Iran has released one Danish and two Austrian citizens who were imprisoned in the country, Vienna and Copenhagen have said, thanking Oman and Belgium for their help in getting the trio freed. Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg said on Friday that he was “very relieved” that Kamran Ghaderi and Massud Mossaheb were being brought home…
A top White House official on Friday will offer to maintain current nuclear weapons limits with Russia, while making the case for putting rising power China at the center of future arms control efforts. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan will deliver a speech at the annual National Arms Control Association meeting in Washington outlining the…
Students turned their backs in front of Erdogan-appointed rector’s office for 880th day — a routine protest that has been going on since January 2021. Students and academics protested at Turkey’s top university Friday, defying a ban on the near 900-day strike imposed after President Recip Tayyip Erdogan was re-elected for five more years. They turned their backs…
Pakistan will release 200 Indian fishermen and three civilian prisoners as a humanitarian gesture, foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari announced on Friday. Last month, Pakistani authorities released 198 Indian fishermen, languishing in a prison in Karachi after being arrested for allegedly fishing illegally in the country’s waters. They were handed over to India at the Wagah…
At least 45 bags with human remains were found in a ravine in the western Mexican state of Jalisco during a search for eight people reported missing last week, local authorities said Thursday. Forty-five bags with human remains have been extracted that belong to both male and female people,” the state prosecutor’s office said in a statement….
A rare coalition of centrist Democrats and Republicans came together on Wednesday in the United States (US) House of Representatives to pass the Fiscal Responsibility Act 2023, a legislation that suspends the debt ceiling limit for two years in exchange for spending cuts in the federal budget. The passage of the bill, a product of…
A man died of suspected drug overdose in Sherewal village of Sidhwan Bet, police said on Thursday. The Sidhwan Bet police lodged an FIR against five accused, including three women, for allegedly injecting overdose of drugs to him. It is the third death due to suspected drug overdose in the district in the past 13…
Plumes of toxic smoke engulfed the entire area after a massive fire broke out at a dyeing unit on Tajpur Road on Thursday, destroying machinery and raw material worth crores of rupees. The fire broke out at the storage area of the Hinglaj Processors in Jagdish Pura and spread to the whole building. Due to…
Notorious criminal Mohammad Ashraf Khan was detained under the Public Safety Act and sent to jail in Rajouri district. He had nine criminal cases against him. The police on Thursday detained a notorious criminal under the Public Safety Act and sent him to jail in Rajouri district, said officials. The police on Thursday detained a notorious criminal…
PATNA Bihar’s health department has issued final show cause notice to 62 absentee doctors in Patna division, comprising six districts, officials familiar with the development said on Thursday. Among the 62 doctors put on notice are three who have been absent since August 2016, one from October 2017, two from 2018, six from 2019, 21…
