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Mamallapuram: Indian women’s team scripted history at the 44th Chess Olympiad by winning the country’s first-ever medal in the women’s section while the men claimed their second bronze medal of the prestigious event on Tuesday.India A team, comprising...

New Delhi: India registered 16,047 new Covid-19 cases, the Health Ministry said on Wednesday.According to the bulletin issued by the Health Ministry, the total caseload rose to 4,41,90,697 while the death toll rose to 5,26,772 as 54 more...

Tokyo: Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida reshuffled his cabinet and the executive line-up of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) on Wednesday as the administration faces slipping public support.According to the line-up, Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi, Finance Minister...

Dhaka: Subsequent to the assurance given by the Foreign Minister of China Wang Yi during his visit to Bangladesh on August 6-7, the Chinese Embassy in Dhaka started issuing visas to Bangladeshi students on Tuesday. The Chinese Embassy issued a...

Bamako: Mali received several military planes and helicopters from Russia during an official ceremony on Tuesday, a Sputnik correspondent reported.Mali received L-39 and Su-25 fighter jets as well as Mi-24P and Mi-8 attack helicopters and CASA C-295 tactical transport...

Mar-a-Lago(US): Former US President Donald Trump compared the FBI's "raid" on his Florida home to the Watergate scandal amid the January 6 Capitol attack hearing underway while US national security experts called the search "unprecedented".Trump said FBI agents on...

New Delhi: A total of 12,751 people have tested positive for Covid-19 in India, the Health Ministry said on Tuesday.According to the bulletin issued by the Health Ministry, the total caseload rose to 4,41,74,650 while the toll touched...

Washington: The administration of US President Joe Biden announced that the United States will provide Ukraine with 1 billion US dollars worth of additional security assistance, the largest one-time weapons package since the beginning of the Russia-Ukraine conflict.According...

Moscow: Russia has temporarily withdrawn its facilities from inspections under the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START), the country's foreign ministry said in a statement Monday."Russia officially informed the United States ... that our country was temporarily...

Beijing: China rejected on Monday Japan’s accusations of firing missiles into its exclusive economic zone during an exercise off Taiwan, saying they were Chinese waters."We firmly reject Japan’s false and ungrounded criticism," Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said during...