Beijing, January 22 (PTI): Corruption remained the biggest risk for the ruling Communist Party of China, President Xi Jinping said on Friday, as he vowed to pursue his anti-graft efforts for a long period as pe
Kathmandu, January 22 (PTI): The unconstitutional dissolution of Nepal's Parliament by Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli has posed serious threats to the country's hard-earned federal democratic republic sy
Nairobi, January 22 (AP): The UN special representative on sexual violence in conflict says serious allegations of sexual violence have emerged in Ethiopia's embattled Tigray region, while women and girls f
BAGHDAD, JANUARY 22 (IANS): The Islamic State (IS) terror group has claimed responsibility for the twin suicide bombings at a crowded market area in Baghdad, that killed 32 people and injured 116 others, Iraqi
NEW DELHI, JANUARY 22 (IANS): History was made at the US presidential inauguration last night and it wasn't just about an outgoing President not attending the ceremony for the first time in 152 years. As Hs
UNITED NATIONS, JANUARY 22 (IANS): The UN General Assembly has adopted a resolution to promote a culture of peace and tolerance to safeguard religious sites all across the world.
The resolution adopted on Th
San Diego (US), January 22 (AP): In the days before Joe Biden became US president, construction crews worked quickly to finish Donald Trump's wall at an iconic cross-border park overlooking the Pacific Ocea
United Nations, January 22 (AP): The first-ever treaty to ban nuclear weapons entered into force on Friday, hailed as a historic step to rid the world of its deadliest weapons but strongly opposed by the w
Washington, January 22 (IANS): The total number of global coronavirus cases has topped 97.4 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 2.08 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University.
In its
Washington, January 22 (PTI): US President Joe Biden has signed a series of executive orders to address COVID-19 challenges, including making coronavirus test followed by quarantine mandatory for all travellers
Washington, JanUARY 21 (AP): President Joe Biden has confidence in FBI Director Chris Wray and plans to keep him in the job, the White House press secretary said Thursday.
FBI directors are given 10-year ter
Washington, January 22 (AP): Dr Anthony Fauci is back. In truth, the nation's leading infectious-diseases expert never really went away. But after enduring nearly a year of darts and undermining comments fr
Kathmandu, January 21 (IANS): The Covid-19 vaccines that India has granted to Nepal arrived in Kathmandu on Thursday.
Indian Ambassador to Nepal handed over the vaccines to Health Minister Hridesh Tripathi a
Jakarta, January 21 (AP): Indonesian authorities on Thursday ended the search for remaining victims and debris from a Sriwijaya Air jet that nosedived into the Java Sea, killing all 62 people on board.
Trans
Beijing, January 21 (PTI): China on Thursday announced its backing for United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres who is seeking a second five-year term as the chief of the world body.
Guterres,
NEW DELHI, JANUARY 21 (IANS): Twitter has locked the official account of China's Embassy in the US over a controversial post that referred to Muslim Uyghur women as "baby-making machines" prior to
TOKYO, JANUARY 21 (IANS): The number of foreign visitors arriving in Japan in 2020 plummeted 87.1 per cent from a year earlier, marking the largest decline in 56 years when comparable record keeping began, it w
NEW YORK, JANUARY 21 (IANS): A New York Army National Guard helicopter crashed while on a routine training mission, state Governor Andrew Cuomo said in a statement on Thursday.
"Tonight we are devastate
Baghdad, January 21 (AP): Twin suicide bombings ripped through a busy market in the Iraqi capital Thursday, killing at least 32 people and wounding dozens, officials said.
The rare suicide bombing atta
MUMBAI, JANUARY 21 (IANS): In a mega action against the drug cartel in Mumbai, the Narcotics Control Bureau has got the links of fugitive underworld don Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar after the agency busted a drugs fac