New Delhi, Aug 18 (IANS) The baton has been passed on to the people of Jammu & Kashmir. The announcement of elections is the first step towards restoring the right to choose the government and it is now over to the people to elect a dispensation they deem fit to carry them forward. But it is here where the real challenges lay.
Dhaka, Aug 18 (IANS) The Bangladeshi government has decided to screen passengers arriving from mpox-hit nations, with increasing mpox cases elsewhere in the world.
Cairo, Aug 18 (IANS) Negotiations on a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel in the Gaza Strip will reportedly resume on Wednesday in Cairo.
Washington, Aug 17 (IANS) The past two days of negotiations in Doha for a ceasefire-hostage deal between Israel and Hamas were the most constructive that mediators had seen in months, a senior Biden administration official told reporters.
New Delhi, Aug 17 (IANS) India and Japan are set to hold the upcoming third round of the 2+2 Foreign and Defence Ministers' Meeting on August 20 in New Delhi to advance their strategic partnership, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said.
New York, Aug 16 (IANS) A Pakistani-American, who travelled to Pakistan to join Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) to fight in Kashmir or Afghanistan, has been released after a federal judge sentenced him to 20 years of "supervised release", sparing him further prison time.
Guwahati, August 15 (IANS) Banned militant outfit United Liberation Front of Asom-Independent (ULFA-I) claimed on Thursday that its has planted bombs in 24 locations across Assam.
New Delhi, Aug 15 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said that the country is becoming ‘Aatmanirbhar’ in Defence and is emerging as a global manufacturing hub due to the steps taken by the government in the last few years.
Kolkata, Aug 15 (IANS) After the emergency department of the state-run R.G Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata was ransacked by a violent mob few minutes after Wednesday midnight, the Kolkata Police Commissioner Vineet Kumar Goyal said that "continuous negative media propaganda over the brutal rape and murder of a woman junior doctor last week" as the main reason which led to the vandalism of the hospital.
Bengaluru, Aug 15 (IANS) Karnataka Congress MLA Rizwan Arshad on Wednesday wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, appealing him to address the political turmoil and reported atrocities on Hindu minorities in Bangladesh.
