WASHINGTON: Different countries will engage with the Taliban regime in different ways, and India has a set of interests when it comes to engaging with them, the United States said on Monday, days after the first-ever Indian delegation visited Kabul since the hardline group took control over Afghanistan last year. Last week, India sent a […]
Kyiv: Russia claimed Tuesday it has occupied large swathes of eastern Ukraine after a relentless, weeks-long barrage and the recent deployment of more troops. Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said Moscow’s forces have liberated 97 per cent of the Luhansk region. Russia appears bent on capturing the entire eastern Donbas part of Ukraine, which is […]
Vienna: The head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog urged Iran on Monday to cooperate with his inspectors amid a standoff over its atomic program and a threat by Western nations to censure Tehran over its noncooperation. “We have to recognize that we have not been able to get the results we were expecting,” Rafael […]
WASHINGTON: The US Supreme Court on Monday asked President Joe Biden’s administration to weigh in on whether the justices should hear a case on whether Meta Platforms Inc’s WhatsApp can pursue a lawsuit accusing Israel’s NSO Group of exploiting a bug in the messaging app to install spy software. The justices are considering NSO’s appeal […]
Moscow: The Russian foreign minister has warned the West that if it provides Ukraine with long-range rockets, Moscow will respond by taking over larger areas of Ukraine. Speaking during an online news conference Monday, Sergey Lavrov said that the longer the range of weapons you supply, the farther away the line from where neo-Nazis could […]
Kathmandu: Nearly 34 tonnes of waste have been collected from four mountains, including the world’s highest peak Mount Everest, in Nepal as part of a cleaning campaign that concluded on World Environment Day, the Nepal Army said on Monday. A team led by the Nepal Army collected 33.8 tonnes of garbage during the Safa Himal […]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s main opposition party led by ousted premier Imran Khan on Monday rejected Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s offer of holding a “grand dialogue” among all stakeholders to fix the cash-starved country’s economic woes, saying the government was making “hilarious claims” to hide its failures. Prime Minister Sharif on Sunday emphasised the need for initiating […]
Doha: Qatar and Kuwait on Sunday summoned India’s Ambassadors and handed over to them protest notes on what the Gulf countries called categorical “rejection and condemnation” of the controversial remarks of a BJP leader against Prophet Mohammed. Seeking to defuse a diplomatic row, a spokesperson of the Indian Embassy in Qatar said that the “Ambassador […]
Doha: Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu on Sunday met Qatar’s Prime Minister and Interior Minister Sheikh Khalid bin Khalifa bin Abdulaziz Al Thani here and the two leaders held delegation level talks and reviewed bilateral relations including trade, investment, economic and security cooperation. Naidu, who reached here on the last leg of his three-nation tour […]
Prague: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Sunday held a meeting with a delegation of Czech Members of European Parliament and they had a good discussion on India’s ties with the EU and the Czech Republic, the Indo-Pacific, food and energy security and digital cooperation. Jaishankar is here on the last leg of his two-nation […]