Washington: Two top US defence intelligence officials were due to testify on Capitol Hill on Tuesday about what the government knows of unidentified flying objects, in the first public congressional hearing concerning UFOs in more than 50 years. The hearing before a US House Intelligence subcommittee
Kyiv: President Vladimir Putin said Sweden and Finland joining NATO would be no threat to Russia but warned the Western alliance that moving troops or weapons into the Nordic neighbours would provoke a "response." With Moscow pressing its assault in eastern border regions of Ukraine nearly
Paris: President Emmanuel Macron named Labour Minister Elisabeth Borne as prime minister to lead his ambitious reform plans, the first woman to head the French government in over 30 years. Outgoing French Prime Minister Jean Castex earlier handed his resignation to the president, part of a
Kabul: Taliban authorities in Afghanistan dissolved five key departments of the former US-backed government, including the country's Human Rights Commission, deeming them unnecessary in the face of a financial crunch, an official said on Tuesday. Afghanistan faces a budget deficit of 44 billion Afghanis ($501 million)
Gujrat: The falling of mysterious metal balls from the sky in the Indian state of Gujrat’s villages left citizens frightened, India Today reported. Residents of Indian state Gujrat’s three villages claimed that they had found metal balls falling from the sky and the villagers reported it
By Geeta Pandey A 28-year-old Muslim woman's petition to a court, seeking to prevent her husband from taking another wife without her written consent, has put the spotlight on the practice of polygamy among Indian Muslims. Reshma, who uses only one name, also wants the Delhi High
New Delhi: India banned wheat exports, in a blow to countries reeling from supply shortages and soaring prices since Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The announcement drew sharp criticism from G7 industrialized nations' agriculture ministers meeting in Germany, who said that such measures "would worsen the crisis"
Uttar Pradesh: A Muslim woman was allegedly abducted from Etwa in Uttar Pradesh’s Siddharthnagar on April 25. Reports said she was kidnapped by Birendra Kumar when she went to the fields nearby her home during Ramzan Sehri. The accused, Kumar, is sending the victim’s picture with
Varanasi: A court banned large Muslim prayer gatherings in one of north India's highest-profile mosques, after a survey team found relics of the Hindu god Shiva and other Hindu symbols there, a lawyer involved in the case said. The judge at the court in Varanasi —
Islamabad: The General Secretariat of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has expressed deep concern over India’s attempts to redraw the electoral boundaries of the Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) altering the demographic structure of the territory and violating the rights of the