Archive Detail
| Title | Description | Posted Date |
|---|---|---|
| X might be suspended in Brazil over comp | NY, Aug 30 : Elon Musk is stepping up his online attacks on a Brazilian Supreme Court judge threatening to suspend social media platform X, calling him “an evil dictator” in an ongoing feud between the two. | 30-Aug-2024 |
| 2 Deaths due to West Nile virus | New York, Aug 30 : Two deaths from West Nile virus have been reported in Wisconsin and one in Illinois — the first such deaths in those states this year, according to the state health departments. | 30-Aug-2024 |
| Over 60 million Americans under alerts a | Los Angeles, Aug 30 : A heat wave brought record-high temperatures to US Midwest states this week, with more than 60 million people included in alerts over the conditions. | 30-Aug-2024 |
| FBI releases photos of gun used in Trump | Washington, Aug 30 : The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has released photographs of the rifle and the backpack used by Thomas Crooks, who attempted to assassinate former US President Donald Trump at an election rally in Pennsylvania in July. | 30-Aug-2024 |
| Sunita Williams, Barry Wilmore to return | New Delhi, Aug 25 : NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore, who flew to the International Space Station (ISS) in June this year on board Boeing's faulty Starliner capsule, will return to Earth early next year, the space agency said in a release on Saturday. | 25-Aug-2024 |
| PM Modi invites Ukraine President to Ind | New Delhi, Aug 24 : Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday visited Ukraine on the first-ever trip to the country by an Indian PM and invited President Volodymyr Zelensky to visit India. PM Modi's invitation to Mr Zelensky came during their wide-ranging talks in Kyiv. At a media briefing, NDTV asked Mr Zelensky about PM Modi's invitation, to which he said that he would be "happy" to visit India. | 24-Aug-2024 |
| Israel airstrike targets Hezbollah arms | Tel Aviv, Aug 20 : Even as truce talks between Israel and Hamas are taking place, the former carried out an airstrike targeting a Hezbollah arms depot in Lebanon's eastern Bekaa Valley. | 20-Aug-2024 |
| Volcano erupts in Russia after 7.0 magni | Moscow, Aug 18 : Russia's Shiveluch volcano in the Kamchatka region erupted after a 7.0 magnitude earthquake that struck off the eastern coast of the country, local media reported on Sunday. | 18-Aug-2024 |
| Trump says he is 'much better looking' t | Washington, Aug 18 : Former US President Donald Trump has claimed at an election rally that he is "much better looking" than his Democratic rival for the White House, Vice-President Kamala Harris. | 18-Aug-2024 |
| 26/11 Mumbai attacks accused Tahawwur Ra | New York, Aug 18 : Pakistani-Canadian Tahawwur Rana faces the grim prospect of facing justice in India for the 26/11 terror attacks in Mumbai that killed around 175 people after a federal appeals court in the US quashed his appeal against extradition. | 18-Aug-2024 |
| Maldives at heart of India's Neighbourho | Male, Aug 11 : External Affairs Minister (EAM) S. Jaishankar said on Sunday the Maldives is a key partner to India in the Indian Ocean region and at the heart of its neighbourhood first policy. | 11-Aug-2024 |
| Israel not willing for hostage swap deal | Tel Aviv, Aug 10 : Israel's government is not keen on a hostage swap deal by releasing jailed Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti, as proposed by Hamas. | 10-Aug-2024 |
| Student leader Nahid who played major ro | Dhaka, Aug 9 : Nahid Islam, one of the main coordinators of the anti-quota protests that eventually led to the resignation of former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday, was on Friday given a key role in the newly-formed interim government in the country. | 09-Aug-2024 |
| 17 individuals from varied backgrounds t | New Delhi, Aug 9 : The newly formed interim government led by Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus comprises 17 members, who come from varied backgrounds ranging from former central bank's governor to ex-election commissioner to law professor to human rights activists and so on. | 09-Aug-2024 |
| Egypt, Qatar, US urge Israel, Hamas to r | Cairo, Aug 9 : The leaders of Egypt, Qatar, and the US have urged Israel and Hamas not to waste more time to finalise a ceasefire agreement and resume talks on August 15. | 09-Aug-2024 |
| UN chief Guterres 'against any racially- | United Nations, Aug 9 : UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is "against any racially-based attacks or racially-based incitement to violence", his Deputy Spokesperson Farhan Haq said on Thursday when asked about the attacks on Hindus and other minorities in Bangladesh. | 09-Aug-2024 |
| Awami League took Oath to bring back She | Dhaka, Aug 9 (TIWN): A gathering of Awami League leaders and supporters in Gopalganj district pledged to facilitate the return of Sheikh Hasina to Bangladesh. | 09-Aug-2024 |
| ‘Heartbroken’, says Sheikh Hasina’ | New Delhi, Aug 8 : Saima Wazed, daughter of former Bangladesh's Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, on Thursday said she is “heartbroken” as she cannot hug her mother after the unrest in her country. | 08-Aug-2024 |
| South Korea, US to cooperate in retrievi | Seoul, Aug 8 : South Korea and the United States have agreed to tighten their cooperation to excavate and repatriate the remains of Korean victims of Japan's wartime "forced mobilisation" when Korea was under Japan's colonial rule, the interior ministry said on Thursday. | 08-Aug-2024 |
