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Nawaz Sharif emphasised that the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party headed by Imran Khan has failed to meet expectations of people as their only focus is on protests and organising street riots.

Overwhelmed by intractable conflicts, the world organisation observed Mahatma Gandhi’s birth anniversary as the International Day of Nonviolence, looking for glimmers of hope in the leader’s vision.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has expressed "deep appreciation" for India and other countries contributing troops to the peacekeeping operation in Lebanon where they face dangers from a growing conflict between Israel and Hezbollah.

Minister of Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal and his US counterpart Gina Raimondo co-chaired the 6th meeting of the US-India CEO Forum, which is the highest platform for discussing trade and commerce between the two countries.

External Affairs Minister (EAM) S. Jaishankar held a "productive" meeting with US National Security Advisor (NSA) Jake Sullivan on Wednesday.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni will on Wednesday evening, India time, host a call of Group of Seven (G7) leaders on the worsening of the crisis in the Middle East following Iran's attack on Israel on Tuesday night.

Israel on Wednesday declared UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres persona non grata and banned him from entering the country for his failure to "unequivocally condemn" Iran's missile attack.

US President Joe Biden has directed American forces to aid Israel's defence against Iran, which launched missile attacks against the Jewish state.

Media reports, citing a statement from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), confirmed that "dozens" of missiles have been launched towards Israel. The IRGC has also threatened another attack if Israel responds.

National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval on Tuesday called on French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris, reiterating India's commitment to implement the Horizon 2047 roadmap between the two long-standing strategic partners in the Indo-Pacific.

Reports suggest that separate briefings will also be given by security and intelligence agencies, including Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), Intelligence Bureau (IB) and Military Intelligence (MI) regarding the current security situation in KP and Balochistan.

Azma Bokhari, the Information Minister of Pakistan Punjab's provincial government, on Tuesday lashed out at Barrister Saif, the Information Advisor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province, for making "false claims and accusations" against Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif.

Multiple cases of gang rape of teenage girls and boys are being reported from different parts of Pakistan, involving not just miscreants but also police officers who have been found guilty of gang-raping, raping and sexually assaulting minors.

In the early hours of Tuesday, massive Israeli strikes targeted the southern suburbs of Beirut following the initiation of "limited" and "localised" ground operations in the Lebanese capital, according to local media reports.

Noting that the injured were receiving free treatment, Tiwari said the government has expedited the distribution of relief materials, including food, to those displaced in the disasters sparked by continuous rains on Friday and Saturday, Xinhua news agency reported.

External Affairs Minister (EAM) S. Jaishankar is set to meet US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday, where a range of bilateral and global issues will be on the agenda.

The attacks come after an air strike on Beirut's densely populated southern suburbs on Friday killed Hassan Nasrallah, the head of Lebanon's Hezbollah group which has engaged in cross-border fire with Israel for almost a year.

The NASA-SpaceX mission safely reached orbit, after it was successfully launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. This mission is significant as it marks the first human spaceflight to launch from Space Launch Complex-40.

Earlier in the day, the Israel Defense Forces said it successfully intercepted a surface-to-surface missile launched from Yemen, which triggered air raid sirens across central Israel, including in Tel Aviv, as reported by Xinhua news agency.

According to a Nepal police statement, almost all the highways, including those connecting the rest of the country with the capital city of Kathmandu, had been obstructed due to the disasters.

Following the death of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in a precision strike by Israeli Defence Forces (IDF), Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a warning to Iran's Ayatollah regime and asserted that those who target Israel will face consequences and that no location in Iran or the Middle East is beyond Israel's reach.

While amplifying the voice of the Global South, External Affairs Minister (EAM), S. Jaishankar, presented India's social and economic "leapfrogging" as a model for the Global South to "provide hope and rekindle optimism" amid the gloom enveloping the world.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has warned the West of the danger of trying to "fight to victory with a nuclear power" like Russia and told the United Nations that it was senseless to ignore alternatives to Ukraine's peace proposals.

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar delivered a stern warning on Saturday to Pakistan that cross-border terrorism will face retaliation, saying that Islamabad is facing “karma” for the terrorist attacks it launched on others.

US President Joe Biden on Saturday welcomed the killing of Hezbollah leader Hasan Nasrallah as “a measure of justice for his many victims” and called for Israel and Lebanon to conclude ceasefire negotiations.