Tehran:To increase the air combat capabilities the Iran has launched the mass production of a fourth-generation all-indigenous interceptor jet. Defense Minister Brigadier-General Amir Hatami presided over a ceremony to inaugurate the production line for the Kowsar fighter jet at Iran Aircraft Manufacturing Industrial Company in Isfahan Province on Saturday. In a major step toward the […]
United Nations: The killing of journalists around the world for doing their job is ‘outrageous’ and should not become the ‘new normal’ according to UN Secretary-General António Guterres. In just over a decade, some 1,010 journalists have been killed for reporting the news, and in nine out of 10 cases, the perpetrators are never brought to […]
United Nations: UN sexual and reproductive health agency (UNFPA) has warned that lack of food, displacement, poor nutrition, disease outbreaks and eroding healthcare have heavily affected the health and well-being of 1.1 million malnourished pregnant and lactating women, causing numerous cases of premature or low-birth weight babies, severe postpartum bleeding, and extremely life-threatening labor processes. […]
Washington: US defence secretary James Mattis, has called for ceasefire in Yemen while attending an event on Tuesday. “We have go to move toward a peace effort here, and we can’t say we are going to do it some time in the future,” Mattis said while speaking at the United States Institute of Peace. “We […]
Moscow:Russia will boost military spending massively to reinforce its borders with former Soviet republics Ukraine and Georgia should they join NATO, a Foreign Ministry official has warned. Andrei Kelin, director of the Russian Foreign Ministry’s European cooperation department, made his remarks during an expert discussion NATO’s Future and Russia’s Interests on the platform of the […]
Srinagar: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has inaugurated a massive new airport project in Istanbul, which, once complete, is expected to become one of the world’s largest. More than 50 foreign dignitaries from at least 18 countries on Monday attended the lavish opening ceremony of the first phase of the new facility, called Istanbul Airport, local media […]
Jakarta: A ‘Lion Air’ flight Boeing with at least 189 people on board, crashed into the sea minutes after taking off from Jakarta airport on Monday morning. Indonesia had not even recuperated from the recent havoc done by the earthquake, a major tragedy has again jolted the nation as Indonesia’s Lion air passenger plane which […]
Srinagar: Bangladesh’s former prime minister Khaleda Zia was sentenced on Monday to another seven years in jail by a court here in a corruption case. Zia, 73, who is already serving a jail term since February after being convicted in another case related embezzlement of funds of an orphanage named after her husband president Ziaur […]
Jakarta: Indonesia’s Lion air passenger plane which took off from Jakarta to the city of Pangkal Pinang at around 6.20 am is believed to have sunk after it crashed into the sea near Indonesia’s island. As per initial reports the plane with 188 people on board are feared dead as the plane lost contact soon […]
Damascus: Islamic State (IS) militants killed at least 70 Kurdish-led, US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fighters in a series of counterattacks in eastern Syria near the Iraqi border, a war monitor said. The IS counter-offensive against the SDF has started on Friday and continued till Saturday, during which the terror-designated group recaptured areas it had […]
