Pakistan & Bangladesh among 75 countries hit by US immigrant visa pause. Check full listThe US has announced a temporary pause on issuing immigrant visas to nationals of 75 countries, including Pakistan, as part of a policy rev...
15 Jan, 2026, 09.14 AM IST
Who is Albania’s ‘pregnant’ AI minister Diella, appointed last month to fight corruption?Albania AI Minister Pregnant: Albania's Prime Minister Edi Rama announced their AI minister, Diella, is "pregnant" with 83 digital assistan...
27 Oct, 2025, 01.27 PM IST
Yes, AI minister, more of your lot in governmentSophia the AI robot gained citizenship. Now AI threatens white-collar jobs. Albania appointed Diella, an AI minister, to fight corruption. ...
20 Sep, 2025, 10.54 PM IST
Foreigners evacuated by air, land and sea as Israel-Iran conflict worsensAmid escalating conflict between Israel and Iran, countries are scrambling to evacuate their citizens by air, land, and sea. With airspace ...
20 Jun, 2025, 07.26 AM IST
UK may set up migrant 'return hubs' in other countries for rejected asylum seekersPrime Minister Kier Starmer is exploring "return hubs" in other countries for rejected UK asylum seekers awaiting deportation, calling it a...
16 May, 2025, 10.15 AM IST
59 dead, more than 150 injured in nightclub fire in North MacedoniaA devastating fire at Club Pulse in Kocani, North Macedonia, resulted in the deaths of 59 people and left 155 injured. The blaze, likely ca...
16 Mar, 2025, 06.35 PM IST
After Elon Musk-Giorgia Meloni 'bonhomie', tech mogul jumps into Italy on immigration, faces rebukeElon Musk faced a rebuke from Italian President Sergio Mattarella for weighing in on Italy’s immigration debate in a series of posts on X, ...
14 Nov, 2024, 03.36 PM IST
Italy's president sharply rebukes Elon Musk over comments on X about migration court rulingsThe tweets concerned a Rome court's refusal to rule on a formal request to detain seven migrants rescued at sea and transferred to Albania ...
13 Nov, 2024, 06.13 PM IST
UAE updates visa-on-arrival for 87 countries; is India included?The UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs updated its visa exemption policy, allowing citizens from 87 countries to enter without a pre-entry vis...
19 Mar, 2024, 11.27 AM IST
Turkish crypto boss sentenced to 11,196 years in jailA disgraced Turkish crypto founder who fled to Albania and his two brothers have been sentenced to 11,196 years in jail each, the Anadolu s...
08 Sep, 2023, 03.18 PM IST
Ukraine says fighting 'deadlocked' ahead of visit by UN chiefU.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan later on Thu...
18 Aug, 2022, 11.41 AM IST
Smartkarma research: The Fed has become the bull in a China shopFed officials are eager to see inflation pressures diminish soon so that they will not have to raise interest rates above 4% or 5%. But the...
19 Jul, 2022, 08.55 PM IST
With all eyes on Ukraine, Putin to send his envoy to BalkansSerbia's pro-government media said Monday Nikolai Patrushev, the powerful secretary of the Kremlin's Security Council, is due to arrive in ...
21 Feb, 2022, 07.56 PM IST
Missionaries of Charity completed 71 years of charity work among poor this yearThe Mother and her organisation which ran orphanages, homes for the dying and lepers, shot into prominence after she won the Ramon Magsasay...
27 Dec, 2021, 10.09 PM IST
Finance watchdog 'grey lists' Turkey in threat to investmentThe Financial Action Task Force (FATF), set up by the G7 group of advanced economies to protect the global financial system, also put Mali ...
21 Oct, 2021, 11.34 PM IST
China criticised the Afghan war. Now it worries about the withdrawal.While China has not called on President Joe Biden to reverse the military withdrawal he ordered, statements by senior officials made it cle...
16 Jul, 2021, 01.41 PM IST
The coronavirus pandemic is accelerating coal’s demiseIn much of the world coal power is currently more expensive than gas and renewables, which explains why its share in the electricity mix ha...
29 Apr, 2020, 08.07 AM IST