Haryana: The agitation against farm laws enacted last year returned to the spotlight when Haryana Police cracked down on farmers in Karnal, leaving several injured in a lathi-charge at the Bastara Toll Plaza on the national highway. The farmers were protesting against a BJP meeting on

Uttrakhand: Two officials in Uttarakhand have been suspended for their alleged involvement in the fake COVID-19 testing scam during the Kumbh Mela in Haridwar. The then Mela officer (medical and health) Dr. Arjun Singh Sengar and officer-in-charge (medical and health) Dr. N.K. Tyagi were suspended on

Islamabad: Pakistan has rejected terrorism-related allegations by India, terming them as baseless. According to a statement issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Pakistan has categorically rejected Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh’s terrorism-related allegations against Pakistan. Pakistan has shared incontrovertible evidence with the international community regarding India‘s

London: British and European Union parliamentarians termed Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJ&K) former President Sardar Masood Khan’s tenure as a golden era for Kashmir cause. For the first time in the history of AJ&K, after the end of the era of the highest government official, world

New Delhi: Electoral bonds worth Rs3,429.56 crore were redeemed by political parties in financial year 2019-’20, and 87.29 percent of this was received by the Bharatiya Janata Party, the Congress, the Trinamool Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party, non-governmental organisation Association for Democratic Reforms said. Electoral

London: Britain said it will run its last evacuation flights from Kabul on Saturday before pulling out its troops, leaving several hundred Afghans otherwise eligible to fly to the UK behind. The UK is winding up its operation to airlift civilians ahead of the August 31

United Nations: Pakistan is supporting efforts to fly humanitarian supplies into Afghanistan where medical stocks are dwindling and the airport in Kabul crippled by a terrorist attack, a senior Wold Health Organization (WHO) said in Geneva. “We have only a few days of supplies left and

Washington: Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett met President Joe Biden a day after a deadly bomb attack on the US Afghanistan evacuation mission forced a postponement and cast a shadow on an Israeli charm offensive. The US had an “unwavering commitment” to Israel’s security, including replenishing

Washington: The United States launched a drone strike against a Daesh attack "planner" in eastern Afghanistan, the military said, a day after a suicide bombing at Kabul airport killed 13 US troops and scores of Afghan civilians. President Joe Biden vowed on Thursday that the United

Tehran: Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Saturday accused US President Joe Biden of making the same demands as his predecessor Donald Trump in talks to revive a nuclear deal. The multilateral deal that offers Iran relief from sanctions in return for curbs on its