Seoul: South Korea said Tuesday it’s capable of detecting and intercepting the variety of missiles North Korea launched in a barrage of recent simulated nuclear attacks on its rivals, though it maintains the North’s advancing nuclear program poses a grave security threat. North Korea said Monday its two weeks of firing drills involved nuclear-capable ballistic […]
CANBERRA: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Monday that the Ukraine conflict does not serve the interests of anybody, as he stressed that India was against such hostilities as it can have a “very profound impact” on everybody across the world. During a joint press meeting with his Australian counterpart Penny Wong here, Jaishankar […]
UNITED NATIONS: The UN General Assembly on Monday will open debate on a draft resolution condemning Russia’s annexation of four Ukrainian regions, as Western powers seek to underscore Moscow’s international isolation. The decision to bring the matter before the General Assembly, where the 193 UN members have one vote each — and no one wields […]
Taipei: War between Taiwan and China is “absolutely not an option”, Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen said on Monday, as she reiterated her willingness to talk to Beijing and also pledged to boost the island’s defences including with precision missiles. Democratic Taiwan, which China claims as its territory, has come under increasing military and political pressure […]
VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis on Sunday urged the world to learn from history on the threat of nuclear war over Ukraine and choose the path of peace. Looking back to the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s, “we cannot forget the danger of nuclear war that threatened the world at that time”, the pope said […]
Seoul: North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles toward its eastern waters on Sunday, the latest in its barrage of weapons tests in recent days, after the North warned against the US redeployment of an aircraft carrier for a new round of drills with South Korean warships. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said in […]
Washington: The United States has issued four travel advisories for India this year and since March 28 maintained the same low Level 2 exercise increased caution for its citizens planning to travel to the country. Introduced several years ago, the American travel advisories maintained and issued by the Department of State is now broadly bifurcated […]
London: Data localisation and UK companies being allowed to bid for Indian government contracts are among the issues causing a possible deadlock in the final stages of the India-UK free trade agreement (FTA) negotiations towards a Diwali draft completion deadline, according to a UK media report on Sunday. ‘The Daily Telegraph’ quoted a source close […]
KYIV: A Russian attack on Zaporizhzhia overnight struck apartment buildings and killed at least 17 people, a top official in the Ukrainian city said on Sunday. City council Secretary Anatoliy Kurtev said the city was struck by rockets overnight, and that at least five private houses were destroyed and around 40 were damaged. The Ukrainian […]
He said poor people in the country have more money in their hand that showed up in the recent poverty report of the World Bank WASHINGTON: India has been one of the leaders in digitisation that empowers and expands the social safety net, World Bank President David Malpass said on Friday. Malpass, during a conference […]