The National Investigation Agency (NIA), with the assistance of local police, arrested three more accused on Tuesday in connection with the Visakhapatnam espionage case linked to Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). With these arrests, the total number of individuals taken into custody in the case has now risen to eight. The case involves the leakage of...
Jamui, Bihar: Tensions flared in Jhajha Baliyadih village of Jamui district, Bihar, after a communal clash broke out between Hindu and Muslim communities on Sunday. The violence reportedly began when a group attempted to recite the Hanuman Chalisa and raise religious slogans in front of a mosque, leading to an altercation. Police Action and Arrests...
High-Level Meeting Excludes Kyiv, Raising Concerns over Future of Conflict Riyadh/Moscow/Washington: Senior officials from the United States and Russia met in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday for the first high-level discussions since Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine three years ago. The talks, held at Riyadh’s Diriyah Palace, focused on exploring a potential resolution to the ongoing...
Ceasefire Fragile as Lebanon Rejects Israeli Troop Presence in Key Locations Beirut/Tel Aviv: Israel has continued withdrawing its forces from southern Lebanon in line with a ceasefire agreement with Hezbollah, but it has announced that troops will remain in five strategic locations, raising tensions and uncertainty over the fragile deal. The Israeli military confirmed on...
Jerusalem/Beirut: Israel’s security cabinet is set to convene to discuss the next phase of the ceasefire agreement with Hamas, even as far-right ministers push for renewed military operations in Gaza. Meanwhile, tensions continue to escalate across the region, with Israeli military actions reported in Lebanon and the occupied West Bank. In Lebanon, Israeli tanks advanced...
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the proposals put forward by the new US administration regarding Gaza, due to pressure from the Zionist Lobby, have no worth from our perspective. They are futile efforts. No one has the power to expel Gazans from their eternal homeland. Palestine belongs to Palestinians. Erdogan’s statement comes in response...
A significant meeting was held today at the Constitution Club by the well-known think tank, Institute of Objective Studies (IOS), to review the Waqf Act. The meeting was chaired by former Union Minister K. Rahman Khan and was attended by various intellectuals and Muslim leaders, including Professor Akhtarul Wasey, Dr. Zafar Mahmood, Advocate Yusuf Hatim...
The horrific rape and murder of a 31-year-old trainee doctor at Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College and Hospital have sparked nationwide outrage, echoing the sentiments felt during the 2012 Nirbhaya case. This latest tragedy has once again brought the issue of women’s safety and the effectiveness of the criminal justice system into sharp focus, with...
In a significant blow to Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, the chief of the Palestinian resistance group, was assassinated today in Tehran, Iran. Both the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and Hamas have confirmed the assassination, marking it as a pivotal event for the organization. According to the IRGC, Haniyeh was killed in a targeted attack on...
Early this morning, heavy landslides struck the hilly areas of Wayanad in Kerala, causing the deaths of at least 54 people. Officials confirmed that the landslides were caused by nonstop rain, with the state receiving a record 372 mm of rain in the last 24 hours. A massive rescue operation is underway with teams from...