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September 20, 2024 8:43 AM

Quad has been working to make lives of people better in Indo-Pacific: US

US State Department's Hindustani Language Spokesperson, Margaret Macleod, has said that Quad since its inception has been working to make the lives of people better in the Indo-Pacific. She said that US President Joe Biden is hosting Quad Summit in Delaware, as it is his state and he wants to showca...

September 19, 2024 5:12 PM

BJP releases manifesto for Haryana polls, promises two lakh govt jobs

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday released its manifesto for the Haryana Assembly elections, just a day after the Congress party announced seven guarantees for the poll-bound state. Union Minister and BJP President JP Nadda, along with Haryana BJP President Mohan Lal Badoli and Chief Min...

September 19, 2024 12:15 PM

Sri Lanka’s 2022 ‘Aragalaya’ revolt hangs heavy over presidential vote

Just over two years since Sri Lanka's 'Aragalaya' uprising that deposed the nation's president, the movement that sparked the mass struggle is rallying behind Anura Kumara Dissanayake to lead the fight against corruption and revive a broken economy. Marxist-leaning Dissanayake, popularly known as...

September 19, 2024 12:04 PM

Pager attacks in Lebanon: Who still uses pagers anyway??

As mobile phones became the world's main communications tool, pagers, also known as beepers because of the sound they make to notify users about incoming messages, were largely rendered obsolete, with demand plunging from their 1990s heyday. But the tiny electronic devices remain a vital means of c...

September 19, 2024 10:38 AM

Middle East on edge as second wave of explosions in Lebanon kills 20

Hand-held radios used by armed group Hezbollah detonated on Wednesday across Lebanon's south in the country's deadliest day since cross-border fighting erupted between the militants and Israel nearly a year ago, stoking tensions after similar explosions of the group's pagers the day before. Lebanon...

September 18, 2024 4:15 PM

Hezbollah exploding pager trail runs from Taiwan to Hungary

The detonation of thousands of pagers targeting Hezbollah in Lebanon has left a mysterious trail from Taiwan to Hungary, while raising the prospect of another full-scale war in the Middle East between the Iran-backed group and arch-foe Israel. Israel's Mossad spy agency, which has a long history of...