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New Delhi: Toll booths across the country and the long wait there will soon become a thing of the past, Union minister Nitin Gadkari told parliament Thursday.Instead, there will be GPS-based system that will track cars and levy charges...

Moscow: US President Joe Biden must apologize and take back "boorish" allegations that Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin is a killer, a top Russian official said, a day after Moscow recalled its ambassador in protest.Biden's remark is a "watershed" in...

New Delhi: India on Thursday recorded 35,871 new COVID-19 cases, the highest single-day rise in over 100 days, which took the infection tally to 1,14,74,605, according to Union health ministry data. Registering an increase for the eighth consecutive day,...

Moscow: North Korea has been aware of Washington's attempts at contact since mid-February, but sees no reason to engage in dialogue until what it sees as hostile policies are dropped, Choe Son Hui, first vice minister of foreign affairs,...

Moscow: The attempts from the United States to put more pressure on China by visiting a number of its allies in Asia ahead of the scheduled bilateral meeting this week are useless, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said...

Tokyo: The organizing committee of the 2021 Summer Olympics and Paralympics in Tokyo on Thursday formally accepted the resignation offer of its creative director, Hiroshi Sasaki, in light of his ill-fated proposal for popular Japanese plus-sized comedian Naomi Watanabe...

Moscow: Edward Snowden, a fugitive former CIA contractor who exposed massive online surveillance by the United States in 2013, will apply for Russian citizenship soon, his lawyer said here on Thursday."The documents are ready," Anatoly Kucherena said, adding the...

Guwahati: The Congress Wednesday expressed amazement and ridiculed Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanat for his comment on 15th century Vaishnavite saint Srimanta Sankardeva to draw attention to the problem of infiltration in Assam, for which he blamed the...

Hartford: Two women who were working at the same restaurant for years and bonded over being adopted have learned that they are biological sisters after a recent DNA test confirmed the same.According to a CNN report, Cassandra Madison and...

New Delhi: The merger of public sector lenders into four larger and stronger banks was announced by the government in August 2019. Under which the Oriental Bank of Commerce (OBC) and United Bank of India were merged with Punjab...