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New Delhi: Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri and Deputy National Security Advisor (NSA) Pawan Kapoor will visit Washington soon at the directive of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, top sources revealed Sunday. The visit, which could take place next week, comes against the backdrop of US President...

New York: Congress Lok Sabha MP, Shashi Tharoor, began Saturday the "peace mission” with an all-party team of MPs to proclaim "the message that we will not be silenced by terrorism". "Carrying forth to the world India's strong message of zero-tolerance against terrorism! All-Party Delegation,...

New Delhi: The Indian Coast Guard (ICG) is on high alert for pollution response efforts following the sinking of the Liberian-flagged container vessel MSC ELSA 3 (IMO No. 9123221) Sunday off the coast of Kochi. The 184-metre-long vessel sank at around 0750 hours due to...

New Delhi: The Election Commission of India (ECI) has announced the schedule for by-elections to five Assembly constituencies of Gujarat, Kerala, Punjab and West Bengal. The polling date for the five constituencies is June 19, and the date of counting of votes is June 23....

Kyiv: Russia and Ukraine exchanged hundreds more prisoners Saturday as part of a major swap that amounted to a rare moment of cooperation in otherwise failed efforts to reach a ceasefire. The exchange came hours after Kyiv came under a large-scale Russian drone and missile...

Moscow/Tokyo/Manama: All party delegations from India to Russia and Japan Saturday concluded their visits with ‘constructive meetings’ with diplomatic leaderships discussing global fight against terror as a third similar team reached Bahrain to highlight New Delhi's response to cross-border radicalism. The three delegations that exchanged...

Dhaka: Confronting a major political crisis after a chaotic last few months, the interim government in Bangladesh, led by Muhammad Yunus Saturday blamed ‘defeated forces’ and ‘foreign conspiracy’ for obstructing the normal functioning environment and creating confusion and suspicion among the public. Yunus chaired a...

New Delhi: The Elon Musk-run social media platform X Saturday suffered an outage globally, including in India, as users were unable to load new posts and were unable to login. According to outage tracking website Downdetector, thousands of users struggled to access X webpages, as...

New Delhi: Showering praise on Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Saturday showcased Andhra Pradesh’s reforms and growth story at the 10th NITI Aayog Governing Council Meeting, an official said. “All states should examine and study the reforms of Andhra Pradesh. There...

Thane: A COVID-19 patient died while eight new cases of the viral infection were reported in the city Saturday, the Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) said. There are a total of 18 active COVID-19 patients in the city, it said, adding that only one of them...