May 30, 2024

Patna: A massive fire broke out in a multi-story building on Patna's Fraser Road area on Wednesday evening and more than 20 fire engines were working to douse the blaze, officials said, adding all the residents had been rescued safely.…

Rio de Janeiro (Brazil): Olympic pole vault champion Thiago Braz will miss the Paris Olympic Games after breaching anti-doping regulations, the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) has announced. The 30-year-old Brazilian was provisionally…

Kullu (Himachal Pradesh): Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari on Wednesday said "this election is not about the future of the Congress and the BJP but it is about the future of the country and its people".…

Hyderabad: Hyderabad Police on Wednesday arrested a man who allegedly made a call about a bomb being planted in Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Praja Bhavan and Nampally Court. Shiva Kumar, a resident of Chikkadpally area in the city, was taken…

New Delhi: A 22-year-old woman was allegedly strangled to death by her husband in south Delhi over some dispute on Wednesday, police said, adding that a manhunt has been initiated to apprehend the accused. The deceased was identified as…

Agartala: Several northeastern states, including Tripura, Manipur, Mizoram, and Assam (southern part), remained cut off from the rest of the country by rail as railway tracks were waterlogged and damaged after landslides triggered by…

Bhubaneswar: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on his last leg of campaigning in Odisha on Wednesday, took a dig at the health condition of Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, to which the veteran Biju Janata Dal (BJD) leader said he is "perfectly…

New York: ISIS-K has called for a "Lone Wolf" attack on the India-Pakistan World Cup Cricket match here next month, a top police official has warned while putting security on high alert. In a video that has gone global, the terror group…

Paris: World No.1 Iga Swiatek came back from 0-3 down to save a match point at 5-3 in the decider before overcoming Naomi Osaka and pulling off a great escape into the third round at the French Open here on Wednesday. In a clash between…

Helsinki: Local authorities have ordered an evacuation of the village of Grindavik and the iconic Blue Lagoon resort in southwest Iceland's Reykjanes Peninsula after a volcano nearby erupted. The volcano located north of Grindavik…

Jerusalem: The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said that no official message has been received from the Brazilian government regarding the decision to recall the ambassador to Israel Frederico Meyer. Earlier on Wednesday, Brazil…

Sanaa, May 30 (IANS) Houthi group has said it shot down an MQ-9 Reaper drone over Yemen's central Marib. Yahya Sarea, the group's military spokesman, said on Wednesday in the statement broadcast by Houthi-run al-Masirah TV that "a…

Madrid; Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez held a meeting on Gaza with a delegation of the Ministerial Committee commissioned by the Joint Arab-Islamic Extraordinary Summit here, a day after Spain's official recognition of Palestinian…

Varanasi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in a letter to the first-time voters of Varanasi, has appealed to them to cast their votes in the seventh phase of the Lok Sabha election scheduled on June 1. Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers…

Kushinagar: A 14-year-old boy from Kushinagar district was detained on Wednesday for reportedly threatening to blow up the Ram Temple in Ayodhya, the police said. The boy has an intellectual disability and was undergoing treatment,…

Geneva: There is no indication that Israel will open the Rafah crossing soon, Palestine's Health Minister Majed Abu Ramadan said here. "This is totally in the hands of the Israelis," Abu Ramadan told a press briefing in Geneva on…

Minsk: Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has signed the document to suspend the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE), the media reported. The document was signed by Lukashenko on May 24, Xinhua news agency…

Khartoum: Chairman of Sudan's Transitional Sovereign Council Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan has held a phone talk with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, discussing the need to end the conflict in Sudan and enable unhindered humanitarian access…