Washington: US State Department Principal Deputy Spokesperson Vedant Patel said on Thursday that the US is eager to continue deepening and strengthening its cooperation with partners in India.Asked about Lok Sabha elections in India and whether the US has sent any observers, Patel responded, "I am not aware of the United States sending any observers. We generally don’t in the case of advanced

Islamabad: Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari on Thursday urged political leaders to shun the politics of polarisation to address the challenges faced by the cash-strapped country, amidst sloganeering by lawmakers from jailed former prime minister Imran Khan’s party against him and the government.Addressing the joint session of Parliament to mark the beginning of the new parliamentary year after

New York: The United States on Thursday used its veto power to block a United Nations Security Council resolution on granting statehood to Palestine.In the vote 12-1, the one being the US veto and two abstentions, the UNSC did not adopt a draft resolution that would have recommended the General Assembly to hold a vote with the broader UN membership to allow Palestine to join as a full UN Member

Tel Aviv: A senior Hamas intelligence figure was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza, the Israel Defense Forces said on Thursday morning. Meanwhile, the IDF confirmed it arrested Palestinian terrorists hiding in a Gaza school.The strike eliminated Yussef Rafik Ahmed Shabat, a security officer in Hamas’ military intelligence wing of the Beit Hanoun Battalion. The IDF said Shabat was responsible

Washington: In response to Iran’s unprecedented mass drone and missile strike on Israel, the United States on Thursday imposed sanctions on the actors involved in Tehran’s unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) program, including suppliers and customers, the White House said in an official statement.The sanctions target leaders and entities connected to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Iran’s