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October 12, 2025
International Purple Fest: Three landmark initiatives launched to promote accessibility for persons with disabilities
On the second day of the International Purple Fest Goa 2025, three transformative initiatives were unveiled to strengthen accessibility in listening, reading, and writing for persons with disabilities...
October 12, 2025
Indian Army to host UN Troop Contributing Countries’ Chiefs’ Conclave in New Delhi
The Indian Army is set to host the United Nations Troop Contributing Countries’ (UNTCC) Chiefs’ Conclave in New Delhi from October 14 to 16. The event will bring together senior military leadership from 32 nations that play a key role in UN peacekeeping op...
October 12, 2025
PM Modi invites Bihar BJP workers to join ‘Mera Booth Sabse Majboot’ campaign on Oct 15
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will interact with booth-level party workers from Bihar on October 15 under the ‘Mera Booth Sabse Majboot’ campaign, seeking their suggestions ahead of the upcoming Assembly elections. In a post on X on Sunday, PM Modi wrote, ...
October 10, 2025
India Calls for Integration of Indigenous Knowledge in Climate Action at IUCN Summit
Union Minister of State for Environment, Forest and Climate Change Kirti Vardhan Singh led India’s intervention at a high-level roundtable with IUCN President Razan Khalifa Al Mubarak during the IUC...
October 10, 2025
Japan ruling party outlook darkens after coalition partner quits
Japan's Komeito quit the ruling coalition on Friday, dealing a blow to new Liberal Democratic Party leader Sanae Takaichi's premiership bid and potentially to her party's grip on power in the world's fourth-largest economy. TAKAICHI'S PM BID JUST GOT HARDER ...
October 10, 2025
Details of the Gaza ceasefire agreement
Israel's government approved the Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal early on Friday, setting the clock ticking on the first phase of an agreement that aims to end the two-year-old war. The agreement covers only an initial stage, including handing over ho...
October 10, 2025
India Calls for Integration of Indigenous Knowledge in Climate Action at IUCN Summit
Union Minister of State for Environment, Forest and Climate Change Kirti Vardhan Singh led India’s intervention at a high-level roundtable with IUCN President Razan Khalifa Al Mubarak during the IUC...
October 10, 2025
Details of the Gaza ceasefire agreement
Israel's government approved the Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal early on Friday, setting the clock ticking on the first phase of an agreement that aims to end the two-year-old war. The agreement covers only an initial stage, including handing over ho...
October 10, 2025
Israeli cabinet ratifies Gaza ceasefire and hostage deal with Hamas
Israel's government ratified a ceasefire with the Palestinian militant group Hamas on Friday, clearing the way to suspend hostilities in Gaza within 24 hours and free Israeli hostages held there within 72 hours after that. The Israeli cabinet approved the dea...
October 8, 2025
EU’s plan to phase out Russian energy clears first political hurdle
European Union countries' ambassadors on Wednesday agreed to move ahead with the bloc's plan to end Russian oil and gas imports by 2028, EU diplomats said, clearing the law's first political hurdle be...
October 8, 2025
Italy’s Meloni says she has been reported to ICC for complicity in genocide
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on Tuesday that she and two of her ministers had been reported to the International Criminal Court for alleged complicity in genocide in connection with Israel's offensive in Gaza. Speaking in an interview with state...
October 6, 2025
Macron tasks his outgoing PM with holding last-ditch talks to end crisis
French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday tasked his outgoing prime minister, who had resigned earlier in the day, to hold last-ditch talks with other political parties to try and chart a path out of the crisis. Sebastien Lecornu had tendered his government'...
October 8, 2025
US targets Chinese companies over drone components used by Hamas, Houthis
The United States said on Wednesday it was adding 15 Chinese companies to its restricted trade list for facilitating the purchase of American electronic components found in drones operated by Iranian ...
October 8, 2025
Trump calls for jailing Democratic leaders as troops prepare for Chicago deployment
U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday called for jailing Chicago's mayor and the governor of Illinois, both Democrats, as his administration prepared to deploy military troops to the streets of the third-largest U.S. city. Neither Chicago Mayor Brandon Joh...
October 7, 2025
Trump’s threat to invoke Insurrection Act escalates showdown with Democratic cities
Donald Trump's threat to invoke a federal anti-insurrection law to expand his deployment of military personnel to U.S. cities has intensified his legal battle with Democratic-led cities over presidential authority, as hundreds of National Guard troops from Tex...
August 14, 2025
Ethiopian fossils reveal new species in human evolutionary lineage
Researchers have unearthed tooth fossils in Ethiopia dating to about 2.65 million years ago of a previously unknown species in the human evolutionary lineage, one that lived in the same time and place...
August 3, 2025
Trump reaffirms support for Morocco’s sovereignty over Western Sahara
U.S. President Donald Trump has reaffirmed support for Morocco's sovereignty over Western Sahara, saying a Moroccan autonomy plan for the territory was the sole solution to the disputed region, state news agency MAP said on Saturday. The long-frozen conflict ...
July 24, 2025
Indian medical team arrives in Dhaka to treat plane crash victims: MEA
A team of Indian medical specialists arrived in Dhaka on Wednesday night to assist in the treatment of victims injured in the July 21 fighter jet crash in Bangladesh’s capital. According to Randhir Jaiswal, the Official Spokesperson of India’s Ministry of...