Beijing: China has been operating a spy base in Cuba since at least 2019 as part of its global efforts to improve intelligence gathering, according to a US official from the Biden administration. The US intelligence community has long been aware of China's spying activities in
Tunisia: European leaders visiting Tunisia on Sunday held out the promise of more than 1 billion euros in financial aid to rescue its teetering economy and better police its borders, to restore stability to the North African country — and to stem migration from its
New Delhi: Indian citizens have suffered violations of their personal data as their private information was available on the messaging platform Telegram, including the details of high-profile legislators of the country, with Trinamool Congress claiming that the Modi government is unaware of this big data
Beijing; China has asked the last Indian reporter in Beijing from news agency PTI to leave, Bloomberg reported on Monday. Four reporters from Indian media outlets were based in China earlier this year. However, in April, China had barred state-run Prasar Bharati’s reporter Anshuman Mishra and
London: Former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has decided to resign from his position as a Member of Parliament (MP). The decision follows an investigation by the House of Commons' privileges committee regarding allegations that he misled Parliament about parties held during the COVID-19 lockdown in
Moscow: Russia will start deploying tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus after special storage facilities are made ready on July 7 and 8, President Vladimir Putin said, Moscow’s first move of such warheads outside Russia since the fall of the Soviet Union. Putin announced in March he
United Nations: The UN Head of Peacekeeping Operations, Jean-Pierre Lacroix, paid tributes to fallen “blue helmets” and acknowledged Pakistan’s contribution to the world body’s peacekeeping operations in hotspots around the world. Under Secretary-General Lacroix was speaking at a photographic exhibition “Tribute to Fallen Peacekeepers & Pakistan’s
Imphal: Ten like-minded Indian political parties have condemned the stoic silence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the ongoing violence in Manipur state. The ten like-minded political parties are INC (Indian National Congress), CPI (Communist Party of India), CPI-M (Communist Party of India-Marxist), JD-U (Janata Dal
London: India's foreign minister Dr Subrahmanyam Jaishankar has attacked Canada for allowing a float in a pro-Khalistan Sikh parade in the Canadian city of Brampton depicting the 1984 assassination of Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi by her Sikh bodyguards. Video circulated by Sikh activists showed a
New Delhi: A study supported by the Indian Council of Medical Research has estimated that 101.3 million people in the country, or 11.4% of the population, are likely to have diabetes. It also said that 136 million people in India, or 15.3% of the population, could