Bucharest, May 5 (UNI) Exit polls showed that George Simion, chairman of the Alliance for the Union of Romanians, took the lead in the first round of the Romanian presidential election rerun on Sunday. According to the exit polls conducted by the Center for Urban and Regional Sociology (CURS), Simion garnered 33.1 per cent of…
Jerusalem, May 5 (UNI) Israel’s military has begun issuing “tens of thousands” of call-up orders for reservists to intensify its offensive in the Gaza Strip, a senior defence official said on Sunday, vowing to increase pressure on Hamas to free hostages. Eyal Zamir, Chief of the General Staff of the Israel Defence Forces, announced the…
Tehran, May 5 (UNI) Iran on Sunday revised the death toll from a major explosion at its main commercial port late last month down to 57 from 70, while state television reported two arrests in connection with the blast. The semi-official Tasnim news agency quoted Hormozgan province’s Chief Justice Mojtaba Qahremani as saying the updated…
Lima, May 5 (UNI) The bodies of 13 mine company guards previously reported as kidnapped were found in north Peru’s La Libertad department, local media said Sunday. “Sources from the Executive Branch” confirmed the discovery of the bodies in the Pataz province, reported private news network Radio Programas del Peru. Police reports said that the…
Los Angeles, May 5 (UNI) Three people were hospitalised Sunday afternoon after a shooting at a park in Orange County, the U.S. state of California, authorities said. The Orange County Sheriff’s Department said in a post on X that “Deputies are responding to reports of a shooting at Featherly Regional Park in Yorba Linda.” The…
Guiyang, May 5 (UNI) Nine people died and one is missing in a boat capsize accident in a river of Qianxi City, southwest China’s Guizhou Province, on Sunday afternoon, according to local authorities. Four boats capsized in sudden strong winds, plunging 84 individuals into the water. So far, nine people have died, 70 are being…
Latehar, May 4 (UNI) Maoists torched eight vehicles of a mineral survey company late Saturday night in the Chandwa police station area of Latehar district in Jharkhand, police said. According to police sources, the armed Maoists arrived at the site where CMPDI, a mineral survey company, was conducting a coal survey in the Torisot village…
Kolkata, May 4 (UNI) West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose in a special report to the Union Home Ministry has recommended the deployment of Central Armed Forces in the border district of Murshidabad based on his visit there in the aftermath of the anti-Waqf bill violence that left three people dead, with scores of shops…
Jammu, May 4 (UNI) Pakistan Army continued violating the ceasefire by firing small arms on the Line of Control (LoC) in various parts of Jammu and Kashmir. Defence spokesman here on Sunday said that during the night of May 3-4, Pakistan Army posts resorted to unprovoked small arms fire across the LoC in areas opposite…
New Delhi, May 4 (UNI) Air Chief Marshal Amar Preet Singh, the Chief of Air Staff, on Sunday met Prime Minister Narendra Modi at his official residence here. The meeting comes amid the escalating tensions between India and Pakistan following the terrorist attack in Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir on April 22, in which 26 people,…
