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 […]
Beijing: China on Saturday maintained silence on India’s abstention at the voting at the UNHRC on the human rights situation in Xinjiang, but defended its crackdown against Uygur Muslims, saying it was aimed at countering “terrorism and separatism.” China’s comments came after India abstained from voting on the Xinjiang issue at the United Nations Human […]
Kyiv: Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant has lost its last source of external power after renewed shelling and is relying on emergency generators, the UN’s nuclear watchdog said on Saturday. “The resumption of shelling, hitting the plant’s sole source of external power, is tremendously irresponsible,” International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) director general Rafael Grossi said. Although […]
MOSCOW: Russia on Saturday appointed a new general to lead the Ukraine offensive after Moscow suffered a series of military setbacks that triggered criticism of the army’s leadership. The Russian defence ministry said General Sergey Surovikin had been appointed “commander of the Joint Grouping of Forces in the areas of the special military operation”, using […]
LONDON: The Indian High Commission here has said that it is investigating reports of unauthorised agents illegally charging fees to get visas processed for travellers to India, amid reports of a severe visa crunch faced by British tourists to the country. While British travellers booked to fly out to India in the coming weeks have […]
United Nations: The UN General Assembly expressed solidarity Friday with flood-battered Pakistan and called on the international community to increase aid and keep up the political will to support the country’s recovery long-term. The assembly passed a resolution that made all those points. It also urged the UN to step up efforts to “sensitize the […]
Washington: The relationship between India and the United States is moving in the right direction, the Pentagon has said, noting that the two countries are particularly focused on the interoperability between their militaries. According to the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) website, defence relationship has emerged as a major pillar of India-US strategic partnership. The […]
GENEVA: The U.N.’s top human rights body voted Friday to appoint an independent expert to step up scrutiny of Russia’s rights record at home as arbitrary arrests, a crackdown on dissenting voices and limits on free speech worsen during the war in Ukraine. The 47-member Human Rights Council passed the proposal, presented last week by […]
Seoul: The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan launched a new round of naval drills with South Korean warships on Friday, a day after North Korea fired more ballistic missiles and flew warplanes in an escalation of tensions with its rivals. The Reagan and its battle group returned to the waters near the Korean Peninsula […]