Mumbai: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday termed his country’s partnership with India as one “made in heaven”, which…

New Delhi: India has successfully test-fired a long-range intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), the country’s Defense Ministry said yesterday,…

YANGON: Myanmar police yesterday arrested a prominent Rakhine Buddhist MP for allegedly provoking ethnic violence, state media and his party said, after a deadly riot highlighted simmering tensions in the troubled state, reports AFP. The arrest came after seven people were killed and a dozen injured…

Beijing: The spill from a sunken Iranian tanker off China’s east coast has spawned four oil slicks as authorities prepared to send robots to the wreckage to assess the environmental damage, reports AFP. The Sanchi, which was carrying 136,000 tonnes of light crude oil from Iran, sank in a ball…

SRINAGAR, India: Three female civilians and a soldier have been killed in cross-border firing by the Indian and Pakistani armies, officials said yesterday, taking the death toll along the frontier to 13 this week, reports AFP. Police in India said they had evacuated villagers living near the firing,…

UNITED NATIONS, United States: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday warned that any bid to address concerns about Iran should not jeopardize the hard-won nuclear deal after US President Donald Trump demanded changes to the accord, reports AFP. The United States is concerned the deal, thrashed…

WASHINGTON: Donald Trump unveiled the winners of his much-touted “Fake News Awards” late Wednesday, hours after a maverick senator from the…