Beijing, December 19 (PTI): Chinese President Xi Jinping has appointed a new General as the Commander of the People's Liberation Army's Western Theatre Command which oversees the China-India border, ami
URUMQI, DECEMBER 19 (IANS): Chinese archaeologists examining an ancient tomb in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region have conjectured that the site was dedicated to the worship of the sun
Washington, December 19 (AP): Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says Russia was pretty clearly behind the gravest cyberattack against the United States on record, the first administration official to publicly tie
Washington, December 19 (PTI): Moderna has become the second company to get emergency use authorisation for its anti-coronavirus vaccine from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), a week after the one deve
SEOUL, DECEMBER 19 (IANS): A website dedicated to track events in North Korea said in its latest report that a "mysterious structure" has been set up in Pyongyang, which might be a part of the the rul
WASHINGTON, DECEMBER 19 (IANS): US Vice President Mike Pence announced that service members in the Space Force, which has assigned approximately 16,000 military and civilian personnel, will be called "guar
London, December 19 (PTI): The Oxford University vaccine against COVID-19 being produced by AstraZeneca is likely to get regulatory approval from the UK's independent regulator by the end of this year for a
Washington, December 19 (PTI): Urging the international community to demand transparency from China about the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, the US has accused Beijing of "obstructing" a WHO prob
Islamabad, December 18 (AP): Pakistan's information minister said Friday that Islamabad has started the legal process to reach an extradition treaty with Britain that would pave the way for the UK to hand o
UNITED NATIONS, DECEMBER 19 (IANS): UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for ensuring that migrants, irrespective of their legal status, are included in every country's response to the coronavir
GENEVA, DECEMBER 19 (IANS): The International Organization for Migration (IOM) said that there were at least 3,174 deaths on migratory routes across the world this year, compared to 5,327 in 2019.
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DHAKA, DECEMBER 19 (IANS): At least 12 people were killed when a train collided into a bus on Saturday morning at a rail crossing in Bangladesh's Joypurhat district.
Senior police official AKM Alamgir Ja
HA NOI, December 19 (IANS): Scientists released genetic results confirming a female turtle captured in October in Vietnam is definitively the near extinct Swinhoe's softshell turtle -- also known as the Yan
BEIJING, DECEMBER 19 (IANS): China's Chang'e-5 probe has retrieved about 1,731 grams of samples from the moon, according to the China National Space Administration (CNSA).
Zhang Kejian, head of the C
Washington, December 19 (IANS): The overall number of global coronavirus cases has topped 75.5 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 1.67 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University.
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Washington, December 19 (IANS) Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi has been vaccinated against the novel coronavirus by attending physician Brian Monahan at the Capitol.
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Beijing, December 19 (IANS): China is ready to continue to strengthen cooperation with the World Health Organization (WHO) to advance the global origin-tracing of the novel coronavirus, which was first reported
Moscow, December 19 (IANS): Russia has successfully launched its Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket, delivering 36 satellites from the UK-based OneWeb company into space.
The rocket blasted off from the Vostochny cos
Beijing/New York, December 18 (PTI): China on Friday said that any attempt by the US to subvert its political system and defame the Communist party is "doomed to fail", asserting that an attack on the
Washington, December 18 (PTI): An international team of scientists has collected the first possible radio signal from a planet beyond our solar system, emanating from an exoplanet system about 51 light-years aw