A complete shutdown has been observed in Poonch (ANI Image) POONCH: A complete shutdown was observed in Poonch on Tuesday as members of the Shia Muslim community mourned the killing of Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and protested against the US and Israel.Police and CRPF personnel have been placed on high alert across the...
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Gulf travel update: Dubai, UAE, Bahrain and Qatar see some flights resume amid Iran war
A plume of smoke caused by an Iranian strike at Dubai International Airport. (Photo: AP) Several airlines on Tuesday began resuming limited commercial services to the Middle East, cautiously returning to the skies to evacuate thousands of passengers stranded by the escalating conflict in the Gulf.According to the Dubai Airports website, a number of commercial...
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US-Israel-Iran war hits oil supplies: How India is preparing for the economic fallout
Refiners have begun scouting for alternative crude sources to offset supplies affected by the conflict in West Asia. (AI image) India is looking at several emergency measures to tackle the risk of fuel shortages if shipping through the Strait of Hormuz remains affected for an extended period. Strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf is...
US hits Iran’s ‘command & control’ sites; Trump says war ‘can be fought forever’
. US President Donald Trump on Tuesday boasted of America’s military capability, claiming an “unlimited supply of weapons” and saying the “war can be fought forever” amid escalating tensions with Iran. The remarks came after a joint US-Israeli strike killed Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.The situation in the Middle East continues to evolve, as...
‘Back home and safe’: PV Sindhu returns to India after being stuck in Dubai
PV Sindhu (Image credit: PTI) NEW DELHI: Indian badminton ace PV Sindhu has safely returned to India after a tense few days in Dubai, where she was stranded due to the escalating conflict in the Middle East.Sindhu confirmed her return through a post on social media, sharing that she is back home in Bengaluru after...
‘Abdication, not neutrality’: Sonia Gandhi slams PM Modi’s silence on Khamenei assassination
PM Modi with Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran on 23 May 2016. Congress Parliamentary Party chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday sharply criticised the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government for its silence over the assassination of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, calling it an ‘abdication’ rather than neutrality.In an opinion piece published in...
‘From Gaza to Minab’: Hundreds of graves being dug in Iran after school strike
“From Gaza to Minab, innocents murdered in cold blood,” wrote Abbas Araghchi. Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi took to X to share a heart-wrenching photo of graves being dug after a joint military strike by US and Israel hit a girls school, killing more than 150.“Their bodies were torn to shreds,” Araghchi wrote in a...
Amazon gives update on fire at two datacentres in UAE and one in Bahrain, ‘admits’ drone attacks
Amazon acknowledged late Monday, March 3, that two of its data centers in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and a facility in Bahrain were damaged by drone strikes, taking the facilities offline. Amazon Web Services (AWS) update at 7:19 p.m. EST said that the outages were caused by drone strikes tied to the “ongoing conflict...
