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Washington: Donald Trump has announced his candidature to run for the US presidency in 2024, and has filed the necessary paperwork with the US Federal Election Commission.The document filed by his team on Tuesday designated a principal campaign committee...

Bali: World leaders gathered on the side lines of the G20 summit here in Indonesia on Wednesday to discuss the Poland situation, and US President Joe Biden said it was “unlikely” that the missile was fired from Russia."I don't...

Bali: Prime Minister Narendra Modi along with other G-20 leaders visited and planted Mangroves at the ‘Taman Hutan Raya Ngurah Rai’ Mangrove forests on the sidelines of G-20 Summit here on Wednesday.Mangroves play an important role in global conservation...

Pyonyang: North Korea on Wednesday revealed the designs for a new stamp commemorating last month's launch of an intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) that flew over Japan for the first time in five years.The stamp, published on the website of...

Kolkata: Recognitions and honours are pouring in for the 40-year-old multiple Commonwealth Games medallist A. Sharath Kamal as he became the first paddler from India to get elected to the Athletes' Commission of the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF)...

New Delhi: Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting Anurag Thakur on Wednesday greeted the media fraternity on the occasion of National Press Day.Extending his warm wishes to all mediapersons, Thakur in a tweet wrote, "It is a day of...

Bali: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told world leaders at the G20 Bali summit that Russia's war must end now.He also pleaded for an extension of a significant grain export deal due to expire soon, BBC reports.Zelensky appeared in a...

New Delhi: Hockey India named the 23-member men's hockey team for the upcoming tour of Australia, beginning November 26 in Adelaide.India will play five matches against Australia as they prepare for the upcoming FIH Odisha Hockey Men’s World Cup...

Washington: The world's population is projected to reach 8 billion people on Tuesday and India is projected to surpass China as the world’s most populous country in 2023, according to World Population Prospects 2022, as per a report published...

Moscow: When Vladimir Kara-Murza announced he was returning to Moscow earlier this year, his wife Evgenia knew the risk but did not try to stop him. Amid the Ukraine war and mass protests, the opposition activist insisted on being...