Agencies

Kabul: The Taliban announced on Sunday that they had captured two districts in Afghanistan's northeastern provinces of Takhar and Badakhshan.According to the movement, it seized Takhar's Warsaj district, including a local police headquarters and got hold of weapons, vehicles...

Beijing: Chinese astronauts Liu Boming and Tang Hongbo performed a spacewalk on Sunday, exiting the core cabin of China’s uncompleted Tiangong orbital station for the first time.The two astronauts exited the Tianhe core module to work on setting up...

Moscow: The Afghan Military killed 143 militants of radical movement Taliban and wounded 121 during operations in several Afghan provinces in the last 24 hours, the Afghan Defense Ministry said on Sunday."143 #Taliban terrorists were killed and 121 others...

Moscow: Iran denies US accusations that Tehran had a role in the attacks against US military bases in Iraq, Iran's Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations Majid Takht Ravanchi said in a letter to UN Security Council...

Moscow: The United States ramped up planning for an emergency evacuation of its embassy in Kabul, as the US troops continue their withdrawal from Afghanistan and concerns linger over the security in the conflict-torn country after their departure, the...

Moscow: A heat wave in Canada's westernmost province of British Columbia took the lives of over 700 in one week, Chief Coroner Lisa Lapointe said in a statement on public safety."Over the seven days from Friday, June 25 through...

New Delhi: Bharat Biotech's Covaxin is overall 77.8 per cent effective against Covid, the vaccine maker said today in a statement, citing the data from the third phase of clinical trials. The data, however, is yet to be peer-reviewed.The...

Tokyo: About 20 people are missing after a strong landslide in the Japanese city of Atami, in the central prefecture of Shizuoka, Japanese media reported on Saturday.The landslide, which was caused by heavy rains along the Pacific coast of...

New Delhi:  Uttarakhand Chief Minister Tirath Singh Rawat handed in his resignation to his party BJP Friday, barely four months after he took charge and just ahead of polls next year in the state.Tirath who had been in Delhi...

Ottawa: Protesters have torn down statues to Queens Victoria and Elizabeth II during an Every Child Matters rally in the Canadian city of Winnipeg, the CBS broadcaster reported.The rally was held on Thursday, which was also Canada Day....