Indian embassy in Kyrgyzstan urges students to stay indoors amid mob attacks

New Delhi (IANS) The Indian Embassy in Kyrgyzstan, on Saturday, urged Indian students to remain indoors following a series of mob attacks on foreign students.

This advisory came in the wake of several attacks on students from India, Pakistan,…

Biden's security adviser to visit Saudi Arabia, Israel for talks

Washington (IANS/DPA) US President Joe Biden's security adviser Jake Sullivan is to travel to Saudi Arabia and Israel this weekend.

National Security Council Communications Director John Kirby announced in Washington on Friday that Sullivan…

?UN raises India's 2024 growth rate to 6.9 pc; remains world's fastest-growing large economy

United Nations (IANS) Indian economy's growth rate projection for this year has been raised by 0.7 per cent to 6.9 per cent from the forecast made in January by the UN and it retains its position as the world's fastest-growing large economy.

Slovakian PM Fico regains consciousness after long operation

Bratislava (IANS/DPA) Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico, who was critically injured in an assassination attempt on Wednesday, has regained consciousness after an operation lasting several hours, local media has reported.

However, neither…

Israel attacks Hezbollah strongholds in Lebanon

Tel Aviv (IANS) Israel has carried out airstrikes in northeastern Lebanon’s Baalbek, considered a stronghold of the Hezbollah group.

The area is around 100 km from the Israeli border. The airstrike was in retaliation to the Hezbollah attack…

Yemen's Houthis claim attacks on US warship, cargo vessel

Sanaa (IANS) Yemen's Houthi group claimed on Wednesday that they had attacked a U.S. warship and another cargo vessel in the Red Sea, said a statement by Houthi military spokesman.

The group carried out a military operation targeting the…

Russian forces repel massive missile attack on Sevastopol: Governor

Moscow (IANS) No casualties were reported in the area of Fedorovskaya Street of Sevastopol where a downed missile fell in a private sector, city Governor Mikhail Razvozhaev said in a telegram channel on Wednesday.

"Our military repelled a massive…

Death toll in Indonesia's lava flood rises to 44

Jakarta (IANS) The death toll due to cold lava flood in Indonesia's West Sumatra province has mounted to 44, a senior official of a local disaster agency said on Monday.

Although many big stones and waste materials from the flooding hampered…

Indonesia's Ibu volcano erupts, ash up to 5 km

Jakarta (IANS) The Ibu volcano on Halmahera Island in the eastern Indonesian province of North Maluku erupted on Monday at around 9 a.m. local time for about five minutes, throwing ash up to 5,000 metres above its peak, according to the country's…

17 hospitalised after shelling in Russia by Ukrainian forces

Moscow (IANS) Seventeen people, including a child, have been hospitalised following a massive shelling of Russia's border region of Belgorod by the Ukrainian forces, regional governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said on Sunday.

The shelling took…