Daily Archives: October 3, 2024
Swachh Bharat Mission becoming new path to prosperity: Modi on 10th anniversary
NEW DELHI: Hailing the Swachh Bharat Mission as the largest and most successful people’s movement of the 21st century, Prime Minister Narendra...
WW-II bomb goes off at Japanese airport
TOKYO: An unexploded US bomb from World War-II that had been buried at a Japanese airport exploded Wednesday, causing a large crater...
2 dead, 70 hurt as typhoon nears Taiwan
TAIPAI: An approaching typhoon bringing strong winds and torrential rainfall to Taiwan killed two people and injured dozens of others over the...
Tit-for-tat violence must stop, says UN chief
WASHINGTON: United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday condemned Iran’s missile attack on Israel, telling the Security Council the “deadly cycle of...
Singapore court jails Indian-origin ex-minister to 12 months in graft case
SINGAPORE: Singapore's Indian-origin former transport minister S Iswaran has been sentenced to 12 months jail on Thursday by the High Court for...
Bangladesh recalls envoy from India in major diplomatic reshuffle
DHAKA: Bangladesh has withdrawn its High Commissioner from India, Mustafizur Rahman, indicating a ‘foreign policy’ re-set from the times of Prime Minister Shiekh Hasina’s...
Nasrallah’s son-in-law killed in Israeli airstrike in Syria: Monitor
DAMASCUS: Two Lebanese nationals, including Hassan Jafar Qasir, the son-in-law of late Hezbollah leader, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, have been killed in an...