International

29-03-2026 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India’s parliament has passed a controversial bill that seeks to change how transgender people are legally recognized and their right to self-identify, amid protests by opposition parties and the LGBTQ community. The government says the changes will make welfare benefits more accessible and strengthen an …

29-03-2026 DUBAI/ TEL AVIV/ WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump warned Iran on Thursday ​to “get serious” about a deal to end nearly four weeks of fighting, after its foreign minister said Tehran was reviewing the US proposal but that there were no ‌talks on winding down the war. Trump’s comments …

29-03-2026 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India’s Reliance Industries has not purchased ‌crude oil of Iranian origin, the company said in a statement on Thursday. Media earlier ⁠this week reported that Reliance has purchased 5 million barrels of Iranian oil after the US granted a temporary waiver. At that ‌time, ⁠Reliance …

29-03-2026 BEIRUT/ TEHRAN: The war launched by the United States and Israel has killed more than 1,500 people in Iran. This number is considered conservative, as actual calculations are yet to be released by the authorities but the devastation from the war has also triggered mass displacement in the country: …

29-03-2026 JERUSALEM: An Israeli air strike has killed Alireza Tangsiri, commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps navy, Israel’s defence minister says. The killing was carried out on Wednesday night “in a precise … operation” and targeted other “senior officers of the naval command”, Israel Katz said on Thursday in …

28-03-2026 SANA’A: Yemen’s Houthi rebels attacked Israel with a barrage of ballistic missiles their first such strikes since the US-Israel war on Iran began. Brigadier-General Yahya Saree, a military spokesman for the Houthis, announced the attack on Saturday on the rebels’ Al-Masirah satellite television. Strikes “will continue until the declared …

28-03-2026 KATHMANDU: Nepal’s former prime minister KP Sharma Oli has been taken to hospital following his arrest over his alleged involvement in a deadly crackdown on protests last year. Oli was admitted to a clinic in Kathmandu as a part of routine police procedure soon after his arrest at his …

28-03-2026 BEIRUT: Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem has called for national unity as Israel continues its military assault on Lebanon, vowing to continue fighting “without limits” as Israeli aerial and ground attacks have killed more than 1,000 people across the country. In a statement on Wednesday, Qassem said the country faced …

28-03-2026 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: An Indian man whose life support was removed after the Supreme Court accepted his parents’ plea to do so has died. Harish Rana’s case is the first instance of court-approved passive euthanasia, the act of withdrawing or withholding life-sustaining treatment in India. Rana, 31, died …

28-03-2026 GAZA STRIP/ WEST BANK: “This assault wasn’t just meant to burn the houses but also to kill, to kill women and children,” says Barhan Omar, standing in the charred ruins of his family’s large villa, which Israeli settlers attacked on Sunday. “They came in big numbers. This was organized …