Union External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Wednesday that terrorism has been brought on the global agenda because of the efforts of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Union government. Jaishankar was speaking in the Rajya Sabha, commencing the debate on Operation Sindoor. “In the last decade, we have been able to put terrorism on…
New Delhi: India’s flagship online consumer grievance platform, e-daakhil, has resolved less than a quarter of the complaints it has received since launch, a parliamentary panel said in a report Tuesday, flagging the lack of oversight and accountability despite the government’s push for digital redressal. Only 23% of the total complaints filed through the platform…
An encounter erupted along the Line of Control (LoC) in the Poonch sector of Jammu and Kashmir after Indian Army personnel spotted suspicious movement near the border fence, the Army’s White Knight Corps said on Wednesday. Officials said that troops atg the LoC spotted two individuals under suspicious circumstances in the general area of the…
Gujarat ATS has arrested a 30-year-old woman, Sama Parveen, from Bengaluru for her links to Al Qaeda. This follows the earlier arrest of three terrorists, according to DIG Sunil Joshi. Source link
Workers at the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant in northeast Japan were evacuated Wednesday after an 8.7-magnitude earthquake off Russia’s far east triggered tsunami warnings around the Pacific. “We have evacuated all workers and employees” at the Fukushima Daiichi plant — which went into meltdown after being hit by a tsunami in 2011 — a spokeswoman…
Tsunami alert: A magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck off Russia’s Far Eastern Kamchatka Peninsula on Wednesday, generating a tsunami of up to 4 metres (13 feet), damaging buildings and prompting warnings and evacuations that stretched across the Pacific Ocean. Several people were injured in the remote Russian region, while much of Japan’s eastern seaboard – devastated…
A powerful 8.7-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Russia’s Far Eastern Kamchatka Peninsula on Wednesday, triggering a tsunami with waves reaching up to 4 meters (13 feet). The quake led to building damage and forced evacuations in the affected areas. “Today’s earthquake was serious and the strongest in decades of tremors,” Kamchatka Governor Vladimir…
Japan’s meteorological agency said on Tuesday that a powerful earthquake hit near Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula and issued a tsunami advisory for Japan. The agency said the quake registered a preliminary magnitude of 8.0. It issued an advisory for a tsunami of up to 1 metre along the Pacific coast of Japan. The quake was about…
A zoo in the German city of Nuremberg announced that it had killed 12 baboons on Tuesday despite protests from animal rights activists. The Tiergarten Nürnberg Zoo first announced plans to kill baboons it didn’t have space for in February 2024. It had said that it examined offers to take in some of the animals…
US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday (July 29) that India could face tariff rates as high as 25% on its exports to the United States, but emphasised that a final decision had not yet been made. The remarks come as the two countries work toward resolving longstanding trade disagreements. “I think so,” Trump responded…
