68 Indians among 900 Hajj pilgrims who have lost their lives in Mecca, says Saudi diplomatFriends and family are searching for missing hajj pilgrims as the death toll from this year's pilgrimage, carried out in extreme heat, has ...
20 Jun, 2024, 03.45 PM IST
Decorated ex-Indian Army officer, UN diplomat Siddharth Chatterjee makes waves in China with his fitness regimeChatterjee's four-and-a-half-minute documentary titled "Breathing for Good Health" starts with the recitation of the ancient Sanskrit symbo...
16 Apr, 2024, 10.55 AM IST
Iran displays missile capability amid Gaza warIran's ballistic missile programme, which has advanced over the past 40 years despite sanctions, has brought Western attention to Iran's mi...
19 Jan, 2024, 07.01 PM IST
Students defy Iran protest ultimatum, unrest enters more dangerous phaseVideos from universities in some other cities also showed Basij forces opening fire at students. Across the country, security forces tried ...
30 Oct, 2022, 07.46 PM IST
Iran protests swell, as Guards chief says stay homeSecurity forces had targeted a hospital and a student dormitory overnight, a rights group said, as the protest movement that flared over Am...
29 Oct, 2022, 09.19 PM IST
Gunmen attack major Shiite holy site in Iran, killing 15State TV blamed the attack on "takfiris," a term that refers to Sunni Muslim extremists who have targeted the country's Shiite majority in ...
27 Oct, 2022, 07.30 AM IST
'Guns, Tanks, Mullahs must go': Women without hijabs protest for fifth week against government in IranYoung women across the country have been at the forefront of the biggest wave of street protests seen in the country for years. "Guns, tank...
16 Oct, 2022, 06.08 PM IST
Month of anger in Iran over woman's death in hijab arrestMahsa Amini's death in hospital on September 16, three days after her arrest, sparked the biggest protests in Iran in years.
16 Oct, 2022, 08.22 AM IST
Iranian protesters defy crackdown with nationwide demonstrationsThe protests sweeping Iran since Amini - a 22-year-old woman from the country's Kurdish region - died on Sept. 16 while being held for "ina...
15 Oct, 2022, 10.01 PM IST
Iranians keep up the heat on leaders with protests, strikesAn Iranian state coroner's report denied that Mahsa Amini had died due to blows to the head and limbs while in police custody and linked he...
08 Oct, 2022, 11.12 PM IST
Iranian government scrambles to contain unrest as it spreads to more towns and citiesHundreds of protesters, mostly women, took to the streets following the death of Mahsa Amini - a Kurd native, chanting anti-government slog...
24 Sep, 2022, 03.12 PM IST
Iraqi PM to focus on US troop withdrawal in Biden meetingThe White House talks between the two allies come just a week after a deadly attack claimed by the Islamic State group, despite Baghdad dec...
24 Jul, 2021, 10.57 PM IST
Joe Biden to recognise atrocities against Armenians as genocideFriday's call between the two leaders was their first since Biden took office more than three months ago. The delay had become a worrying s...
24 Apr, 2021, 11.02 AM IST
Siddharth Chatterjee of India takes over as top UN diplomat in ChinaHe will be UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres's senior-most UN Representative in China as the UN Resident Coordinator.
16 Feb, 2021, 04.47 PM IST
- Elderly, deaf Neanderthal survived with friends' help: Study
New York, Oct 24 (IANS) An elderly Neanderthal who lived about 50,000 years ago and suffered from considerable hearing loss and multiple in...
24 Oct, 2017, 05.42 PM IST
Conflict between groups fighting the Islamic State terror group in IraqIt seems that Kurds, an ethnic group, have been seizing on the opportunity to take over territory that they expel ISIS from.
10 Jun, 2015, 03.05 PM IST
Ultra-superfast 5G broadband comes closerA collaboration between NEC Electronics Samsung and several academic centres in China and Iran have assessed the developments aimed at 5G s...
25 Nov, 2014, 01.23 PM IST