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Stockholm: Alain Aspect from France, John F. Clauser from the United States and Anton Zeilinger from Austria won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work on quantum information science, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced on...

Tokyo: North Korea has fired a suspected missile over Japan, in what appears to be a deliberate escalation to get the attention of Tokyo and Washington.The ballistic missile travelled about 4,500 km before falling into the Pacific Ocean --...

Washington: At least 80 people were killed in the US states of Florida and North Caroline by Hurricane Ian which made landfall in southwestern Florida as Category 4 last week.At least 76 people in Florida had died due to...

Geneva: FIFA released a statement on Sunday from president Gianni Infantino, saying "this is a dark day" for football after a tragedy took place in a stadium in Indonesia.The tragedy occurred on Saturday night at the Kanjuruhan Stadium in...

Kiev: Nine countries of Central and Eastern Europe issued a joint statement on Sunday endorsing Ukraine for NATO membership."We Presidents of Central and Eastern Europe… firmly stand behind the 2008 Bucharest NATO Summit decision concerning Ukraine's future membership," the...

Jakarta: At least 129 people were killed and 180 others injured after a stampede and clashes at a football match in Indonesia's Malang, East Java province on Saturday evening, Indonesian police said on Sunday.Provincial police chief Nico Afinta said...

Colombo: The sky's the limit for the partnership between India and Sri Lanka, India’s High Commissioner here Gopal Baglay said in remarks published on Saturday.The diplomat made the remarks on Thursday as he emphasised the importance of the Indian...

Gandhinagar: Manipur’s Olympic silver-medalist Saikhom Mirabai Chanu bagged the gold medal in the women’s 49 kg weightlifting competition  at the ongoing National Games 2022 in Mahatma Mandir campus, here on Friday. Mirabai, who had claimed the Commonwealth Games gold medal...

Kiev: A total of 23 civilians were killed and 34 others were injured as a result of a strike by Ukrainian military on a convoy of cars on their way in the Zaporizhzhia region, Vladimir Rogov, a member of...

Washington: The United States is sanctioning the upper house of the Russian parliament as part of the Biden administration’s newest round of sanctions over the decision of several former parts of Ukraine to accede to Russia, the Treasury Department’s...