25-03-2025 NEW DELHI: India’s key manufacturing scheme received investments of nearly $19 billion as of November last year, the trade ministry said on Saturday, a day after Reuters reported New Delhi will let the $23-billion incentive program lapse amid disappointing results. The incentive scheme will not be expanded beyond 14 …

25-03-2025 RIYADH: US negotiators are holding talks in the Saudi capital Riyadh with their Ukrainian counterparts and separately with the Russians on Monday. Washington’s aim is to bring about an immediate partial ceasefire to the war in Ukraine, followed by a comprehensive peace deal. So could these Riyadh talks produce …

25-03-2025 ISTANBUL: The main rival to Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been formally arrested and charged with corruption. Ekrem Imamoglu, the mayor of Istanbul, was due to be selected as the Republican People’s Party’s (CHP) 2028 presidential nominee in a vote on Sunday. He has denied the allegations and …

25-03-2025 VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis has appeared at his window of the Gemelli hospital in Rome and offered a blessing for the first time since being admitted on 14 February. The 88-year-old pontiff was discharged minutes later and doctors say he will need at least two months of rest at …

25-03-2025 CAIRO/ GAZA STRIP: More than 50,000 Palestinians have been killed during Israel’s military campaign in Gaza, the territory’s Hamas-run health ministry has announced. That number, 50,021 equates to about 2.1% of the 2.3 million pre-war population of the territory, or around 1 in 46 people. A total of 113,274 …

24-03-2025 WASHINGTON: United States President Donald Trump’s administration will revoke the temporary legal status of 530,000 people including Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans in the United States, according to a Federal Register notice. The move, the latest expansion of Trump’s crackdown on immigration, is effective from April 24, and cuts …

24-03-2025 LONDON: London’s Heathrow Airport resumed full operations on Saturday and ordered a probe into how it dealt with a power outage that shut Europe’s busiest air hub for almost a day as airlines warned of further delays and cancellations. British Airways, opens new tab, whose main hub is Heathrow, …

24-03-2025 WASHINGTON: The United States has lifted a $10m reward for information leading to the arrest of a major Taliban leader, Sirajuddin Haqqani, an Afghan Ministry of Interior Affairs spokesperson says. Despite the announcement on Saturday, the FBI still lists the reward on its website, saying Haqqani was “believed to …

24-03-2025 UNITED NATIONS/ JOHANNESBURG: Another conflict is looming in the world’s youngest country, South Sudan, which gained independence from Sudan in 2011 and saw civil war erupt shortly after its foundation. A tenuous power-sharing deal is teetering on the brink. An evacuation of non-emergency US government employees is underway, and …

24-03-2025 ISTANBUL: Prosecutors early Sunday requested that detained Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, the top challenger to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, be formally arrested over allegations of corruption and terror links. A court is now set to decide whether the popular opposition figure will be charged and jailed pending a trial. …