New Delhi, May 17 , 2024 : Stepping up its attack on Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on the Swati Maliwal alleged assault case, the BJP on Friday termed the treatment meted out by the Aam Aadmi Party to one of their own as “shameful and shocking” as it questioned the CM’s silence on the…
New Delhi, May 17 , 2024 : India and Mongolia reviewed progress on various bilateral defence cooperation initiatives and identified means to further enhance cooperation. They exchanged views on the current geopolitical situation at the 12th Joint Working Group (JWG) meeting between the Defence Ministries of India and Mongolia that took place in Ulaanbaatar on…
Dubai, May 17 , 2024 : The ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2024 warm-up match fixtures have been announced, scheduled from May 27 to June 1 across the USA and Trinidad and Tobago. The venues hosting the 16 warm-up matches ahead of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2024 include Grand Prairie Cricket Stadium in…
Tehran, May 17 , 2024 : At least seven people have lost their lives in a flash flood triggered by heavy rains in the northeastern Iranian city of Mashhad, Iranian official news agency IRNA reported on Thursday. Two people trapped inside a car by floodwaters were killed at the Enqelab Square in Mashhad in the…
Tokyo, May 17 , 2024 : Japan on Friday started the sixth round of release of nuclearcontaminated wastewater from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant into the Pacific Ocean. Despite furious opposition at home and abroad, Tokyo Electric Power Company, the plant’s operator, started releasing the radioactive wastewater in the morning, the second round…
Gaza, May 17 , 2024 : The United Nations (UN) on Thursday considered humanitarian aid distribution “almost impossible” in the Gaza Strip amid the ongoing war between Israel and the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), which has lasted over 200 days. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said that distributing humanitarian aid…
Moscow, May 17 , 2024 : Russia does not rule out the possibility of downgrading its diplomatic relations with the United States in certain scenarios, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Thursday. In an interview with TASS news agency, Ryabkov said that Russia has never taken the initiative to make such moves in…
Washington, May 17 , 2024 : The Republicancontrolled U.S. House of Representatives voted Thursday to pass a bill that seeks to undo President Joe Biden’s temporary suspension of arms transfer to Israel. The bill, called the Israel Security Assistance Support Act, was passed by the lower chamber of the U.S. Congress in a 224-187 vote.…
Tehran, May 17 , 2024: Iran has rejected the U.S. accusations that it was “transferring weaponry” to the Yemen-based Houthis, enabling them to carry out attacks on ships in the Red Sea and elsewhere, the official news agency IRNA reported on Thursday. Iran’s UN Ambassador Amir Saeid Iravani made the remarks in a letter to…
Faridabad, May 16,2024: Mahendra Pratap Singh, the candidate of congress for parliamentary elections from Faridabad, met the farmers staging protest and assured them that it would be top most priority for him to get a passing cut made at Mohna on the green expressway, once he wins the election. He assured the villagers that if…