London, March 3 With oil prices soaring and stocks tanking, the fast-evolving Iran war has cast a pall over the economic forecasts that British Treasury chief Rachel Reeves is set to unveil on Tuesday. Reeves had hoped her statement to the House of Commons would be a relatively low-key affair, with the forecasts showing the […]
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By Sajjad Hussain Islamabad, March 3 Pakistan security forces killed another 67 Afghan Taliban personnel in overnight operations, repulsing their attacks at 16 locations along the southwestern border early Tuesday, officials said. Information Minister Attaullah Tarar provided updates on the ongoing Operation Ghazab lil Haq, launched on Feb 26 in response to the Afghan Taliban […]
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Mumbai, March 3 More than 250 flights were cancelled at Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore and Chennai airports on Tuesday due to the Middle East conflict, officials said. For the fourth day, flight operations continued to be disrupted as airlines cancelled flights amid the escalating conflict involving the US, Israel and Iran. As many as 80 flights […]
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By Devarchit Varma Mumbai, March 3 Set for a third consecutive semifinal clash at the T20 World Cup, India and England won’t have any secrets to throw at each other here on Thursday, said Sam Curran, hoping for his side to pull off a “perfect game” after a topsy-turvy campaign so far.India and England have […]
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By Harinder Mishra Jerusalem, March 3 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday said that Israel and the US struck Iran because Tehran had restarted its nuclear programme and it would have gone “immune within months.” Netanyahu told Fox News early Tuesday that an attack against Iran was urgently needed because Tehran was building new underground […]
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Dubai, March 3 Airstrikes by the United States and Israel have killed at least 787 people in Iran since the start of the war, the Iranian Red Crescent Society said Tuesday. It offered the toll in a message on X. PTI
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Dubai, March 3 Airstrikes targeting an air base in southeastern Iran killed at least 13 Iranian troops there, local media reported. The semiofficial Tasnim news agency and the Hammihan daily newspaper reported the strike in Kerman, 800 kilometres (500 miles) southeast of Iran’s capital, Tehran. The Kerman Air Base is known to house military helicopters. […]
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New Delhi, March 3 The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on Tuesday postponed the class 10 and 12 board exams scheduled for March 5 in the Middle East region amid the Iran-Israel conflict, officials said. “Due to the current situation in parts of the Middle East—Bahrain, Iran, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and UAE, […]
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Dubai, March 3 As the war in the Middle East intensifies, US President Donald Trump said that the US has “the capability to go far longer” than its projected four-to-five-week time frame for its military operations against Iran. Across Tehran, the sound of explosions rang out through the night and into the early morning hours […]
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Dubai, March 3 The US Embassy in Saudi Arabia acknowledged coming under attack from Iranian drones Tuesday, urging Americans to avoid the diplomatic post for the time being. The embassy posted on X: “Avoid the Embassy until further notice due to an attack on the facility.” It said all appointments had been canceled. The Saudi […]
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