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Beijing: China will impose sanctions on US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her close relatives in connection with her "provocative" visit to Taiwan, the Chinese foreign ministry said on Friday.The US official Pelosi dealt a serious blow to the...

Antananarivo: India is extending relief to drought-affected Madagascar as 5000 metric tons of rice is on its way to the east African Nation.Indian Ambassador Abhay Kumar held a press briefing today to highlight the progress made in bilateral...

Dhaka, Aug 6 (UNI) Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi is scheduled to reach here on Saturday on a two-day trip to discuss bilateral, regional, and global issues with the Bangladesh leadership.On the second day of the visit, he will...

New Delhi: Voting to elect a new Vice President of India got underway on Saturday in Parliament House. Prime Minister Narendra Modi was among the first to cast his vote. Ruling NDA's Jagdeep Dhankhar is taking on Opposition...

New Delhi: A total of 19,406 new cases of Covid-19 were reported in India, the Health Ministry said on Saturday.According to the bulletin issued by the Health Ministry, the total caseload rose to 4,41,26,994 while the death toll...

Khimki, Russia: The Khimki Court of the Moscow Region on Thursday sentenced US basketball player Brittney Griner to nine years in jail and imposed a 1 million rubles ($16,500) fine on her in a drug smuggling case, a Sputnik...

London: Tory leadership rivals Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss have set out competing plans to deal with the economic recession forecast by the Bank of England.During their latest TV debate, Sunak said Truss' "unfunded" tax cuts would pour...

Taipei: Taiwan Foreign Minister Joseph Wu minister while hailing the visit by US Speaker, Nancy Pelosi, as extremely significant, condemned the military exercises launched by China in response to America's third highest leader's visit.He called it "highly provocative and...

Dhaka: India and Bangladesh may reach a long-awaited agreement ahead of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's visit to New Delhi to share the Teesta river water.A meeting of the Joint River Commission (JRC) of Bangladesh and India is going to...

New Delhi: The Chinese PLA is employed for the construction of critical defense projects on behalf of the Pakistan Army in Balochistan, as well as in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, under the garb of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), top...