Agencies

Amreli: An Asiatic lion was killed after being run over by a goods train in Gir forest area of Gujarat's Amreli district, an official said on Sunday.The incident took place around 9.30 pm on Saturday near Khadkala village in Gir...

Tehran: Iran's Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Saturday denied that the country's military adviser was killed in Yemen.Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh dismissed the recent remarks by a member of Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi's government as "false" concerning...

Forces holding out against the Taliban in northern Afghanistan say they have taken three districts close to the Panjshir valley where remnants of government forces and other militia groups have gathered, Reuters reported.Defence Minister General Bismillah Mohammadi, who...

Washington: Former US President Donald Trump told his supporters in Cullman, Alabama, that the recent developments in Afghanistan are a major failure of the current US administration's foreign policy and a great military defeat that demonstrates Washington's incompetence.Trump said...

Kabul: The Taliban said on Saturday that they are setting up a committee that will deal with the media.The trilateral committee will include a Taliban representative from the culture commission, a deputy head of the association on media protection...

Guwahati: Assam police have arrested 14 people for allegedly making pro-Taliban posts on social media. These posts purportedly expressed support for the hardline Islamic militant outfit’s takeover of Afghanistan, news agencies reported here on Saturday.Special DGP GP Singh tweeted,...

Moscow: Russia introduced sanctions against Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba as well as National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) Secretary Oleksiy Danilov, according to the decree published on the Official Portal of Legal Information."The list of individuals against whom...

Washington: US President Joe Biden has described in a phone conversation with Qatari Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani the evacuation of people from Afghanistan following the fall of Kabul as the “largest airlift of people in history,” the...

Washington/Kabul: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday praised Qatar for providing transit to US Air Force planes bringing US citizens and Afghan nationals from Kabul, even as the US military was forced to pause its evacuation flights...

Moscow: The International Space Station (ISS) has been placed to a higher altitude to prepare for the arrival of Russia’s “Challenge” movie’s filming crew arrival, a spokesperson for the Roscosmos state space corporation told Sputnik on Saturday.Initially, the orbit...