Agra (UP), Mar 1 (UNI) Four persons were killed and about 18 people were injured when a double-decker bus rammed into a stationary truck in Fatehabad area of Agra district here in Uttar Pradesh on Saturday, police sources said. Police sources said that the incident took place on the Agra-Lucknow Expressway when the bus of…
New Delhi, Mar 1 (UNI) Prime Minister Narendra Modi hailed the Union Budget 2025-26, saying it focuses on strengthening the agriculture sector and boosting the rural economy. Addressing the post-budget webinar on agriculture and rural prosperity, Modi said,” We consider agriculture as the primary engine of development and our aim is to ensure that no…
Karachi, Mar 1 (UNI) England captain Jos Buttler won the toss and opted to bat first against South Africa in their final group-stage match of the ICC Champions Trophy 2025 at the National Stadium here on Saturday. Speaking at the toss, Buttler said, “We are going to bat first today, looks like a decent wicket,…
Agartala, Mar 1 (UNI) A Bangladeshi smuggler was killed, and a Border Security Force (BSF) jawan sustained serious injuries in a violent clash along the India-Bangladesh border in Tripura’s Sepahijala on Friday night, an official said. BSF claimed the on duty jawans had to open fire when the smugglers pelted stones targeting them during an…
Washington, Mar 1 (UNI) US President Donald Trump said on Friday that Volodymyr Zelenskyy should stop saying all negative things about Russian leader Vladimir Putin. When asked what Zelenskyy needs to do to restart talks following a failed meeting in the Oval office earlier in the day, Trump said “He’s got to say, I want…
Colombo, Mar 1 (UNI) Sri Lanka has frozen criminal assets worth 22.4 million U.S. dollars (6.6 billion rupees) from December 2024 to January 2025, Minister of Public Security Ananda Wijepala told parliament on Friday. He revealed that among the confiscated assets, 15.25 million dollars worth of assets belonged to drug traffickers. The government has also…
Riyadh, Mar 1 (UNI) Saudi Arabia on Friday voiced its rejection of forming a “parallel government” in war-torn Sudan. Saudi Arabia rejects “any illegitimate steps or measures taken outside the framework of the Republic of Sudan’s official institutions that may affect its unity and do not reflect the will of its people, including the call…
Moscow, Mar 1 (UNI) Russian President Vladimir Putin ratified an agreement on security guarantees with Belarus within the Union State, according to a document posted on the country’s official legal information portal on Friday. The agreement was originally signed by Putin and his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko on Dec. 6, 2024 in Minsk. It was…
Jakarta, Mar 1 (UNI) A 6.0-magnitude earthquake jolted Indonesia’s eastern Maluku province early Saturday without triggering large waves, the country’s Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency reported. The tremor struck at 4:58 a.m. Jakarta time on Saturday (2158 GMT Friday), with the epicenter located 167 km southeast of the Banda Islands at a depth of 158…
United Nations, Mar 1 (UNI) Attacks by the Islamic State (IS)-related Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have killed at least 23 civilians, UN humanitarians said on Friday. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), citing local authorities, said the deadly escalation occurred in several…
