Agencies

Tokyo: Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga will visit the United States, where he will meet US President Joe Biden, in the first half of April, Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato said on Friday.This will be the first foreign trip...

Silchar: Ahead of the assembly elections in Assam, unaccounted cash of over Rs 4 lakh was seized by a flying squad from two places in Cachar district, according to a release issued by the local administration on Thursday.During a...

United Nations: At least 67 people have been killed in Myanmar since the country’s military seized power on February 1 and hundreds more have been injured, United Nations spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said in a press briefing on Wednesday."The UN...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court said on Wednesday it would hear on March 17 a plea filed by the NHRC seeking release of its Senior Superintendent of Police Mahesh Bhardwaj, who has been promoted as DIG in his parent...

New Delhi: Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat has resigned as part of the BJP's course-correction ahead of polls next year. He had met with the BJP leadership yesterday in Delhi.Rawat, 60, handed in his resignation to Governor Baby...

Moscow: Kyaw Zwar Minn, Myanmar’s ambassador to the United Kingdom, on Monday called for the release of State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi and President Win Myint, and said that the current crisis in his native country should be...

Kolkata: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Sunday launched a blistering attack on West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, accusing her of "betraying and insulting" the people of the state who trusted she will bring about a change after the Left...

Hanumangarh: In what can be considered absolutely shocking, a liquor shop was put under the hammer in a village in Rajasthan's Hanumangarh district that started at 11 am and ended beyond midnight, with people quoting sky prices for it. It...

Guwahati: The Congress has announced the names of its candidates for 40 seats in the first of the three-phase election. The party has allowed all its MLAs to recontest in the Upper Assam region, which will vote on March...

Beijing: Beijing plans to send 12 people to space by 2023 to engage them in the construction of a Chinese orbital station, Yang Liwei, China's pioneer astronaut and currently the deputy chief engineer of the China Manned Space program,...