Middle East

UAE weapons show draws major deals, traders amid pandemic

11:04 pm February 21, 2021

Abu Dhabi: In spite of the surging coronavirus pandemic, major arms makers descended Sunday on a convention center in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, hoping to make deals with militaries across the Middle East. The UAE unveiled $1.36 billion in local and foreign arms deals to supply its forces with everything from South African drones to Serbian artillery. Although the […]

CMS holds Global Interfaith Convention to promote communal harmony

Italian vessels rescue 47 migrants after small boat capsizes

11:49 pm February 20, 2021

Rome: Italy’s coast guard and border police motorboats rescued 47 migrants whose small wooden boat capsized in the Mediterranean Sea south of a tiny Italian island early Saturday. The coast guard said in a statement that migrants were being transferred to the Italian vessels when the boat overturned some 15 miles south of Lampedusa island. After tossing life vests into the […]

Delhi-based Kashmiri scribes, over 25 people from Valley were potential spying targets: Report

US reporter held by al-Qaida-linked group in Syria released

7:37 pm February 18, 2021

Beirut: An American journalist, living in northwestern Syria for nearly a decade, has been released, six months after he was captured by an al-Qaida-linked militant group, Syrian opposition media reported. Bilal Abdul Kareem, a native of Mount Vernon, N.Y., has been living in the rebel-held Syrian northwest since 2012, reporting on the Syrian government military campaigns against areas in opposition hands. He had been detained last August, following […]

Transgender's plea for passport: HC seeks Centre stand

UK to return medals to vets discharged because of sexuality

7:40 pm February 16, 2021

London: The British military will allow former service personnel who were stripped of medals because of their sexuality to apply to have them restored after a Royal Navy veteran’s 27-year battle to have his decorations returned. The Ministry of Defence announced the new policy on Tuesday, more than two decades after Britain lifted its ban on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender service personnel in 2000. […]

HCL Infosystems logs Rs 34.3 cr loss; to sell HCL Infotech to Novezo Consulting

11:43 pm February 10, 2021

New Delhi: IT firm HCL Infosystems on Wednesday reported a loss of Rs 34.32 crore for the quarter ended December 2020. The company’s Board of Directors has also approved the sale of its wholly-owned subsidiary HCL Infotech Ltd to Novezo Consulting at a purchase price based on the enterprise value of HCL Infotech as of the date of the share transfer. The company had posted […]