New Delhi’mar’21 2023-The BJP is the world’s most important foreign political party and it may also be the least understood, according to an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal authored by Walter Russell Mead. “India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party is, from the standpoint of American national interests, the most …

21-03-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies NEW DELHI: Police in India’s Punjab are searching for a Sikh separatist leader who has been on the run since Saturday. Mobile internet is suspended across the state and more than 100 of Amritpal Singh’s supporters have been detained but despite numerous roadblocks and a …

21-03-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies LONDON/ PARIS/ KARACHI: The Muslim holy month of Ramadan will begin later this week. The pre-sunrise to sunset fast lasts anywhere from 12 to 18 hours, depending on where you are in the world. Muslims believe that Ramadan is the month when the first verses …

21-03-2023 Bureau Report SYDNEY: A major clean-up effort is under way in Australia after millions of fish died in a river in western New South Wales (NSW). Fish will be cleared from “high density areas”, but it will not be possible to remove all the carcasses, police say. Police reassured …

21-03-2023 TEHRAN/ RIYADH: Iran says Saudi Arabia has invited Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi for an official visit just over a week since the countries agreed to restore diplomatic relations. The invitation is said to have come in a letter from King Salman, but has not yet been confirmed by the …

21-03-2023 WASHINGTON/ LONDON/ BAGHDAD: The invasion of March 2003 was a catastrophe for Iraq and its people. More proof of that, measured in broken lives, was at a suspected site of a mass grave in the desert outside Sinjar, not far from the border with Syria. Survivors of one of …

21-03-2023 Bureau Report + Agencies LONDON/ NEW DELHI/ MELBOURNE: A man has been arrested on suspicion of violent disorder after a crowd incident saw windows smashed at the Indian High Commission in London, media reported on Monday. Metropolitan Police officers were called to the building in Aldwych, Westminster, at around …

21-03-2023 BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping is set to embark on his first state visit to Russia in four years, spotlighting an alliance that has faced growing scrutiny since Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. Here are the key aspects of China and Russia’s bilateral relationship: Common international goal In February 2022, …

21-03-2023 DUBAI/ DAMASCUS: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad met on Sunday with Emirati leaders in Abu Dhabi, his second Gulf visit since last month’s earthquake in his country prompted renewed efforts to bring Damascus back into the Arab fold. The trip Assad’s second to the oil-rich United Arab Emirates (UAE) in …

21-03-2023 PARIS: French President Emmanuel Macron said that he hoped his bitterly contested pension’s reform plan, forced through parliament without a vote, could complete “its democratic journey”, a day before crucial votes in parliament. The controversial legislation, which has led to months of protests in parliament and on the streets, …