Chandigarh, Feb 21 Claiming that the ongoing agitation of farmers has been handled in an apt and diligent manner in the state, the Punjab government on Wednesday refuted the allegations that the law and order situation has deteriorated in the state. On the directions of Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, Chief Secretary Anurag Verma has written…
Paris, Feb 21 The French Navy has shot down two aerial drones from Yemen over the Red Sea where Houthi attacks have targeted international commercial vessels, the French Ministry of the Armed Forces said. “During the night of February 19-20, the French Multi-Mission Frigates detected multiple drone attacks from Yemen in their respective patrol zones…
London, Feb 21 A 24-year-old man is due to appear in a UK court on Wednesday in connection with the murder of an Indian restaurant manager who was hit by a vehicle as he was cycling home from work last week. Shazeb Khalid of no fixed address was arrested and charged with one count of…
Islamabad, Feb 21 PML-N president Shehbaz Sharif is set to become the Prime Minister of Pakistan while PPP co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari is slated to be the President of the country, according to PPP chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari. After days of hectic parleys, the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) late…
Tel Aviv, Feb 21 The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have stepped up its search operations for Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, widely believed to be the mastermind of the October 7 attack on Israel. The IDF, according to Israel defense ministry sources, stepped up the action against Sinwar after Israeli intelligence agencies and its military intelligence…
New York, Feb 21 Indian-American Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi is planning to run for the US Senate in 2026, according to a top US magazine that has placed the representative in the list of 50 most powerful in Chicago, a city in Illinois state. Born in New Delhi to parents from Tamil Nadu and raised in…
Damascus, Feb 21 Two people were killed on Wednesday in an Israeli missile strike on a residential building here, the Syrian Defence Ministry said. The Israeli army launched an aerial attack around 9:40 a.m. (0640 GMT) with several missiles targeting a residential building near the Cham City Center shopping mall and an Iranian school in…
New Delhi, Feb 21 Twenty-three lakh Indian diaspora are reinforcing New Delhi-Ottawa relations and contributing to the development of both nations, Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Science and Technology Jitendra Singh said as he met a high-level delegation on Wednesday. Singh told Scott Moe, Premier of Saskatchewan province who was leading the delegation, that…
Kathmandu, Feb 21 Nepal is witnessing a growing call for the restoration of the Hindu state. The erstwhile Hindu state, adopted federal, secular, and democratic identity in 2008. The changes took place after the CPN (Maoist) decided to join the political mainstream after shunning the decade-long “people’s war” in 2006 that killed over 13,000 people….
Quetta, Feb 21 Widespread protests persisted against alleged poll rigging in Quetta and other regions of Balochistan, marking a significant escalation in unrest, a media report said. The four-party alliance comprising Baloch, Pashtun and Hazara nationalist parties has been on a sit-in outside the deputy commissioner’s office in Quetta, denouncing the purported election irregularities, The…
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