03-04-2021 PARIS/ TEHRAN/ WASHINGTON: United States and Iranian officials will go to Vienna next week in a bid to revive the 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and global powers, however, they will not hold direct talks, diplomats said Friday. Even without face-to-face talks, which Tehran has ruled out, the presence …

03-04-2021 WASHINGTON: After the deadly January 6 insurrection, the US Capitol became a fortress. On Friday, when some, but not all, of those security procedures were still in place, a knife-wielding assailant allegedly rammed into Capitol police officers with his car. The incident reinvigorates questions about how to protect the Capitol, and …

02-04-2021 RIYADH/ JERUSALEM: A normalization deal between Saudi Arabia and Israel would benefit the region, the kingdom’s foreign minister has said, adding that a potential deal “depends to a large extent on the progress of the peace process”. Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud, during an interview …

02-04-2021 TAIPEI: At least 36 people were reported killed and dozens injured after a packed express train derailed in a tunnel in eastern Taiwan on Friday morning, authorities said, in the worst train crash on the island in at least 40 years. The transport ministry said some 40 injured passengers …

02-04-2021 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India opened up its coronavirus inoculation program to people above 45 on Thursday as infections surge, which will delay vaccine exports from the world’s biggest maker of the drug. The country, with the most number of reported COVID-19 cases after the United States and Brazil, …

02-04-2021 TEHRAN/ WASHINGTON: President of Iran Hassan Rouhani reminded the US that any further delay in honoring the 2015 nuclear deal will be to its own detriment. In remarks after inaugurating a number of national industrial projects via videoconference on Thursday, President Rouhani said it is now up to the …

01-04-2021 RIYADH. BAGHDAD: Iraq will never become a launch-pad for attacks on Saudi Arabia, Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi pledged on Wednesday during a long-awaited visit to the kingdom aimed at forging closer economic and security ties. In January, explosive-laden drones crashed into the main royal palace in Riyadh, with American …

01-04-2021 By Syed Jaffer Abbas Jafri (SJA Jafri) ABUJA/ MAPUTO/ ADDIS ABABA/ KARACHI: Anti-Shia Terrorist Organizations, Groups and Networks particularly al-Qaeda, Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL), Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Tehreek-e-Taliban Afghanistan (TTA), Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ), Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM), Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP), Jihad Against …

Apr;01-2021 In the poll-bound states of Assam and West Bengal, polling for the Second Phase of Assembly Elections is progressing smoothly. The average voter turnout was registered at 48.26 per cent in Assam while it was 58.15 per cent in West Bengal at 01.30 P.M. The people were seen standing in …

Apr 1-2021 New Dehli(PMI)Government has extended the last date for linking of Aadhaar number with PAN upto 30th June this year in view of the difficulties arising out of the COVID-19 pandemic. The deadline to link PAN with Aadhaar had ended yesterday.  Earlier, the Centre had extended the deadline to …