Kathmandu, Oct 11 (IANS) Massive flooding in the Budhi Gandaki River in Nepal's western Gorkha district swept away dozens of houses and other infrastructure, in an incident reminiscent of the devastating floods in the Bhote Koshi and Trishuli rivers on August 26, a senior district official said on Sunday.
Washington, Oct 11 (IANS) The number of Indian Americans in the US House of Representatives is set to fall from six to four after the November 3 midterm elections unless Democrats Amish Shah in Arizona or Pia Dandiya in Florida win their closely fought races, as Congressmen Raja Krishnamoorthi and Shri Thanedar prepare to leave the chamber.
Washington, Oct 11 (IANS) Indian-American Republican Vivek Ramaswamy's race for Ohio governor against Democrat Amy Acton is now rated a toss-up by all three major forecasters, as he seeks to become only the third Indian-American governor in US history after Bobby Jindal and Nikki Haley.
London, Oct 11 (IANS) British Prime Minister Andy Burnham reiterated his "complete solidarity" with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky amid tensions between Washington and Kyiv over a US-Russia agreement on diesel supplies.
Riyadh, Oct 11 (IANS) An attack targeting King Khalid International Airport in the Saudi capital Riyadh on Saturday afternoon has killed 12 people and injured 309 others, the Saudi General Authority of Civil Aviation said, as Yemen's Houthi group and Saudi Arabia continued exchanging strikes on major airports.
New Delhi, Oct 11 (IANS) A graffiti mural of Nobel laureate poet Rabindranath Tagore was defaced outside the Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy in Dhaka. Following this act of vandalism, police detained four people, including a woman, for questioning.
Geneva, Oct 11 (IANS) India on Saturday rejected the remarks of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on the detentions during protests in New Delhi, calling its concerns misplaced and an unwarranted interference in the country’s internal affairs.
Bucharest, Oct 11 (IANS) Three Indian nationals rescued from the commercial vessel MV Royad Mammadov, which came under attack in the Black Sea, departed from Romania for India on Saturday, the Embassy of India in Bucharest said.
Dhaka, Oct 10 (IANS) Bangladesh’s National Citizen Party (NCP) convener Nahid Islam, whose party has allied with the radical Islamist Jamaat-e-Islami and one of whose leaders had reportedly threatened to capture India’s ‘Seven Sisters’ and the Siliguri Corridor, on Saturday weighed in on India’s internal affairs, backing the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP)-led protests.
Addis Ababa, Oct 10 (IANS) External Affairs Minister (EAM) S. Jaishankar on Saturday chaired a conference of India’s Heads of Mission in Africa in Addis Ababa, saying India and Africa share deep linkages built upon Global South solidarity, strategic autonomy, multipolarity and common development aspirations.
