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Moscow: Myanmar intends to expand its military cooperation with Russia, Min Aung Hlaing, the commander-in-chief of the country's military and the chairman of the State Administration Council, has said in an interview with Sputnik.Last week, Min Aung Hlaing attended...

Guwahati: The Assam government on Sunday announced that it will give Rs 2.5 lakh each to all widows, whose husbands died of COVID-19, if their family income is less than Rs 5 lakh.Under the new 'Chief Minister's COVID-19 Widows...

Itanagar: The Border Roads Organisation (BRO) on Saturday tendered an unconditional apology for erroneously showing Kimin, where Defence Minister Rajnath Singh came to inaugurate 12 roads last week, as part of Assam though it belongs to Arunachal Pradesh, the...

Moscow: London's actions during the incident with the UK destroyer Defender could lead to an armed confrontation, Russian Ambassador to the United Kingdom Andrei Kelin said on Saturday."The nightmare is that they try to bolster a political stance with...

Rome: Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi on Friday did not rule out that Russia's coronavirus vaccine Sputnik V might never be approved by the European Medicines Agency."We have zeroed in on specific vaccines that are in use and concluded...

Dushanbe: Tajikistan has put its armed forces stationed on the border with Afghanistan on high alert amid the deteriorating security situation in the neighboring country, the Defense Ministry told Sputnik on Friday."Troops of Tajikistan's Defense Ministry, stationed on the...

Moscow: Several military posts of the Malian Armed Forces in the village of Boni have been simultaneously attacked by militants, with six soldiers killed and one more injured, the military said.On Friday, in a separate incident, an explosives-laden car...

Mumbai: The police said Friday that around 2,000 people were injected with fake COVID-19 vaccines in Mumbai, Maharashtra, and another 500 -- some of them disabled -- might have suffered the same fate in West Bengal's Kolkata.Vaccination rates rose...

Beijing: China on Friday operationalised its first fully electrified bullet train in the remote Himalayan region of Tibet, connecting the provincial capital Lhasa and Nyingchi, a strategically located Tibetan border town close to Arunachal Pradesh, the PTI reported.The 435.5-km...

Washington: The US Senate passed legislation to establish a no-first-use policy in the United States in regards to nuclear weapons.The Senate on Thursday passed the No First use Act by unanimous consent.The bill is authored by Senator Elizabeth Warren...