New Delhi’ 15 Feb:: President Droupadi Murmu on Saturday expressed her condolences over the tragic deaths of Mahakumbh devotees in a road accident on the Mirzapur Highway in Uttar Pradesh’s Prayagraj. Taking to social media platform X, the President wrote, “The news of the death of many people in a …

15-02-2025 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: In a worrying move, the Indian tax authorities revoked the non-profit status of two independent media organizations; the journalist association The Reporters’ Collective (TRC) and the news site The File. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns this offensive against the independent press and calls on the …

14-02-2025 JOHANNESBURG: South Africa’s G20 presidency was meant to be an opportunity to get rich, powerful nations to pay attention to poorer countries’ concerns such as burgeoning inequality, crippling sovereign debt and a lack of progress in the fight against climate change but the richest, most powerful member, the United …

14-02-2025 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI/ MUMBAI: India’s retail inflation slowed to a five-month low in January as food price inflation eased, boosting the odds of another rate cut in the South Asian economy where growth is slowing amid the escalating threat of a global trade war. Annual retail …

14-02-2025 JERUSALEM/ BEIRTU: Israel is seeking another extension of the deadline for the withdrawal of its troops from southern Lebanon, a Western diplomatic source says, a request that is likely to raise new concerns in a country with a history of Israeli occupation. Israeli forces had been due to pull …

14-02-2025 PARIS/ AMSTERDAM: For nearly a month the French territory of Amsterdam Island in the southern Indian Ocean has been engulfed in flames. Located about halfway between Australia, Antarctica and Madagascar, the island has seen burning across more than 55% of its 54sq km area. Amsterdam Island doesn’t have a …

14-02-2025 GAZA STRIP: The Gaza ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas has looked shaky since it came into force on 19 January but now looks the closest yet to totally falling apart. A senior Egyptian source told media that regional mediators Egypt and Qatar were “intensifying their diplomatic efforts in …

14-02-2025 GENEVA: Programs to tackle HIV, polio, mpox and bird flu have been affected by the freeze on tens of billions of dollars of overseas aid from the US, says the head of the World Health Organization (WHO). US President Donald Trump has taken steps to close the United States …

14-02-2025 WASHINGTON/ MOSCOW: US President Donald Trump has said he had a “lengthy and highly productive” phone call with Vladimir Putin on Wednesday in which the leaders agreed to begin negotiations to end the war in Ukraine. In a post on his Truth Social platform, Trump said he and the …

14-02-2025 SYDNEY: Two Australian nurses have been suspended after a video appeared to show them threatening to kill Israeli patients and boasting about refusing to treat them. The man and woman both employees at a Sydney hospital are now being investigated by police, officials in New South Wales (NSW) said. …