Tokyo, April 26 (IANS): Candidates backed by the Opposition parties won all three parliamentary elections, the results showed on Monday, dealing with a severe blow to Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga.
The outco
New York, April 26 (IANS): In a break from the America First policy, President Joe Biden's administration is "working round the clock" to immediately send India raw material needed for making Covi
Jakarta, April 26 (IANS): The wreckage of the missing Indonesian submarine was located on the sea floor off Bali Island with all 53 crew members aboard dead, top military officers said.
The Nanggala-402 subm
KOLKATA, APRIL 25 (IANS): Some internal memos of the Tatmadaw (Myanmar Army) indicate that the troops are under orders to ruthlessly stamp out protests and kill anyone opposing the law enforcers by force.
Th
Dhaka, April 25 (PTI): Bangladesh on Sunday closed its border with India for two weeks in view of the sharp increase in the coronavirus cases in the neighbouring country.
"We are closing it (border) for
YEREVAN, APRIL 25 (IANS): Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on Sunday announced his resignation to pave the way for scheduled snap parliamentary elections in June.
"In order to implement the decis
NEW YORK, APRIL 25 (IANS): Up to 20 per cent of all the groundwater wells in the world are at risk of going dry in the near future, warn environmental scientists.
Researchers from the University of Californi
BEIJING, APRIL 25 (IANS): China has named its first Mars rover 'Zhurong' after the traditional fire God, the media reported China National Space Administration (CNSA) as saying on Saturday China's S
Banyuwangi (Indonesia), April 25 (AP): Indonesia's military on Sunday officially said all 53 crew members from a submarine that sank and broke apart last week are dead, and that search teams had located the
DHAKA, APRIL 25 (IANS): Funded by Islamic forces, militant outfits Hefazat-e-Islam and Jamaat-e-Islami wanted to turn Bangladesh into a Taliban state like Afghanistan if they came to power, top Hefazat leaders,
Banyuwangi (Indonesia), April 25 (AP): Indonesian military chief Hadi Tjahjanto said the presence of an oil slick near the site where the submarine last dove Wednesday off the island of Bali was clear proof tha
ROME, APRIL 25 (IANS): Italy's coronavirus vaccine rollout hit a major milestone, though it appeared unlikely the country would reach its end-of-month target for daily vaccinations.
The country's Min
Kathmandu, April 25 (IANS): Nepali authorities have issued record number of expedition permits for Mt. Qomolangma, defying expectations of reduced number of permit issuance compared to past years amid Covid-19
Istanbul, April 25 (AP): Turkey's foreign ministry has summoned the US Ambassador in Ankara to protest the US decision to mark the deportation and killing of Armenians during the Ottoman Empire as genocide.
Baghdad, April 25 (AP): Iraq's Interior Ministry said Sunday that 82 people died and 110 were injured in a catastrophic fire that broke out in the intensive care unit of a Baghdad hospital tending to severe
Moscow, April 24 (IANS): Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree on countermeasures to "unfriendly actions" of foreign states amid an intensified diplomatic row with the US and some Europ
Jerusalem, April 24 (IANS): Israel's military said Saturday that it struck military sites in the Gaza Strip after at least 36 rockets were fired from the Palestinian enclave into southern Israel over the pa
Islamabad, April 24 (IANS): Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has said that he had asked the Pakistan Army to assist the police and law enforcement agencies in enforcing SOPs for curbing the spread of the coro
Washington, April 24 (PTI): The Biden administration has came under intense pressure from various quarters, including the powerful US Chambers of Commerce, lawmakers and eminent Indian-Americans, to ship AstraZ
Colombo, April 24 (PTI): Sri Lankan Police on Saturday arrested a former minister and his brother for allegedly aiding and abetting the suicide bombers responsible for the 2019 Easter Sunday attacks in which 25