After an air strike attributed to Israel by Tehran destroyed an Iran consulate building in Damascus and killed 12 people including senior military commanders, India said on Thursday that it’s stressed at the escalating tensions in the region and urged all parties to avoid any action that violated international law.TheContinue Reading
NEW YORK: Donald Trump hit out Tuesday at a New York judge for extending a gag order preventing the former US president from attacking those involved in his upcoming hush money trial, calling it “election interference”.On Monday, the judge presiding over Trump’s trial for allegedly making pre-election payments to aContinue Reading
NEW DELHI: The High Court in London on Wednesday ruled that a luxury apartment linked to the fugitive diamond merchant Nirav Modi could be sold for a value not less than GBP 5.25 million.Master James Brightwell, the judge presiding over a hearing attended remotely by the 52-year-old Nirav from ThamesideContinue Reading
NEW DELHI: UAE-based Indian businessman and philanthropist donated Rs 2.25 crore to facilitate the release of 900 prisoners from Gulf jails. The 66-year-old Firoz Merchant’s effort came as a pre-Ramzan gesture.“Prominent Dubai-based Indian businessman and philanthropist Firoz Merchant of Pure Gold has donated close to Rs 2.25 Crores (AED 1Continue Reading
NEW DELHI: NEW DELHI: As tensions between India and Maldives continue to rise, a Chinese research ship Xiang Yang Hong 03 is scheduled to reach Maldives, according to global ship-tracking data. This comes just three months after a similar vessel’s presence in the Indian Ocean raised security concerns in India.TheContinue Reading
ABU DHABI: In a display of interfaith solidarity, the Gurudwara in Dubai distributed 5,000 ‘langar‘ meals at the inauguration of the first Hindu stone temple here on Wednesday. The temple was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a dedication ceremony attended by over 5,000 invitees. Surender Singh Kandhari, chairmanContinue Reading
JAIPUR: US Ambassador to India Eric Garcetti said India is in the “driving seat” of the Quad, while America is in the seat next to it with the “corrective steering wheel”, and added that it is up to India to “forcefully define” the nature of the diplomatic partnership. Garcetti, speakingContinue Reading
NEW DELHI: Gurdaib Singh Pala Singh, an Indian-origin former Singaporean lawyer has been sentenced to almost four years in jail for misappropriating SGD 480,000 entrusted to him by three clients.According to a news report, the 70-year-old committed these offenses between 2011 and 2016. Despite being removed from legal practice inContinue Reading
For the first time, EU will appoint a military attaché in India as it looks to strengthen security and defence ties with the country, and also to add teeth to its Indo-Pacific strategy that it announced in 2021.The appointment is significant, coming as it does amid EU’s pivot to theContinue Reading
MUMBAI: Prime minister Narendra Modi on Saturday asserted that India will leave “no stone unturned” in its efforts to organise the 2036 Olympics as the government expressed a strong desire to host the biggest sporting event in the world. Modi declared open the 141st Session of the International Olympic CommitteeContinue Reading