India on Thursday expressed gratitude to the governments of Israel, Iran, Jordan, Egypt, Armenia, and Turkmenistan for their support in the evacuation efforts carried out under ongoing Operation Sindhu. Addressing a weekly media briefing, Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal detailed that, India has so far mounted 14 flights to bring back its…
New Delhi: Amid reports that the US strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites had caused minimal damage to the Islamic Republic’s nuclear programme, the Central Intelligence Agency, citing a “body of credible intelligence”, confirmed that the strikes by Washington had “severely damaged” Tehran’s key nuclear facilities and that it would take years to rebuild those structures. In…
The Iranian Parliament on Wednesday approved a bill suspending cooperation with the UN nuclear watchdog, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). The decision followed the recent US strikes on three Iranian nuclear sites—dubbed “Operation Midnight Hammer” — in Esfahan, Fordow, and Natanz, Iran’s semi-official Mehr News Agency reported. Reports suggest that during the open session of…
Yemen’s Houthi group announced that it will continue military operations against Israel, hours after US President Donald Trump declared a ceasefire agreement between Iran and Israel. The announcement was made in a brief statement on social media platform X by Mohammed al-Bukhaiti, a member of the Houthi political bureau, Xinhua news agency reported. “The acceptance…
New Delhi: The 12-day conflict between Iran and Israel may have come to a halt, but its aftershocks are still being felt and that too thousands of kilometers away in India’s offices, factories and meeting rooms. While world leaders exchanged claims of diplomatic success, a quiet crisis was unfolding back home. A recent survey by…
Following 12 days of fierce fighting, a “full and complete ceasefire” has been announced between Iran and Israel by US President Donald Trump. The end to the war comes as a war threatened to engulf much of the world, with President Trump praising it as a triumph for the “endurance, courage, and wisdom” of both…
US President Donald Trump announced a “full and complete ceasefire” between Israel and Iran, ending 12 days of intense conflict. Trump praised the “win-win” agreement following retaliatory strikes, bringing a halt to the escalating tensions in the Middle East. Source link
Hours after US President Donald Trump claimed that Israel and Iran had agreed to a ceasefire, an Iranian ballistic missile struck an apartment complex in Beersheba on Tuesday, killing three people and injuring several others. According to the IANS, Iran reportedly launched eight missiles targeting central and southern Israel. The building in Beersheba was reduced…
Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi on Tuesday shared a post on X stating that military operations to “punish Israel for its aggression continued until the very last minute, at 4 am”. The post came just minutes after rejecting US President Donald Trump’s claim of the ceasefire and appeared to signal a possible de-escalation with…
As US President Donald Trump’s announcement that a ceasefire has been achieved between Iran and Israel, Iranian foreign minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi denied the claims and said that there is “no agreement as of now.” “As of now, there is NO “agreement” on any ceasefire or cessation of military operations. However, provided that the Israeli…
Iran-Israel War: A flash lit up the skies over Doha late Monday. Flares arched overhead. Then came the sound – deep, loud and unmistakable. Explosions rolled across the Qatari capital. Iran says it launched the strike. The target (Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar), according to Tehran, is the US military’s largest base in the…
In a mounting crisis of tensions, US aircraft have bombed three Iranian nuclear facilities, including Fordow – a uranium enrichment facility vital to Iran’s probable nuclear weapon program, and which has also been the target of repeated Israeli attacks. The bombings underscored the defining role of uranium enrichment in the current conflict. But what, then,…
New Delhi: While geopolitical tensions in the Middle East, including the ongoing Iran-Israel conflict, pose certain challenges to global trade dynamics, India’s export sector remains resilient and adaptive, the Federation of Indian Export Organisations (FIEO) said on Monday. The country’s trade with both Iran and Israel, while important, constitutes a small share of the overall…
A young engineer from Bihar’s Siwan has gone missing in Iran amid the Gulf country’s ongoing conflict with Israel. The missing youth has been identified as Siraj Ali Ansari (25), a resident of Ramapali village in the Muffasil police station area. He works as a quality control engineer in a petroleum company and was posted…
New Delhi: Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Sunday allayed fears over any disruption in oil supplies to Indian consumers due to the Israel-Iran war and further escalation in geopolitical tensions in the Middle East because of the US bombing of Iran’s nuclear sites. “We have been closely monitoring the evolving geopolitical…
New Delhi: Iran is talking about a move that could throw the global oil market into chaos. And this time, it is not just a political threat, it is halfway to being law. Iran’s parliament has approved a plan to close the Strait of Hormuz, a narrow stretch of water that carries nearly a fifth…
