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New Delhi: India's two-time Olympic medallist wrestler Sushil Kumar was arrested Sunday over alleged involvement in the murder of a fellow wrestler in Delhi. He had been evading arrest for nearly 20 days, Delhi police said.Sushil Kumar was arrested...

Diphu: Six Dimasa National Liberation Army (DNLA) militants were on Sunday killed in an encounter with security forces in West Karbi Anglong district, along the Assam-Nagaland border, a senior police officer said.Acting on a tip-off, a joint operation was...

Damascus: Thousands of people have marched out in the Syrian capital of Damascus in support of Syrian President Bashar Assad, a Sputnik correspondent reports."Today, students from the General Sports Union and Damascus residents gathered together, more than 8 thousand...

London: Russian naval vessels have been showing increased activity along Britain’s coastline, UK Defense Secretary Ben Wallace said in an interview with The Telegraph."We’re regularly visited by nosy Russian ships, and we are regularly visited now by a number...

Washington: President Joe Biden said he will not let his Justice Department seize journalists' telephone records as part of investigations into leaks of classified information to the media."It's simply, simply wrong. I will not let that happen," Biden said...

Washington: The United States agreed to end the flight range guidelines that limited South Korea's missiles to 800 kilometers (450 miles), South Korean President Moon Jae-in said in a joint press conference with President Joe Biden."It is also with...

New Delhi: At least 420 doctors, including 100 in Delhi, have succumbed to the coronavirus infection in the crippling second wave of the pandemic that has overwhelmed the hospitals and has kept the crematoriums blazing, said The Indian Medical...

Moscow: Russia strongly condemns Kiev's sanctions against Russian media, they contradict international law and European conventions in the field of human rights and fundamental freedoms, primarily freedom of the media, an informed source in Moscow told Sputnik.Earlier on Friday,...

Washington: The US has issued sanctions against 13 Russian vessels and three entities linked to the construction of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, the US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced on Friday.The entities in question...

Moscow: China will provide an extra $3 billion in international assistance over the next three years to support COVID-19 pandemic response and economic recovery in developing countries, President Xi Jinping announced on Friday."I wish to announce the following. China...