Kathmandu: Nepal Army would mobilise around 80,000 troops for the March 5 general elections, a top army official said on Friday. Almost all of the ground forces, more than 90 per cent of the total force, will be mobilised to provide security during the general election, Nepal Army spokesman Brig General Rajaram Basnet said. President…
Oklahoma: Near the equator, the Sun hurries below the horizon in a matter of minutes. Darkness seeps from the surrounding forest. Nearly 10,000 years ago, at the base of a mountain in Africa, people’s shadows stretched up the wall of a natural overhang of stone. They’re lit by a ferocious fire that’s been burning for…
Dhaka: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Wednesday represented India at the funeral of former prime minister Khaleda Zia and handed over to Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) leader Tarique Rahman a letter of condolences from Prime Minister Narendra Modi. In his meeting with Rahman, a front-runner for prime ministership in the February 12 parliamentary polls,…
Beijing: The ambassadors of the Quad nations, comprising the US, India, Australia and Japan, held a rare publicised meeting in Beijing. The meeting at the US Embassy in Beijing took place on December 19, according to the Japanese Embassy’s post on X. “The Quad (Quadrilateral Security Dialogue) is a force for good working to maintain a…
Colombo: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Sri Lanka in 2025 marked an upswing in bilateral ties, as the island nation showed signs of recovery from the economic stress. During the April visit, military cooperation between India and Sri Lanka was also institutionalised, with PM Modi asserting that the security of both nations is interlinked…
Lima: A head-on collision between two trains on the line that services Peru’s Machu Picchu killed one person and injured at least 40 others, authorities said, updating an earlier toll. The deceased was the conductor of one of the two trains, according to the prosecutor’s office in Cusco, the city closest to the famous Inca…
Kyiv: Ukraine said Tuesday there was no “plausible” evidence it launched a drone attack on one of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s residences, accusing Moscow of peddling falsehoods to manipulate talks on ending the war. Ukraine’s allies have expressed scepticism about Russia’s claim. A French presidential source said the Kremlin’s statements were not backed “by any…
United Nations: For the first time,the UN chief has issued his New Year’s message for the year 2026 in Hindi, among other languages, calling on world leaders today to invest in development, not destruction. Antonio Guterres’ New Year message has been issued in 11 languages, including in the six official UN languages of Arabic, Chinese,…
Dhaka: Khaleda Zia, the first woman prime minister of Bangladesh and the second in the Muslim world, dominated the country’s politics for decades alongside her arch-rival Sheikh Hasina. Zia, the longtime chief of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and a three-time prime minister, died early Tuesday in Dhaka after a prolonged illness. She was 80….
Dhaka: Former Bangladesh prime minister and long-time Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia died early Tuesday while undergoing medical treatment in Dhaka, her party confirmed. She was 80. Khaleda Zia passed away at 6 am at the capital’s Apollo Hospital, according to A.K.M. Wahiduzzaman, BNP’s ICT Affairs Secretary and head of its Online…
