Singapore, 15/4: Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on Monday said he will step down on May 15 and announced that he will be succeeded by his deputy Lawrence Wong. The date for the handover was announced in a statement from the Prime Minister’s Office. In a Facebook post, Lee, 72, said leadership transition is…
Iran, 15/4: Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian has said that Tehran will allow Indian authorities to meet 17 Indian crew members of a cargo vessel that was seized by the Iranian military near the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday. Amir-Abdollahian conveyed this to External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar during a telephonic conversation on Sunday, according…
New Delhi, 15/4:BRS leader K Kavitha on Monday was sent to judicial custody till April 23 in connection to the Delhi excise policy case. The daughter of former Telangana chief minister K Chandrashekar Rao was arrested from Tihar Jail, where she was lodged after her arrest by the Enforcement Directorate (ED). CBI officials had recently…
New Delhi, 14/4: In a big political development, the Congress on Sunday has announced its next list of candidates for 75 Assembly seats in Odisha. The party has fielded Niranjan Patnaik for Bhandaripokhari seat while Jaydev Jena has been named as the party candidate for the for Anandapur constituency.
Ottawa, 14/4: A 24-year-old Indian man who went to Canada in 2022 to pursue higher education was shot dead in his car in Vancouver city, police said on Sunday. The Vancouver Police Department in a press release said officers were called to the scene around 11 pm on April 12 after residents heard the sound…
New Delhi, 14/4: Air India on Sunday decided to temporarily suspend flights to Tel Aviv amid escalating tensions between Israel and Iran. An official said the direct flights between Delhi and Tel Aviv will be suspended for now.
Solapur, 14/4: Nationalist Congress Party (SP) supremo Sharad Pawar on Sunday said there was no difference between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin while accusing the former of slowly destroying democracy in the country. Pawar was speaking to reporters at Akluj in Solapur district, where he visited the residence of former deputy…
New Delhi, 14/4: The Congress on Sunday panned the BJP’s manifesto as a “jumla patra” that fails to mention inflation and unemployment. The grand old party accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of failing to fulfil previous promises over the past ten years. The party questioned the status of commitments made on job creation, doubling farmers’…
Jerusalem, 14/4: : Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed on Sunday his country would achieve victory after the military said it shot down almost all the more than 300 drones and missiles launched by Iran in a sharp escalation oTehran’s attacks late on Saturday, launched after a suspected Israeli air strike on its embassy compound…
Washington, 14/4: Israel on Saturday requested that the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) hold an emergency meeting to condemn Iran’s attack on Israel and designate the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps a terrorist organisation. The Iranian attack is a serious threat to global peace and security, and I expect the Council to use every means to…
