Dubai A NOTAM (notice to airmen) issued by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) civil aviation authority informed the airlines of suspension of flight services to and from 14 countries including India till July 21. This has literally poured cold water on the vacation travel plans

Tehran: Iran s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has granted clemency to more than 5,000 prisoners to mark a Shiite religious holiday, a statement on his official website said Saturday. The statement gave no details of the identity of the 5,156 prisoners who were pardoned or

Islamabad:  President Dr Arif Alvi has urged international community to take note of recent incidents of illegal selling of Uranium in black market in India, as such radioactive material can fall into wrong hands endangering human lives and security of the nations. He made these remarks

Minneapolis: Former policeman Derek Chauvin was sentenced to 22 and a half years in prison on Friday for the murder of African American George Floyd, the killing that sparked America’s biggest demonstrations for racial justice in decades. The white, 45-year-old Chauvin gave his "condolences" to the

New Delhi: Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram has termed the decision of Narendra Modi led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government’s decision to hold elections in the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir first and grant statehood later as ‘bizarre’ Taking to twitter, he said the Congress

Beijing: China has operationalised its first fully electrified bullet train in the remote Himalayan region of Tibet, connecting the provincial capital Lhasa and Nyingchi, a strategically located Tibetan border town close to the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh. The 435.5-km Lhasa-Nyingchi section of the Sichuan-Tibet Railway

Srinagar: Around two dozen petitions challenging the validity of the J&K Reorganisation Act 2019 – which divided Jammu and Kashmir into two union territories – and abrogation of Article 370 remain pending before the Supreme Court of India for almost two years. According to a report,

London: Prince Charles continued to financially support the Duke and Duchess of Sussex after they stepped down as senior members of the British royal family, according to financial accounts released Thursday. Prince Charles’s office, Clarence House, published in its annual accounts that Charles paid his sons,

Beijing: Foreign Minister Wang Yi said China remains deeply committed to United Nations peacekeeping efforts, where more than 2,400 Chinese troops and police are serving — a contribution that underscores China's increasing prominence in the world body. Speaking on Friday (Jun 25) at a symposium to

Zurich: Switzerland’s move to allow large public events with 10,000-plus people from Saturday comes as government data appears to show vaccines are helping control new infections that are mostly hitting people who remain unprotected. Only 209 of 180,000 new infections recorded in Switzerland between Jan 27