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GULF OF ADEN: Two commercial vessels with 22 Indians on board have been hijacked by armed pirates in separate incidents off Yemen and Somalia, a senior shipping ministry official said on Friday, according to a report. All Indian crew members aboard both ships are safe, the official added....more
NEW DELHI: The Delhi Police has registered an FIR in the case of a 19-year-old student protester who suffered pellet-gun injuries during the July 20 march on Parliament as Rahul Gandhi, accompanied by the victim, Sahil Lochab, staged a sit-in outside a Delhi police station, refusing to budge until an FIR is filed in the case....more

By Deepak Arora
MUMBAI: US Ambassador to India Sergio Gor on Tuesday called for India and the United States to work together as “true partners” to address friction points and unlock the full potential of their economic relationship. Addressing the Indo-American Chamber of Commerce (IACC) National Convention in Mumbai, Ambassador Gor called for stronger India-US economic partnership. He stressed the need for predictable taxation and regulatory frameworks to provide businesses with greater certainty and encourage investment and innovation....more
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump said Wednesday he would meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un later this year, in what would be their first encounter of Trump's second term. Trump also said that North Korea had 57 "very powerful" nuclear weapons, in a rare and unusually specific assessment by a US president of Kim's atomic arsenal....more

By Rear Admiral Dhiren Vig (Retd)
NEW DELHI: India's military justice system, long regarded as a cornerstone of discipline within the Armed Forces, is facing renewed calls for reform amid concerns over procedural shortcomings, judicial delays and the need for greater transparency in court martial proceedings. The military legal framework operates under a distinct set of laws designed to ensure swift disciplinary action and maintain operational readiness, morale and discipline among service personnel....more
WASHINGTON: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Thursday warned allies that they would either be with them or against them when it comes to economically isolating Iran. He said the new push to ramp up sanctions against Iran would be the "greatest coordinated economic isolation" in the history of the world. Speaking to CNBC, in a message to allies, he said, "This is going to be the greatest coordinated economic isolation in the history of the world. And we are going to them and saying you are either with us or against us"....more

By Deepak Arora
NEW DELHI: The Ministry of Defence has signed a contract with has signed a contract with US defence major General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) for the leasing of two MQ-9B Sea Guardian High-Altitude Long-Endurance (HALE) Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS) for the Indian Navy for a period of 30 months. The contract is valued at approximately Rs 1,943 crore. It was signed in the presence of Additional Secretary and Director General (Acquisition), Department of Defence, A. Anbarasu, at Kartavya Bhawan-2 here on Monday....more
WASHINGTON: The Donald Trump administration has flagged over 40 US trading partners, including India, Canada, and the European Union, for potential risks in aiding Chinese tariff evasion by operating a "shadow trans-shipment network". The United States vowed to tap artificial intelligence to help detect and penalise such illegal practices. The White House report, titled 'The Great Transshipment Scam', criticised the longstanding concern surrounding "illegal transshipment," where goods could be sent through a third country that faces lower US tariffs to avoid paying higher levies imposed by President Donald Trump....more

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday asked the top government official to engage with the youth more during a high-level meeting with top government officials. Modi chaired the third high-level meeting with Secretaries to the Government of India at his residence. He discussed the future action agenda of ministries and departments dealing with infrastructure and connectivity, security and external affairs, and governance, according to a press release....more
NEW DELHI: The Congress Working Committee (CWC) on Wednesday resolved to continue with the tradition, as set by a 1937 CWC decision, of reciting only the first two stanzas of the national song 'Vande Mataram' at party programmes. The decision comes in the wake of the Centre recently making the full recital of the song part of the official protocol....more

SRINAGAR: US Ambassador to India Sergio Gor has described Jammu and Kashmir as an “important part of India” after meeting Chief Minister Omar Abdullah in Srinagar. Ambassador Gor, who arrived in Srinagar as part of his first visit to Jammu and Kashmir since assuming office, held discussions with Omar Abdullah on India-US relations and areas where Washington could engage with the Union Territory....more
LONDON: Israeli plans to build a major new illegal settlement that would cleave the occupied West Bank in two have provoked widespread condemnation from around the world. In a joint statement issued on Thursday, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Canada and Norway called Israel’s opening of construction tenders for more than 1,200 housing units under the E1 settlement project “unacceptable” and in violation of “the territorial contiguity of the Palestinian Territories”....more

TEL AVIV: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreed on Monday with US envoy Jared Kushner that a US General should supervise Hamas's disarmament, a day after Donald Trump's son-in-law met the Palestinian militant group’s representative. According to an official, Netanyahu told Kushner that Israel would not pull troops from Gaza until the disarmament is complete....more
NEW DELHI: Delhi has recorded 1,777 cases of swine flu so far this year. On Friday, Delhi health minister Pankaj Kumar Singh and health department officials met Union Health Minister J P Nadda and senior officials from the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare to review the swine flu situation in the capital, according to a report....more
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