India summoned the representative of the Canadian High Commission on Saturday (Nov 2) after an Ottawa minister claimed that Home Minister Amit Shah ordered the targeting of Khalistani extremists in Canada. Meanwhile, as the West Asia crisis intensified, Iranian supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, vowed ‘tooth-breaking’ retaliation against Israel and the United States for their attacks…
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has issued a stark warning, cautioning that Gaza may face “ethnic cleansing” at the hands of Israel if global intervention does not occur soon. Meanwhile, Israel has called for UN special rapporteur Francesca Albanese’s resignation following her claims of an Israeli “genocidal campaign”. In India, air quality in Delhi has dipped…
India and China are set to complete their military disengagement along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh early this week. The process, as per reports, is set to be completed by Monday (Oct 28) and Tuesday (Oct 29). What will happen? Following the military disengagement process, patrolling will resume, as troops withdraw…
Kamala Harris has pledged that she would hold Donald Trump accountable for his alleged offences when she wins the US elections in ten days. In China, Lieutenant General Fang Yongxiang is reportedly the new military secretary. He was seen accompanying President Xi on a recent PLA inspection. Meanwhile, US President Joe Biden has expressed hope that Israel’s…
Ukraine struck a manufacturer of military explosives deep inside Russian territory overnight, as well as storage infrastructure at a military airfield in the Lipetsk region, Kyiv’s General Staff said in a statement on Sunday. Russian air defence units downed 110 Ukrainian drones over the country, Russia’s defence ministry said, including one over the Moscow region,…
A Boeing 767 chartered by Delta was forced to make an emergency stop on Saturday as it was taking off from Dakar for New York, Senegal’s air transport ministry announced. “The plane, in its take-off phase, carried out an acceleration manouevre followed by an emergency stop because of a technical incident,” said the ministry statement. The…
Chinese President Xi Jinping called this week for troops to strengthen their preparedness for war, state media reported on Saturday, just days after Beijing staged large-scale military drills around Taiwan. Xi made his comments while visiting a brigade of the People’s Liberation Army Rocket Force on Thursday, according to state-run broadcaster CCTV. Xi said the…
Chinese President Xi Jinping believes that China-United States relations are among the most important bilateral relations in the world. Ahead of the 2024 US Presidential elections, the Chinese premier according to remarks from a letter to the 2024 annual awards dinner of the National Committee on US-China Relations said a successful partnership between the two…
Elon Musk-owned SpaceX scripted history on Sunday (Oct 13) when Starship’s “Super Heavy” booster returned to the launch pad, minutes after launching from the same platform, only to be caught by the mechanical arms, called ‘Mechazilla’. In other news, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told UN chief Antonio Guterres to pull out the UN peacekeepers from…
Thousands of Taiwanese pilgrims travelled to China’s Fujian province this week for a religious festival. It’s a rare instance of cross straight cultural exchanges that threaten to be overshadowed by China’s military phase. Watch to know more Source link