Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi will travel to Saudi Arabia to attend the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) summit, where the issue of the Palestine and Gaza crisis was to be discussed. Pics/AFP
11 November,2023 07:48 PM IST | Asif Ali SayedHours after an unannounced stop in Iraq, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Turkey in the early hours of Monday (local time) to hold a key diplomatic meeting, news reports said. Pics/AFP
06 November,2023 06:33 PM IST | Asif Ali SayedA suicide bomber detonated an explosive device in the heart of the Turkish capital, Ankara, on Sunday A second assailant was killed in a shootout with police, the interior minister said. The attack occurred hours before Parliament was set to reopen after its three-month summer recess with an address by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Pics/AFP (Text AP)
01 October,2023 07:00 PM IST | Asif Ali SayedSeveral world leaders, including British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and UN Secretary General Antonia Guterres, arrived in Delhi on Friday to attend the G20 summit, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi saying he looks forward to productive discussions with them over the next two days. Pics/PTI
08 September,2023 06:22 PM IST | Asif Ali SayedWater-dropping planes from several European countries joined hundreds of firefighters on Wednesday battling wildfires raging for days across Greece that left 20 people dead, while major blazes also burned in Spain's Tenerife and in northwestern Turkey near the Greek border (Pics/AFP)
24 August,2023 09:55 AM IST | ronak mastakarAs in many elections before, rumours of Recep Tayyip Erdogan's political demise turned out to be vastly exaggerated as the Turkiye's leader won the run-off elections for the country's presidency on Sunday. "The only winner today is Turkey,” he proclaimed while addressing his supporters in Istanbul after the victory. Photos: AP/PTI/AFP
29 May,2023 03:28 PM IST | EditorThe National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) teams along with the dog squad members have started to return to India after calling off the relief and rescue operations in earthquake-hit Turkey. The first team of 47 members of the NDRF returned to India on Friday after a 10-day-long operation. Pics/NDRF
17 February,2023 03:10 PM ISTThe catastrophic earthquake that razed thousands of buildings in Turkiye and Syria became one of the deadliest quakes worldwide in more than a decade and the death toll kept rising, crossing16000. A magnitude 7.8 earthquake in Nepal in 2015 killed more than 8,800 people. Rescue crews braved freezing overnight temperatures in quake-hit areas in both countries in the hope of reaching survivors and pulling more bodies from the rubble
09 February,2023 08:02 PM ISTTwo National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) teams comprising 101 personnel, left for Turkey from Hinden Airbase in Ghaziabad on Tuesday to aid rescue operations after a 7.8 magnitude quake struck Turkey and killed thousands of people. The Turkey-bound teams include five women rescuers, a doctor and paramedics. Pics/NDRF PRO
07 February,2023 04:35 PM ISTAt least 76 people have been killed across seven provinces in Turkey and 42 were reported dead in Syria in initial reports after a deadly earthquake struck 23 kilometers (14.2 miles) east of Nurdagi in Turkey's Gaziantep province on February 6. See pics Photo/AFP
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