International

New York: US President Donald Trump has cited India’s requirement for voters to link their Aadhaar card with their Election Photo Identification Card (EPIC) as an example of a nation ensuring the integrity of its election and contrasted it with the lax US voter identification...

Seoul: Multiple wildfires raging across South Korea's southern regions for days have killed 26 people and destroyed more than 300 structures, officials said, as thousands of personnel and dozens of helicopters were mobilized again Thursday to battle the the county's worst-ever blazes. Korea Forest Service...

United Nations: India's efforts and progress in reducing preventable child deaths has been lauded as "exemplar" by the United Nations, which cited the example of health initiatives such as Ayushman Bharat, and said the country has saved millions of young lives through strategic investments in...

Toronto: Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney Wednesday said that US President Donald Trump's auto tariffs are a "direct attack" on his country and that the trade war is hurting Americans, noting that American consumer confidence is at a multi-year low. Trump said earlier Wednesday that...

Washington: US President Donald Trump Wednesday said he was placing 25 per cent tariffs on auto imports, a move the White House claims would foster domestic manufacturing but could also put a financial squeeze on automakers that depend on global supply chains. "This will continue...

Seoul: Firefighters were scrambling Wednesday to contain a wave of wildfires that tore through South Korea's southeastern region and killed at least 24, but strong winds and dry weather have continued to hamper efforts to limit the spread of the flames. Scores of firefighting helicopters,...

Warsaw: NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte warned Russia Wednesday that the alliance would always stand by Poland or any other member and that its reaction to an attack would be “devastating.” Rutte spoke during a visit to Warsaw, the Polish capital, in brief comments made alongside...

New Delhi: Trashing the latest United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) report, India Wednesday once again urged the US agency - "that should be designated as an entity of concern" - to desist from its agenda-driven efforts by misrepresenting facts and peddling a...

Dhaka: Muhammad Yunus, the Chief Advisor of the interim government of Bangladesh, left Dhaka Wednesday for a four-day official visit to China, during which he will hold talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing March 28. Foreign Affairs Advisor Touhid Hossain, Muhammad Fouzul (Power,...

Colombo: Sri Lanka Wednesday slammed the British government's unilateral action to sanction its three former military commanders, who led the campaign that crushed the LTTE in 2009, saying the move will complicate the national reconciliation process. A UK foreign office statement Monday said Sri Lanka's...