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Washington: The Biden administration will resume the annual summit with leaders from 574 US tribes this fall to hold high-level talks on key issues, the White House said in a press release."White House today announced that it will hold...

New Delhi:  Delhi on Friday logged 348 Covid-linked deaths - its highest-ever single-day spike in the death count. The city also reported 24,331 new coronavirus cases amid the rapid second wave of the pandemic, the NDTV  reported.The national capital...

Guwahati: The Assam government on Friday revised its discharge protocol for COVID-19 patients superseding the earlier notification on it issued in July last year, an official release said.The revised discharged protocol is aligned with the guidelines on the three-tier...

Washington: Sixty per cent of the US public believe police should be held more accountable for mistreating African-Americans and say President Joe Biden is doing too little to reform law enforcement procedures, a new poll revealed on Friday.Confidence that...

Aizawl: Mizoram has not reported any case of new COVID-19 variants till date, an official said on Friday.The Mizoram government has sent 326 samples of COVID- 19 infected positive patients to National Institute of Biomedical Genomics (NIBMG) in West...

New Delhi: A man in a village in Rajasthan's Nagaur district hired a helicopter to bring home his newborn daughter from the house of her maternal grandparents on Wednesday.Hanuman Prajapat's wife Chuki Devi gave birth to their daughter, Riya,...

Moscow: Russian troops that were engaged in the surprise combat readiness check in the country's south and west start returning to their permanent bases, the defense ministry said on Friday."Military units and formations are marching to railroad stations and...

Tokyo: Japan's Tokyo and the western prefectures of Osaka, Kyoto and Hyogo will likely be placed under a state of emergency from Sunday to May 11, which would cover the Golden Week string of national holidays, amid rising COVID-19...

Moscow: The Russian Foreign Ministry on Thursday demanded the Czech embassy in Moscow reduce the number of employees shortly after Prague made a mirror-like decision.Earlier in the day, the Czech Foreign Ministry announced that it would reduce and put...

Washington: US Ambassador to Russia John Sullivan has arrived in Washington after the Russian Foreign Ministry's recommendation to return to the United States for consultations, a Sputnik correspondent reported.The plane with Sullivan landed at the Dulles International Airport."It was...