NEW DELHI: India and Pakistan agreed to an immediate ceasefire on Saturday, following a sharp escalation in cross-border tensions triggered by the deadly April 22 terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir‘s Pahalgam. The breakthrough came after what the US President Donald Trump called “intense diplomatic engagement” over the past two days. The tension began when…
NEW DELHI: The Indian stock market, including the National Stock Exchange (NSE) and the BSE faced strong selling pressure in recent sessions due to geopolitical uncertainty. Amid rising India-Pakistan tensions, investors have been wondering if the stock market will be open on May 12, the day Buddha Purnima is celebrated nationwide. The good news: trading…
MUMBAI: Bombay HC has sought that the railway minister reconsider his decision not to pay a final claim settlement of Rs 5 crore to a 25-year-old woman who has been in a persistent vegetative state since her accident at Marine Drive on May 28, 2017. Nidhi Jethmalani, who was 17 at the time, was on…
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday proposed restarting direct peace negotiations with Ukraine in Istanbul on May 15 “without preconditions,” hours after European leaders demanded a full 30-day ceasefire beginning Monday. The offer comes as Kyiv and its allies intensify diplomatic efforts to halt the three-year war and pressure Moscow into halting hostilities.“We propose to…
BSF SI Mohammed Imtiaz (L) & Sergeant Surendra Kumar Moga JAMMU/JHUNJHUNU: The Army lost two men, IAF one, and a BSF sub-inspector was killed and seven others from his unit were wounded in the past 24 hours amid intensified shelling and drone attacks by Pakistani forces across Jammu region.Subedar Major Pawan Kumar, a JCO from…
NEW DELHI: Barely hours into announcement of the ceasefire pact between India and Pakistan, there were multiple and sustained incidents of firing by the Pakistan forces along the international border/LoC, including in Rajouri, Akhnoor, R S Pora, Udhampur and Jammu; besides drone attacks and “explosions” in Srinagar.Drone activity was also reported in Poonch, Udhampur and…
US President Donald Trump claimed on Saturday that “great progress” was made during the first day of high-stakes US-China trade talks in Geneva, signalling what he called a “total reset” in relations between the world’s two largest economies.In a post on Truth Social, the US president wrote, “A very good meeting today with China, in…
A soldier stands guard near Dal Lake in Srinagar on Saturday (PTI photo) NEW DELHI: BJP on Saturday dismissed claims that the pause in hostilities between India and Pakistan was driven by US pressure, emphasising that the agreement was firmly on New Delhi’s terms. Contrasting the current understanding with past instances where India lost strategic…
Gangster Chhota Rajan (File photo) MUMBAI: With a key witness admitting that he was uncertain about the identity of the person who made calls about threats, a special CBI court this week acquitted gangster Chhota Rajan in a 21-year-old case where he is accused of ordering the violent closure of a construction site after a…
NEW DELHI: It was shortly after 9am that India’s director general of military operations, Lt Gen Rajiv Ghai, got a call on the hotline from his Pakistani counterpart Maj Gen Kashif Abdullah. Abdullah sounded Ghai out on a ceasefire and, it is learned, referred to the conversation US secretary of state Marco Rubio had with…
