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Unidentified men blow up girls’ school in NW Pakistan

Peshawar, May 9 (PTI) The only private school for girls in a remote village in restive North Waziristan was blown up and destroyed...

“We are making sure this doesn’t repeat”: Maldivian Foreign Minister over ministers derogatory remarks on PM Modi

New Delhi , May 9 (ANI): Maldivian Foreign Minister Moosa Zameer, who is on his first official visit to India, has distanced his government...

Heavy contingent of police deployed across Pakistan’s Punjab province to forestall protest by Khan’s party

Lahore, May 9 (PTI) A heavy contingent of police was deployed outside the residence of jailed former prime minister Imran Khan and the...

Panama’s president-elect vows to help fix canal water problems, build major train line

By Valentine Hilaire and Elida Moreno PANAMA CITY (Reuters) -Panama's president-elect, Jose Raul Mulino, said on Wednesday he will urge lawmakers to approve a law enabling the Panama Canal to build

‘Eunuch Maker’ ringleader jailed for penis, testicles amputations

By Sam Tobin LONDON (Reuters) - The ringleader of an extreme body modification conspiracy who cut off men's genitals and uploaded videos to his "Eunuch Maker" website was jailed for a minimum of 22

Ukraine’s popular former army chief Zaluzhnyi appointed ambassador to UK

(Reuters) - President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Thursday appointed former army chief Valeriy Zaluzhnyi, who led Ukraine's defence in the first two years of Moscow's full-scale invasion, as Kyiv's

In ‘dangerous world’, UK’s Cameron says NATO must be tougher, spend more

LONDON (Reuters) -British foreign minister David Cameron urged fellow NATO members on Thursday to meet pledges to spend 2% of GDP on defence, saying a tougher foreign policy is needed in a world more

Meta’s oversight board backs takedown of Australian voter fraud posts

By Byron Kaye SYDNEY (Reuters) - Meta's oversight board upheld a decision to remove two Facebook posts calling for Australians to vote multiple times in an indigenous rights referendum, but noted the

Foreign Secretary Kwatra meets Bangladesh PM Hasina, reviews bilateral ties with top officials

Dhaka, May 9 (PTI) Foreign Secretary Vinay Kwatra on Thursday called on Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and other top leaders here and...

Nigerian journalist detained over a week under cybercrime law, employer says

ABUJA (Reuters) - A Nigerian investigative journalist has spent more than a week in police detention without being brought to court for allegedly violating the country's cybercrime laws, his employer

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BJP goes ‘headless’ – Why Modi-Shah can’t decide Nadda’s successor

JP Nadda recently appointed in-charges and co-in-charges in 23 states. The problem is that he made these appointments five days after his term as party president was supposedly over.

Jobs, rural India likely to be focus of new Modi government’s first budget, says Goldman Sachs

The budget proposal for the financial year ending March 2025 will be presented on 23 July, the government said over the weekend.

India’s indigenous light tank ‘Zorawar’ unveiled, fastest product development by DRDO, L&T

Tank will go for desert trials later this yr in coordination with Army & eventually high-altitude areas of Ladakh to test its capabilities to operate in such terrain & extreme winters.

Modi’s new universe: the normal irritants of democracy & awkward chai with Rahul Gandhi

Changed reality for Modi govt in its 3rd innings is by no means rise of a new phenomenon. It's a return to old normal where even majorities had to routinely wrestle with storied million mutinies.