
The Kolkata Police have denied permission to the West Bengal unit of BJP to organise a marathon sit-in demonstration in Kolkata from February 27 to February 29 to protest against the alleged sexual harassment and violence against women in Sandeshkhali by some local Trinamool Congress leaders....

The Indiya Jananayaka Katchi (IJK) will contest the Lok Sabha elections in alliance with the BJP in Tamil Nadu....

Karnataka BJP has criticised the Congress over its plan to shift MLAs to a resort ahead of the Rajya Sabha elections for four seats scheduled to be held on February 27. ...

A South Korea-based company sanctioned by the US over its alleged connection to Russia is currently under investigation by authorities here, a Foreign Ministry official said on Sunday. ...

Geeta Batra, an Indian economist, has been named as the new Director at the Independent Evaluation Office of the World Bank's Global Environment Facility (GEF), making her the first-ever woman from a developing country to hold the coveted post. ...

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) on Sunday announced the death of a soldier killed in battle in south Gaza, raising the death toll of Israel's ground invasion into the Palestinian enclave to 239 since late October, media reported. ...

The Israel delegation led by Chief of Mossad David Barnea and Director of Shin Bet, Ronen Bar, are back in Jerusalem after marathon mediatory talks in Paris and Cairo with US, Qatar and Egyptian officials....

The body of leading Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny has been returned to his mother, his spokesperson has said....

The Italian government has announced a bilateral support agreement with Ukraine ahead of the Group of Seven (G7) leaders' meeting under Italy's presidency. ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced that he will seek Cabinet approval next week for a ground operation in the southern Gazan city of Rafah, where more than half of Gaza's population seeks shelter from Israel's bombings elsewhere....