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Asif said Pakistan was on high alert and that it would only use its arsenal of nuclear weapons if “there is a direct threat to our existence”. Pakistan’s defence minister, Khawaja Muhammad Asif, claimed on Monday that a military incursion by India was imminent in the aftermath of a deadly terror attack on tourists in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam last week. Tensions have been high between the two nuclear-armed nations since the attack that killed 26 people and triggered outrage in the country. There have been several calls for action against Pakistan. “We have reinforced our forces because it is…

The incident happened on Sunday evening in Canada’s Vancouver when members of the Filipino community gathered to celebrate Lapu Lapu Day. Canadian police arrested a man on Saturday after a car plowed into a street party in the western city of Vancouver killing a nine people, an incident now ruled out to be an act of terrorism’ by the cops. While the death toll was unconfirmed initially, Vancouver police later said nine had died in the incident. The incident happened shortly after 8 pm on Sunday when members of the Filipino community gathered to celebrate Lapu Lapu Day in Vancouver’s…

The Pakistani defence minister called for an international probe to prove the country’s involvement in the Pahalgam terror attack. Pakistani defence minister Khawaja Asif in a recent interview expressed his desire for Russia, China and other Wester countries to join the investigation into the Pahalgam terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir, to determine “whether India was telling the truth”. Khawaja Asif told the Russian government-run news agency RIA Novosti,”I think Russia or China or even Western countries can play a very, very positive role in this crisis and they can even set up an investigation team that should be assigned…

The police on Saturday issued a list of 14 local active terorists in Kashmir Valley. Out of these, nine terrorists are operating in South Kashmir. The security forces in Jammu and Kashmir continued their crackdown on terrorists on Sunday, days after 26 people were killed in the ghastly Pahalgam terrorist attack. A two-storied residence of Adnan Shafi Dar, a terrorist affiliated to The Resistance Front (TRF), a proxy of Pakistan-based terrorist outfit Lashkar-e-Toiba, was razed in Melhura in Zainapora area of Shopian district. A house belonging to another terrorist Amir Nazir was demolished in Pulwama’s Daramdora area. The security forces…

Senthil Balaji has been facing probe by the ED in an alleged cash-for-jobs case; Ponmudy has been facing heat from the opposition for recent remarks. Tamil Nadu electricity minister Senthil Balaji and minister of forests Ponmudy submitted their resignations to governor RN Ravi on Sunday, shortly after which chief minister MK Stalin reshuffled his cabinet. Transport minister SS Sivasankar has been additionally assigned the Electricity portfolio and S Muthusamy Housing Minister S Muthusamy has been allotted Excise and Prohibition, which Balaji also held. RS Rajakannappan will now oversee Forests and Khadi in addition to his existing Milk and Dairy Development…

During a phone call with his Pakistani counterpart Ishaq Dar, Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi said China is closely following developments after the Pahalgam terror attack. China on Sunday backed its close ally Pakistan in safeguarding its sovereignty and security interests, with foreign minister Wang Yi calling on New Delhi and Islamabad to exercise restrain in the aftermath of the terror attack in Pahalgam. During a phone call with his Pakistani counterpart Ishaq Dar, Wang said China is closely following developments after the terror attack and backs an “impartial investigation” into the incident, according to a readout from China’s foreign…

Pope Francis death set off mourning across the world and several world leaders attended the funeral with thousands of people lining up at the St. Peter’s Square. Pope Francis was laid to rest after a grand funeral, which was attended by over two lakh people, held on Saturday at the Vatican days after his death at the age of 88 on Easter Monday, April 21. Pope Francis’s death set off mourning across the Catholic world and days of ritual at the Vatican. US President Donald Trump, India’s Droupadi Murmu and several other world leaders attended the funeral with thousands of…

The port is located 1,050 kilometres southeast of Tehran on the Strait of Hormuz, a crucial waterway through which 20% of global oil trade passes. A massive explosion rocked Shahid Rajaee port in Iran’s Bandar Abbas city on Saturday, killing four people and injuring over 700. Port activities were suspended to extinguish the fire, and the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported that “many people were probably injured or even killed in the incident,” given the large number of workers at the port. “The cause of this incident was the explosion of several containers stored in the Shahid Rajaee Port wharf…

As per a senior ED official, the collected funds were allegedly diverted for personal and unauthorised use, while faculty salaries remained unpaid. The searches conducted by the Enforcement Directorate (ED), Lucknow, on Thursday (April 24) at seven locations across Uttar Pradesh’s Gautam Buddha Nagar (Noida), Delhi, and Haryana’s Gurgaon in connection with the FIIT-JEE case revealed that approximately ₹206 crore was collected from students of running batches on the pretext of providing educational services, which were ultimately not delivered, ED officials confirmed here on Saturday. “The collected funds were allegedly diverted for personal and unauthorised use, while faculty salaries remained…

Russian President Vladimir Putin told US envoy Steve Witkoff at a meeting on Friday that Moscow was ready for talks with Kyiv. Russia has expressed willingness to hold peace talks with Ukraine ‘without preconditions’, the Kremlin said on Saturday. According to Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov, President Vladimir Putin told US envoy Steve Witkoff at a meeting on Friday that Moscow was ready for talks with Kyiv. “During yesterday’s talks with Trump’s envoy Witkoff, Vladimir Putin reiterated that Russia is ready to resume negotiations with Ukraine without any preconditions,” Peskov said, adding that Putin has repeated that several times in the…