Omar Abdullah will be the chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir, his father and National Conference president Farooq Abdullah announced on Tuesday as the party looked on course to come to power in the union territory with ally Congress. “Omar Abdullah will be the chief minister,” the senior Abdullah told reporters when asked who […]
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday congratulated Jammu and Kashmir National Conference for their commendable performance in the Assembly elections and said he was proud of the BJP’s performance too. “I thank all those who have voted for our party and placed their trust in us. I assure the people that we will […]
New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday said democracy has been revived in Jammu and Kashmir with the successful conduct of assembly election as promised by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Congratulating people of the Union Territory (UT) for their participation in the polls, Shah also said for the first time since the advent […]