The latest Israeli missile attack on military facilities in the capital Damascus was launched on Wednesday, according to the Syrian army, gravely hurting a soldier.
An army statement said the missiles were fired from the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, hitting sites southwest of Damascus.
It also mentioned that part of the missiles was intercepted by the Syrian air defence system, according to the Xinhua news agency.
Due to the Bangladeshi Eid festival, Indian Railways has decided to temporarily halt the Mitali Express (13132/131131) service between New Jalpaiguri in West Bengal and Dhaka Cantonment in Bangladesh.
As a result, the New Jalpaiguri to Dhaka Mitali Express route would stay cancelled beginning on June 25, June 28, and July 2, 2023.
The Dhaka to New Jalpaiguri Mitali Express train trip, scheduled to begin on June 26, June 29, and July 3, 2023, will remain cancelled. After Bangladesh’s Eid festival is ended, Mitali Express will shortly resume its regular runs.
Mount Etna, the most active volcano in Europe, erupted on Sunday. As a result, ash spread across the eastern Sicilian city of Catania.
Following the volcanic explosion, flights at the Sicilian airport had to be halted. The National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology of Italy (INGV) said that hazy conditions on a rainy day made it difficult to see the eruption.
According to Catania Airport, flight operations had been temporarily halted because of the ash fall.
On the edge of the G7 summit in Hiroshima, Japan, on Saturday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for the first time since the Russian invasion.
Described as an “issue of human values,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy that India will make every effort to stop the conflict in Ukraine.
The meeting began with Modi noting that he had spoken to Zelenskyy on the telephone over the past one-and-a-half years, but that they would meet in person after the COP26 conference in Glasgow in late 2021.
In addition to India’s national security advisor Ajit Doval, the Prime Minister’s Office shared photographs of the meeting.
Kami Rita Sherpa, world-renowned Nepalese Mountaineer, and 27th Everest conqueror, regained his title on Wednesday.
The 53-year-old tour guide was, according to Nepal’s tourist ministry, at an elevation of 8,848.86 meters on Wednesday at 8:30 a.m. He once more broke the record for most consecutive ascents of Mount Everest.
He is unharmed and secure. Pasang Dawa, a Nepalese Sherpa guide, climbed the mountain for the 26th time on Sunday, equaling his record.
Since his initial ascent of Everest in 1994, Kami Rita has nearly annually ascended the peak.
Since Imran Khan, a former prime minister, was detained on May 9, there has been turmoil in Pakistan. Shah Mehmood Qureshi, a former foreign minister and close ally of Imran Khan, was detained by police on Thursday in the midst of a deteriorating crisis and political unrest in Pakistan.
Imran Khan was previously detained by the anti-corruption organization for eight days on remand by a special court on Wednesday. The army has been stationed in three provinces besides the capital, Islamabad, where protests are still taking place.
Over 1,650 protesters have been detained by the Punjab Police for vandalizing public and private property throughout the province.
On Wednesday, supporters of Imran Khan stormed Shahbaz Sharif‘s home in Lahore. The Prime Minister’s mansion in Model Town Lahore was attacked by approximately 500 miscreants from the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party early on Wednesday, according to the police, who then set fire to parked cars there.
Around six in the morning on Friday, Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, experienced strong earthquake tremors. On the Richter scale, it registered as having a 4.9 intensity.
The earthquake’s epicenter was only a few kilometers from Dhaka. According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), the earthquake had a magnitude of 4.3 on the Richter scale and had its epicenter 10 km beneath the surface of the Earth, close to Dohar Upazila in the Dhaka Division.
According to prosecutors cited in a media report, a 40-year-old Sikh priest and teacher has been accused in Canada’s British Columbia province of six charges of sexual assaults against children.
According to the CBC Lite channel, Bhupinder Singh Sonu was charged with three charges each of sexual interference and sexual exploitation involving three different victims when he made his first appearance at Surrey Provincial Court on Tuesday.
To attend the conference of the defence ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), Chinese Defence Minister General Li Shangfu will be arriving in Delhi on April 28.
After the ongoing standoff between the forces of India and China in eastern Ladakh since May 2020, his visit is regarded as being very significant.
Today marks the opening of the SCO meeting in Goa. It is attended by the defence ministers of every SCO member state. General Shangfu is anticipated to talk about the state of the world and the area, as well as matters like security and defence, during the meeting.
The Sudan scenario is getting worse due to the ongoing civil war between the army and paramilitary groups there. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has voiced worry for the trapped Indians in Sudan such a predicament. PM Modi convened a high-level meeting for this on Friday, April 21.
According to a statement from the Prime Minister’s Office, PM Modi gave the order to be vigilant in Sudan, closely watch the developments, and assess the security of Indian nationals.
The PM was directed to create an emergency plan for the evacuation of Indian citizens from Sudan and to make quick adjustments to their security and alternative options.
More than 3000 Indians are stranded in Sudan right now. They have difficulty being evacuated due to conflict in Khartoum.
