Mathura Boat Tragedy: Boat carrying devotees capsizes in Mathura; 10 bodies recovered, rescue ops on | India News

NEW DELHI: A boat carrying a group of devotees capsized in the Yamuna River in Uttar Pradesh’s Mathura on Friday afternoon leaving at least 10 people dead, while several others are feared missing. According to preliminary accounts from witnesses, the accident appears to have occurred after the boat collided with a pontoon bridge. Officials said…

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The week that was in international affairs

After a short break, welcome back to another edition of My Take 5, your weekly round-up of top international news. This week, we are covering the scheduled Iran-US ceasefire talks in Pakistan, the Orthodox Easter ceasefire in the Russia-Ukraine war, Moldova’s pullout from the Russia-led Commonwealth of Independent States, Taiwanese KMT chairwoman Cheng Li-wun’s trip…

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Ad-Vance party on thin ice: US Veep, tasked with salvaging war goals, heads to diplomatic frontlines in Pakistan

TOI Correspondent from Washington: US Vice President JD Vance is arriving in Pakistan on Saturday morning for what is being billed as a concerted diplomatic push to corral Iran and contain a widening conflict that has not gone according to Washington’s script. With a number of US analysts characterising the Trump-and-Netanyahu-led war on Iran as…

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Piyush Goyal holds talks with Kuwait, UAE, GCC to restore trade flows, energy supplies; exporters face disruption

Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal on Friday held separate discussions with his Kuwaiti and UAE counterparts, as well as with the GCC Secretary General, on containing disruptions in energy supplies and restoring trade flows at the earliest amid the ongoing West Asia crisis. India’s trade with West Asia has been disrupted severely because of…

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