11-08-2024 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: Indian automaker Mahindra & Mahindra, opens new tab and China’s Shaanxi Automobile Group have agreed to set up a $3 billion joint venture to build a car manufacturing plant in India and are awaiting New Delhi’s approval, sources told Reuters. A majority stake in the …

11-08-2024 BRASILIA/ APUI:  Fire brigades in the Brazilian Amazon are battling blazes off to their worst start in 20 years for the rainforest, according to government satellite data, following a record-breaking drought aggravated by global warming. Smoke blanketed the horizon along the Transamazonian Highway outside the town of Apui on …

11-08-2024 GLENDALE: Vice President Kamala Harris campaigned in a packed arena in Arizona on Friday, hoping to put Republican candidate Donald Trump on the back foot in the West, while Trump held his own rally in Montana to support a Republican candidate for Senate. The Democratic presidential candidate, less than …

11-08-2024 TEHRAN: Iran is set to carry out an order by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to “harshly punish” Israel over the assassination of a Hamas leader in Tehran, a Revolutionary Guards deputy commander was quoted as saying on Friday by local news agencies. “The supreme leader’s orders regarding the …

11-08-2024 AYOUROUS, NIGER: It was just a few minutes before 7 o’clock on a Friday evening in early June when Kani* and 10 others fleeing violence in northeastern Mali arrived at a checkpoint in Labbezanga, close to the border with Niger. Six armed men, three of them wearing military fatigues, …

11-08-2024 DHAKA: The Chief Justice of Bangladesh’s top court has said he agreed “in principle” to resign after an ultimatum from protesters, days after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina fled to neighboring India. Obaidul Hassan, who was appointed to helm the Supreme Court last year and is seen as a loyalist …

10-08-2024 GAZA CITY: An Israeli air strike on a school building sheltering displaced Palestinians in Gaza City has martyred more than 100 people, the director of a hospital has told media. Fadl Naeem, head of al-Ahli Hospital where many of the casualties were taken, said those were the victims who …

10-08-2024 TEHRAN/ UNITED NATIONS: Iran is set to carry out an order by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to “harshly punish” Israel over the assassination of a Hamas leader in Tehran, a Revolutionary Guards deputy commander was quoted as saying on Friday by local news agencies. “The supreme leader’s orders …

10-08-2024 DHAKA/ NEW DELHI: Indian companies are slowly resuming normal operations in neighboring Bangladesh following disruption linked to deadly anti-government protests that forced Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to resign and flee to India. Here are some details of what Indian companies have said about their activities in Bangladesh, where many …

10-08-2024 BERLIN/ VIENNA: An 18-year-old Iraqi national was detained in Vienna in connection with investigations into an alleged plot to attack a Taylor Swift concert in the Austrian capital, Austria’s interior minister said on Friday. The Iraqi comes from the same circle as the main suspect, a 19-year-old Austrian with …