DOHA: Palestinian group Hamas has said it remains committed to achieving an agreement with Israel to end the war on Gaza, but only if its conditions including a lasting ceasefire are met. Khalil al-Hayya, a member of the group’s political bureau, said that Hamas “is serious about releasing Israeli captives within the framework of an […]
NEW DELHI: Making the General Assembly more effective cannot be divorced from the wider context of the reform of the UN, including the Security Council, according to India. “Revitalisation of the General Assembly must also be seen in the wider context of the overall reform of the United Nations,” Pratik Mathur, a minister at India’s […]
LONDON: British Sikh lawyers have come together to set up a new court as a dispute resolution forum for the community caught up in family and civil disputes, a UK media report said. According to ‘The Times’, the Sikh court was launched last weekend at a ceremony at the Old Hall at Lincoln’s Inn in […]
MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin has said he plans to visit China in May, in what could become the first foreign trip for the Russian leader after he extended his rule by six more years in an election that offered voters little real choice. Putin announced the plans for the visit at a congress of […]
WASHINGTON: The US has secretly delivered long-range ballistic missiles to Ukraine to be used against Russian forces, the Pentagon has confirmed, while President Joe Biden alleged that China, Iran and North Korea were supplying weapons and technology to Moscow to boost its military. President Biden secretly approved the transfer of the long-range ATACMS missiles in […]
Seeks to put astronauts on the moon by 2030 JIUQUAN (CHINA): China launched a three-member crew to its orbiting space station on Thursday as part of its ambitious programme that aims to put astronauts on the moon by 2030. The Shenzhou-18 spacecraft lifted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre on the edge of the […]
NEW DELHI: The Centralised Public Grievance Redress and Monitoring System (CPGRAMS) of India has been recognised as future-ready governance best practices from across the Commonwealth at a key meeting in London, an official statement issued on Thursday said. In the outcome statement of the meeting issued on Wednesday, the Commonwealth Secretariat shared with member countries […]
NEW DELHI: In today’s fast-paced world, where there are lots of things that can harm our bodies like polluted air, unhealthy food, and stress, taking essential care of our liver is immensely important. The liver is an essential organ which carries out various essential processes for our body, like cleaning out waste from our bodies, […]
BEIJING: The Chinese army will hold its first military exercises with its Bangladesh counterpart next month, it was announced here on Thursday, as the PLA steadily enhanced its ties with India’s neighbour by supplying a host of military equipment in recent years. According to the consensus reached between the two militaries, the People’s Liberation Army […]
NEW YORK: The world is facing the collapse of the 1948 international order established in the wake of World War II, amid the brutal wars in Gaza and Ukraine, while authoritarian policies continue to spread, Amnesty International has warned. The report accused the world’s most powerful governments, including China, Russia and the United States, of […]