Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba. | Photo Credit: REUTERS Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba has said he is seeking “common ground” in talks this week with his Chinese counterpart on ending his country’s war with Russia. Mr. Kuleba met on July 24 with Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Guangzhou, a major commercial and manufacturing centre…
The Border Security Force (BSF) has seized four kilograms of heroin worth around Rs 20 crore from a farm near the India-Pakistan border in Anupgarh district in Rajasthan, police told PTI on Wednesday. According to Anil Kumar, who is a local Station House Officer (SHI), BSF jawans reportedly seized six packets containing heroin late Tuesday…
The Madhya Pradesh forest department has refused to provide information under the Right to Information (RTI) Act on the management of cheetahs brought from Africa and their cubs born in India, PTI reported. In response to a request filed by wildlife activist Ajay Dubey, the department cited Section 8(1)(a) of RTI Act, which allows a…
Image for representational purposes only. The SCO member states have a long history of effective cooperation in counter-terrorism | Photo Credit: Reuters Security officials from the member states of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) held the first joint anti-terrorism drill in China focussing on live drills and specialised operations such as “the eradication of terrorist…
Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan. | Photo Credit: AP Pakistan’s jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan has refused to undergo polygraph and voice matching tests as part of an investigation by Lahore police in connection with a dozen cases related to the unprecedented May 9 riots last year. A 12-member forensic team reached Adiala…
The tourism sector in Jammu and Kashmir has witnessed unprecedented growth after the abrogation of Article 370. A total of 1.08 crore tourists visited the Union Territory (UT) in the past six months alone, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) informed the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday, reported ANI. Citing a report availed to MHA by…
A colourised transmission electron micrograph of mpox particles (red) found within an infected cell (blue), cultured in the laboratory, captured, and colour-enhanced. | Photo Credit: NIAID/AP Scars from the mpox pustules are still visible on 7-year old Grace Kabuo’s face, as well as on a handful of her playmates at a camp for displaced people…
Kim Beom-su, also known as Brian Kim, the founder of South Korean tech giant Kakao Corp., leaving a courtroom after a warrant hearing at the Seoul Southern District Court. | Photo Credit: AP On July 23, South Korean authorities arrested Kim Beom-su, the billionaire founder of tech giant Kakao Corp, on accusations of stock manipulation…
A passenger plane carrying 19 people crashed during takeoff in Kathmandu on Wednesday with the pilot surviving but “many” others aboard dead, police in the Nepali capital told AFP. The Saurya Airlines flight was carrying two crew and 17 of the company’s staff members for a test flight, Nepali police spokesman Dan Bahadur Karki told…
Toyota president Akio Toyoda was one of the executives banned from entering Russia. File. | Photo Credit: AFP Russia has banned the head of Toyota and 12 other senior Japanese business figures from entering the country, prompting a protest by Tokyo on July 24. The list published by Russia’s foreign ministry on Tuesday includes Toyota…
