August 4, 2024

NEW DELHI: Agriculture has been a key focus area of India's development strategy, achieving a remarkable growth rate of 5 percent in the farm sector over the seven years from 2016-17 to 2022-23, according to Niti Aayog member Ramesh Chand.…

Dhaka: The political impasse continues in Bangladesh with student leaders turning down Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s offer of talks. The Chief of Army Staff (CAS) discussed troop deployment with officers at the Army headquarters and…

Beirut: The US embassy in Lebanon has urged its citizens to leave the country on "any ticket available" amid escalating fears of an all-out war between Israel and Hezbollah and a potential broader regional conflict. Despite ongoing flight…

TEHRAN: Iran's Revolutionary Guards said Saturday that Israel killed Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh using a "short-range projectile" launched from outside of his accommodation in Tehran. "This terrorist operation was carried out by…

BEIJING: Landslides in southwest China destroyed homes and caused a highway bridge to collapse on Saturday, killing at least two people and leaving around 17 others missing, authorities said. State broadcaster CCTV said "local mountain…

MOSCOW: President Vladimir Putin strode along the red carpet between two rows of rifle-toting honor guards and warmly greeted intelligence operatives freed in the biggest prisoner swap with the West since the Cold War. The Motherland…

MANILA: A 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of the southern Philippines on Saturday, but no tsunami warning was issued and there were no immediate reports of damage, said the United States Geological Survey. The shallow quake…