New York, November 20 (IANS): Kamala Harris has made history as the first woman to be the head of state of the most powerful nation – even if it was only for 85 minutes while President Joe Biden was incap
Islamabad, November 19 (IANS): Pakistan has categorically rejected the recently released report by the US State Department, in which Pakistan was re-designated as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC) for faili
New Delhi, November 19 (IANS): The Chinese military is now at or near the capability to invade Taiwan, according to a US Congressional report, the Daily Mail reported.
"The People's Liberation Army
Beijing, November 19 (PTI): China on Friday lashed out at US President Joe Biden for considering a diplomatic boycott of the forthcoming Winter Olympic Games over China's human rights abuses, saying Washing
New York, November 19 (PTI): The first confirmed case of symptomatic COVID-19 can be traced to a female seafood vendor at a wholesale food market in China's Wuhan, not an accountant who lived far away, acco
Washington, November 19 (IANS): A US House panel probing former President Donald Trump's administration's response to the Covid-19 pandemic has issued a subpoena to Peter Navarro, a former aide, asking
Seoul, November 19 (IANS): A healthy set of quintuplets has been born in South Korea for the first time in 34 years, doctors said on Friday.
A 30-year-old woman gave birth to four girls and one boy at the Se
New Delhi, November 18 (IANS): The detention of Zhang Zhan, the Chinese journalist jailed after reporting on the Covid pandemic in Wuhan, is intended as a "warning to others", her former lawyer said,
Beijing, November 18 (PTI): China on Thursday slammed the US for designating it along with Pakistan and others as 'countries of particular concern' for the violation of religious freedom and accused Was
Islamabad, November 18 (PTI): Sex offenders convicted of multiple rapes in Pakistan could face chemical castration after Parliament passed a new legislation that aims to speed up convictions and impose tougher
Washington/Seoul, November 18 (IANS): The US has designated North Korea as a state violator of religious freedom, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said.
North Korea is one of 10 countries designated as &quo
Kabul, November 18 (IANS): The Taliban-led government in Afghanistan has signed agreements with three leading aid agencies in a bid to support hundreds of thousands of displaced families ahead of the winter sea
Manila, November 18 (AP): Chinese coast guard ships blocked and sprayed a powerful stream of water at two Philippine boats carrying supplies to troops at a disputed South China Sea shoal, prompting Manila to or
New York, November 18 (AP): Two men convicted in the assassination of Malcolm X are set to be cleared after more than half a century, with prosecutors now saying authorities withheld evidence in the civil
Beijing, November 17 (AP): China and the US have agreed to ease restrictions on each other's journalists amid a slight relaxation of tensions between the two sides.
The official China Daily newspaper on
Beijing, November 17 (IANS): World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has said that the "scandal" of global Covid-19 vaccine disparity must stop, according to a rece
United Nations, November 17 (PTI): Terrorists enjoy free pass in Pakistan, which has an established history and policy of actively supporting them and holds the ignoble record of hosting the largest number of m
Washington/Beijing, November 16 (PTI): US President Joe Biden discussed with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping the importance of a "free and open" Indo-Pacific, and communicated Washington's cont
Beijing, November 16 (PTI): Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday questioned his US counterpart Joe Biden's initiative to rally democratic countries, saying democracy is not "mass produced" with
Beijing, November 16 (IANS): Global wealth tripled over the last two decades, with China leading the way and overtaking the US for the top spot worldwide, Bloomberg reported.
A report by McKinsey & Co. t