Tel Aviv: Israel is set to approve construction of new homes for Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank but in a rare step will also grant permits for Palestinian housing construction, an Israeli security official said. The planned permits for Palestinian housing in West Bank

Copenhagen: Mineral exploration company KoBold Metals, backed by billionaires including Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates, has signed an agreement with London-listed Bluejay Mining to search in Greenland for critical materials used in electric vehicles. KoBold, which uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to hunt for raw

Rawalpindi: Pakistan on Thursday successfully conducted the training launch of the 'Ghaznavi' — a surface-to-surface ballistic missile, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said. According to the military’s media wing, the launch was conducted by the Army Strategic Forces Command and was aimed at “ensuring operational readiness”

Sriharikota: An Indian rocket failed in its attempt on Thursday to put a satellite into orbit to provide real-time images used to monitor cyclones and other potential natural disasters. A technical fault occurred in the third and final ignition stage shortly after the rocket was launched

New Delhi: Over one month and two FIRs – by the Delhi and Uttar Pradesh Police – later, not a single arrest has been made in connection with the ‘Sulli Deals’ controversy. In a disturbing display of selective misogyny targeting Muslim women, photos of hundreds of

Pratapgarh: The opposition parties have strongly criticized the Yogi Adityanath government in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh over the cold-blooded murder of two Dalit youth in Pratapgarh. Leader of Opposition in the UP state Assembly and senior Samajwadi party leader, Ram Govind Chaudhary, said the

New Delhi: The Indian National Congress said on Thursday that Twitter has locked the party’s official account, as well as, accounts of 5,000 of its leaders and workers as “selective” action for sharing a photograph of the family of a nine-year-old rape victim, reported NDTV. The

Dandong: A Chinese court jailed Canadian businessman Michael Spavor for 11 years for spying, a sentence swiftly condemned by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as “unacceptable and unjust.” Spavor was detained in 2018 along with compatriot Michael Kovrig on what Ottawa has said are politically orchestrated charges

New Delhi: Videos of a group shouting violent anti-Muslim slogans during a protest in the heart of Delhi, near parliament and top government offices, have gone viral but no one has been arrested till now. In the clips circulating on social media, slogans threaten the killing