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Topic: Mosul

Global Pulse: Bloody protest as USA’s Israel embassy moves to Jerusalem

As America moves its embassy to Jerusalem it deals a deathly blow to 70 years of neutrality in Israel. 82 women march up the red carpet at Cannes to protest gender inequality at the festival. Iraq battles it out at the ballot box this time. 

BJP sees NaMo app ruckus as a ‘boon’ as it distracted opposition, got record downloads

Thanks to the controversy over data sharing, the opposition seems to have forgotten all about issues such as Mosul and Andhra, bringing some relief to the ruling party.

The lone survivor on how 39 Indians were killed in Iraq’s Mosul

In an excerpt from the most authoritative inside account of the abduction of 40 Indians in Iraq, the only survivor recalls the events as they happened.

They fooled us: Families of Indians killed in Iraq question why they weren’t told earlier

Over a dozen meetings with the external affairs minister, the families were assured that their missing kin were alive. But now, Swaraj has declared them dead.

A timeline of what happened with the 39 men in Iraq India ‘forgot about’

After three years of denying it, Sushma Swaraj announced Tuesday that the 39 Indians missing in Iraq since 2014 are dead.

Sushma Swaraj says bodies of 39 Indians abducted by ISIS in Iraq in 2015, found

As many as 40 Indians were originally abducted by terrorist organisation ISIS in June 2015 from Mosul in Iraq.

Fall of Mosul, new search brings some hope, uncertainty for families of missing Indians

While there is reason to believe that the men who went missing in Mosul after IS seized control of the city, Sushma Swaraj has maintained they are alive. As General V. K. Singh arrives in the Kurdish city of Erbil to coordinate a search mission, the families of the men remain in the lurch.  CHITLEEN K. SETHI 

Now Donald Trump Jr in trouble, Iraqi troops finally re-claim Mosul and top cardinal returns home to face sexual assault charges

DONALD TRUMP JR., PROMISED DAMAGING CLINTON INFO, MET WITH RUSSIAN LAWYER A bombshell New York Times report published Sunday revealed that Donald Trump Jr. agreed to meet a prominent Russian lawyer

On Camera

New labour codes make India’s workforce competitive with China—and build Viksit Bharat

By consolidating 29 laws into four codes, compliance is streamlined and regulations are simplified, improving “ease of doing business”. This is bound to improve investor confidence.

Vehicles, TVs, mobile phones—PM EAC report shows rural India is catching up with urban consumers

Rural ownership of motor vehicles jumped from 19 percent in 2011-2012 to 59 percent in 2023-2024, while urban rose from 40 percent to 68 percent during the same time period, study by two members of PM-EAC says.

General secrets from frozen peaks: A Kargil veteran reveals what politically correct writers left out

At the Jindal Literature Festival, Maj Gen (Retd) Lakhwinder Singh reveals secrets from 25 years ago, speaking about the decision that outwitted Musharraf and changed the course of the war. 

A tribute to Tejas. India’s delay culture is the real enemy in the skies

It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.