Israel cancelled a planned trip of Mossad director David Barnea to Qatar to restart talks on a possible second hostage release deal, CNN reported citing a source. Mossad director David Barnea will not travel to the Qatari capital Doha, where previous talks on the release of hostages held by Hamas operatives in Gaza have taken…
The US authorities “encountered” with over 200,000 illegal Indian immigrants in the last five years with the highest cases of 96,917 reported in 2022-23, according to details furnished in Parliament by the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) while citing data from American homeland security. Minister of State for External Affairs V Muraleedharan said the US…
 India’s Uma Sekhar was elected to the governing council of the Rome-based International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT) in an election that saw 32 contestants in the fray including from the US, China, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and France, sources said on Thursday. The UNIDROIT is an independent intergovernmental organisation dealing with various…
 Days after it lost the Chhattisgarh Assembly polls, the Congress on Thursday expelled two of its former MLAs from the party and issued show cause notice to a former minister. In Assembly polls held on November 7 and 17, the BJP came back to power by winning 54 seats in the 90-member House, while the…
President Vladimir Putin on Thursday described the situation in the Gaza Strip as a “catastrophe” unfolding on a scale that could not be compared to the Ukraine conflict. Putin, whose government has maintained ties with Hamas and Israel, gave the comments during a news conference in Moscow, as his full-scale military intervention against Kyiv approaches…
For the besieged residents of Gaza who have so far survived Israel’s bombs and bullets, a silent, invisible killer is now stalking them: disease. A lack of food, clean water and shelter have worn down hundreds of thousands of traumatised people and, with a health system on its knees, it’s inevitable epidemics will rip through…
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday said the US has a “historic responsibility” to ensure a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, warning of the “negative regional and global consequences” of the conflict. The Turkish leader spoke on the phone with US President Joe Biden in their first talks since October 7, when an unprecedented…
Amazon does not have to pay 250 million euros ($273 million) in back taxes to Luxembourg, Europe’s top court ruled on Thursday, marking a defeat for EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager’s crackdown on sweetheart tax deals for multinationals. “The Court of Justice confirms that the (European) Commission has not established that the tax ruling given…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said his ‘Pariksha Pe Charcha’ initiative aims to transform stress into success, enabling students to ace exams with a smile. His remarks came on a post on X by the Union Education Ministry on Wednesday informing students, teachers and parents that ‘Pariksha Pe Charcha’, their “go-to stress-relief event” during…
The United States wants the Israel-Hamas war to end “as soon as possible,” the White House said Thursday, after Israel’s defense minister told a top US official it would last several months more. US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan had also discussed Israel moving to “low-intensity operations” against Gaza “in the near future” during his…