| Pakistan planning to equip Iran with Sha | Jerusalem, Aug 8 : In what could raise serious concerns in Tel Aviv and faraway Washington, certain reports have claimed that Pakistan plans to supply Tehran with its Shaheen-III medium-range ballistic missiles if Iran's ongoing conflict with Israel escalates. | 08-Aug-2024 |
| Has diplomacy any future in resolving th | New Delhi, Aug 8 : Amid the Middle East's gradual slide into a wider conflict, three incidents are telling - a ceasefire proposal announced by the leader of a superpower is gradually undermined and soon vanishes from discourse, a ceasefire negotiator is assassinated in a provocative gambit, and a hardliner is elevated to replace him. Does diplomacy have a future in resolving conflict in the region? | 07-Aug-2024 |
| Kamala Harris picks Minnesota Governor T | Washington, Aug 7 : US Vice-President Kamala Harris has picked Tim Walz, the Democratic Governor of Minnesota, as her running mate, according to multiple media reports. | 06-Aug-2024 |
| India, US working to 'shape the future', | Washington, Aug 7 : US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin in a joint Op-ed have described the Biden administration's Indo-Pacific strategy as a latticework of bilateral and multilateral ties in which the US and India are "investing together across sectors that will shape the future". | 06-Aug-2024 |
| Student leaders issue appeal, demand 'ne | New Delhi, Aug 6 : Amid ongoing protests in Bangladesh, student movement leaders Nahid Islam, Asif Mahmood, and Abu Bakar Majumdar released a video message on Tuesday, demanding that Nobel laureate economist Muhammad Yunus be given the role of advisor to the interim government. | 06-Aug-2024 |
| Minorities, their businesses, temples un | New Delhi, Aug 6 : Making a suo-moto statement in the Rajya Sabha on the ongoing situation in Bangladesh, External Affairs Minister (EAM) S. Jaishankar on Tuesday expressed India's deep concern over the attacks on minorities, their businesses, and temples at "multiple locations" in the neighbouring country. | 06-Aug-2024 |
| Iran says assassination of Hamas chief u | Tehran, Aug 6 : Iran's Acting Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani said that Israel's assassination of Hamas Politburo Chief Ismail Haniyeh had undermined regional and international stability and security. | 06-Aug-2024 |
| Bangladesh President orders immediate re | New Delhi, Aug 5 : President Mohammed Shahabuddin chaired a meeting at the Bangabhaban in Dhaka to discuss the formation of an interim government with the chiefs of the three armed forces, leaders of various political parties, and civil society representatives. | 06-Aug-2024 |
| UK calls for UN-led probe into B'desh cr | London, Aug 6 : The UK government called for a United Nations-led probe into the unrest that led to the resignation of former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. | 06-Aug-2024 |
| Sheikh Hasina Resigns : Bangladesh Army | NEW DELHI, Aug 5 (TIWN): Bangladesh Army chief General Waker-Us-Zaman has taken over the reins of the interim government. This comes a little over a month after he was appointed the country's army chief. | 05-Aug-2024 |
| Sheikh Hasina to Leave for London Via In | NEW DELHI, Aug 5 (TIWN): News 18 reported that Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasia who resigned from post is on way to London via India. | 05-Aug-2024 |
| Death toll in Israeli airstrike in Gaza | Gaza, Aug 4 : At least 15 Palestinians were killed and dozens of others injured by an Israeli airstrike on a school in the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood in Gaza City, Hamas said. | 03-Aug-2024 |
| TikTok's practices endangered children's | New York, Aug 4 : The US government has sued Chinese-owned social media giant TikTok, alleging that it endangered the safety of children by illegally collecting information from them and allowing them to share messages and videos with adults. | 03-Aug-2024 |
| Hamas leader assassination: Persian prov | New Delhi, Aug 1 : His first full formal day as Iran's President couldn't have started on a worse note for Masoud Pezeshkian. Hours before daylight, came the shock news of the assassination of Hamas political bureau chief Ismail Haniyeh, a guest at his inauguration, exacerbating what is already a toxic atmosphere in the Middle East. | 01-Aug-2024 |
| US Fed keeps interest rates unchanged, h | Washington, Aug 1 : The US Federal Reserve has left interest rates unchanged at a 22-year high of 5.25 per cent to 5.5 per cent, as inflation continues to cool, hinting that a rate cut might come as soon as September. | 01-Aug-2024 |
| Iran's supreme leader orders attack on I | Tehran, Aug 1 : Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has issued an order for Iran to strike Israel directly, in retaliation for the killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, a media report said, citing three unnamed Iranian officials. | 01-Aug-2024 |
| 'Is she Indian or Black?' Trump question | Chicago, Aug 1 : Former US President Donald Trump has triggered a controversy by raising questions on the racial identity of his Democratic rival Kamala Harris during a convention of the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) in Chicago. | 01-Aug-2024 |
| Persian provocation: Hamas leader target | New Delhi, Aug 1 : Masoud Pezeshkian's first full formal day as Iran's President couldn't have started on a worse note. Hours before the day dawned, Hamas political bureau chief Ismail Haniyeh, a guest at his inauguration, was assassinated in Tehran, exacerbating what is already a toxic situation in the Middle East. | 01-Aug-2024 |