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Los Angeles: Twitter says it will inform its staff about whether they will be laid off following the firm's takeover by Elon Musk.In an internal email, the social media company said the cuts are "an effort to place Twitter...

Islamabad: At least five people, including Pakistan's former prime minister and chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) Imran Khan, were injured on Thursday after his political convoy was shot at in the eastern Punjab province.The PTI Secretary General Asad...

Visakhapatnam: Indian Naval Ships Shivalik and Kamorta have arrived at Yokosuka, Japan for participating in the International Fleet Review (IFR) scheduled at Sagami Bay Off Yokosuka on November 6.The participating Indian Naval Ships, which reached Wednesday, are indigenously designed...

Kolkata: City's premier hospital -Belle Vue Clinic - has introduced an advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based contactless monitoring gadget called " Dozee" to detect and record all vital information of a patient without contacting his/her body, which the medics claimed...

Tokyo: North Korea on Thursday fired an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) designed to hit targets on the other side of the world and also Japan.It flew for about 760km and reached a height of around 1,920 km, said South...

London: North Korea is deliberately ramping up tensions with its neighbors. Analysts think it is building to something bigger, such as a nuclear test, or a full long-range ballistic missile test out into the Pacific, or both, the BBC...

Seoul: North and South Korea fired a number of missiles into waters near each other's coasts in a marked escalation of hostilities on Wednesday.The North launched its most missiles in a single day - at least 23 - including...

Manila: Philippine President Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos on Wednesday placed four regions of the Southeast Asian country under a state of calamity due to the severe tropical storm Nalgene.Marcos signed the document to put Calabarzon, Bicol Region, Western Visayas, and...

Tokyo: Japan has begun rolling out a partnership certificate scheme to same-sex couples -- allowing them to be treated as married couples for certain public services for the first time, but falling short of marriage equality.Some hope this may...

Manila: At least 98 people have died in the severe tropical storm that battered the Philippines over the weekend, triggering flash floods and landslides in many parts of the Southeast Asian country, the government said on Monday.The National Disaster...