IMPHAL: Normal life was affected in the five districts of the Imphal valley on Saturday due to a bandh called over the arrest of six gunmen and the death of one in a shootout with police in Thoubal on December 14. Shops and other commercial establishments were closed, while public vehicles remained off the road….
Russia is deploying “human waves” of North Korean soldiers, the United States said Friday, and at least one soldier captured by Ukraine has died from his wounds. According to White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby, some North Korean soldiers have taken their own lives rather than surrender to Ukrainian forces. These suicides, he…
It was a holiday filled with pain and sadness for Scott Cormier and his family. Cormier’s brother Chris, 43, died in a car accident in Moncton on December 15. Five days later, Chris’s four-year-old daughter Matilda succumbed to the injuries she sustained in the head-on collision and died at the IWK Hospital in Halifax. “Cold….
As sit-ins continued across the country on Saturday against the killings in Parachinar in Kurram district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, traffic obstacles persisted for residents of Karachi, where the protests entered their fifth day. The religious political party Majlis Wahdat-i-Muslimeen (MWM) had called for protests throughout the country to express its solidarity with the people of…
NEW DELHI: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday criticized the government’s decision to carry out former prime minister Manmohan Singh’s cremation at Nigambodh Ghat instead of a designated memorial site, calling it a “grave insult” to the late leader.In a post on .Rahul also wrote about Singh’s legacy, describing him as a leader whose policies…
A handful of midterms early in the new year will serve as the first tests of the political environment following the victories of Donald Trump and the Republicans in November. In the early months of 2025, there will be special legislative elections in Virginia, a battleground race in Wisconsin that will once again determine the…
Assembly of First Nations National Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak’s first year as leader has been one of unity, she said in an interview with CTV News. “Coming together, I think we have come together as First Nations. I see that the AFN has unprecedented attendance at our assemblies.” However, it has had to deal with…
India on Saturday granted former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, one of the architects of the country’s economic liberalization in the early 1990s, a state funeral with full military honors, including a gun salute. Singh, who held the position from 2004 to 2014, died at the age of 92 on Thursday, following which seven days of…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Saturday gave the punjab government There is time until December 31 to convince the peasant leader Jagjit Singh Dallewalwho has been in a hunger strike for more than a month, to transfer me to a hospital. In a hearing, a vacation bench of Justices Surya Kant and Ujjal Bhuyan…
Senior Canadian officials met with top advisers to Donald Trump on Friday to discuss border security and the potential impact of tariffs the president-elect has threatened to impose when he takes office next month. Canadian Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc and Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly traveled to Mar-a-Lago to meet with Howard Lutnick and Doug…