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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met Iraq’s prime minister on Friday in an unannounced visit as he seeks to coordinate a regional approach to Syria following the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad.The top US diplomat flew to Baghdad from the Turkish capital Ankara and headed into talks with Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani, an […]

As many as 86 Indians were attacked or murdered abroad in the year 2023, Minister of state for external affairs, Kirti Vardhan Singh on Thursday informed Parliament. A steep increase from the previous two years of 29 cases in 2021 and 57 in 2022. Of these, 12 were in the United States, and 10 each […]

Basim Faiz Mawat stood in the Damascus cell that his fellow prisoners used to call the “death dormitory”, struggling to believe that the system that abused him for so long had been overthrown and his suffering had ended. “I came here today only to see that truly nothing lasts forever,” the 48-year-old said as he […]

Expressing disappointment with the CBI investigation, the parents of the doctor who was raped and murdered at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital said on Friday that they were heartbroken with the two key suspects in the case getting bail and it seemed like the “system” was failing them. A court in Kolkata’s Sealdah […]

Turkey’s competition authority has fined Alphabet Inc’s Google 2.61 billion lira ($75 million), for taking advantage of its dominant position in ad server services market, the regulator said in a statement on Friday. The antitrust body said Google has favored its own supply-side platform (SSP) service over rivals and that move made its competitors’ operations […]

Most of the Indian nationals in the Russian armed forces have been discharged and only 19 of them are currently deputed there, the government informed the Lok Sabha on Friday. Minister of State for External Affairs Kirti Vardhan Singh shared the data in a written response to a query about the number of Indian nationals […]

The PWD-Water Resources Department (WRD) is undertaking the desilting of the Ooty lake and boat house, as efforts to clean up the polluted water body gains momentum. According to officials from the department, the storage capacity of the Ooty lake has reduced by around 30 per cent since the early 1990s, due to the build […]

Kerala has been recognised as a leader in transparency, public accountability, and the dissemination of information, Chief Information Commissioner Hiralal Samariya said. Speaking at the National RTI Award ceremony, where Kerala’s State Information Commissioner A.A. Hakkim was presented with the award, Mr. Samariya lauded Kerala as a model State for its “exemplary performance in resolving […]

Congress leader and newly elected Lok Sabha MP from Wayanad, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, made her maiden speech in Parliament on December 13. Rahul Gandhi was full of praise, saying it was better than his maiden speech. She said had it not been for the Lok Sabha election results, in which the BJP scraped through to […]

Twelve schools in Alappuzha district have been recognised for their outstanding contributions to ‘Orupidi Nanma’, an initiative by the district administration that empowers families living in extreme poverty through the active involvement of school students. Government Upper Primary School, Parayakad, Government Upper Primary School, Anjilipra and St. Joseph’s Girls High School, Alappuzha won the first […]

AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K. Palaniswami on Friday urged the DMK government to take steps to complete the enumeration process ascertaining the loss incurred by farmers due to heavy rains and to announce relief to them. In a statement, the former CM pointed out that standing crops have been affected by rains in Cuddalore, Mayiladuthurai, […]

Image Source : SCREENGRAB MEA spokesperson addressing weekly media briefing Addressing the weekly media briefing, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal on reports circulating in the Canadian media regarding the denial of granting Indian visas to certain applicants in Canada, said that granting of Indian visas is the country’s sovereign right. He added that […]