Iran waives visa requirement for Indian tourists

IANS | February 6, 2024 7:20 PM

New Delhi, Feb 6 (IANS) Indian tourists do not need a visa for visiting Iran with a new policy coming into effect from February 4, according to a statement issued by the Embassy of Iran here on Tuesday.

S.Korea's NSA meets Russian Deputy FM during Seoul visit: Sources

IANS | February 6, 2024 12:53 PM

Seoul, Feb 6 (IANS) South Korea's National Security Adviser Chang Ho-jin met with Russia Deputy Foreign Minister Andrey Rudenko when he visited Seoul last week, sources said on Tuesday, amid heightened tensions between Seoul and Moscow over North Korea.

Discontinuing UNRWA funding will have disastrous repercussions: Qatar's PM

IANS | February 5, 2024 9:15 AM

Tel Aviv, Feb 5 (IANS) Qatar's Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani has said that there would be "disastrous repercussions" in the stability of the region if funding for United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) is halted.

West Asia faces faith-based politics (Column: The Third Eye)

D.C. Pathak | February 4, 2024 10:00 AM

New Delhi: The turn of events involving Iran's cross-border missile attack on January 16 on the camps of Jaish-al Adl, a Sunni extremist organisation working out of Baluchistan demanding an independent Baluch nation and a retaliatory action of the same kind carried out by Pakistan on January 18 in the adjoining area of Iran - on the ground that supporters of the Salafi outfit operated from Iran as well - have more than anything else, unravelled the rapidly rising militancy attributable to the growth of extremism in the Muslim world on one hand and the inevitable outbreak of sectarian violence between Sunnis and Shiites resulting from it, on the other.