International

Washington: The US wants India to support its efforts to realise an enduring and just peace for Ukraine, the State Department has said, highlighting bilateral cooperation with New Delhi on several key areas. The remarks by Vedant Patel, State Department's Principal Deputy Spokesperson, came Thursday...

Wellington: A global technology outage grounded flights, knocked banks and hospital systems offline and media outlets off air Friday in a massive disruption that affected companies and services around the world and highlighted dependence on software from a handful of providers. Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike said...

Washington: As President Joe Biden faces a growing drumbeat of pressure to drop his reelection bid, a majority of Democrats think his vice president would make a good president herself. A new poll from the AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found that about 6...

New Delhi: Former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump Friday recounted his experience of the assassination attempt on his life during a rally in Pennsylvania and said that God was on his side. While delivering his speech at the closing night of the...

Dhaka: At least 18 more people were killed and over 2,500 injured in Bangladesh Thursday, media reports said, as violence escalated in the capital Dhaka and elsewhere over student protests demanding quota system reform for government jobs, taking the toll to 25 since the protests...

Dhaka: The Bangladesh government Thursday expressed willingness to hold talks with the students protesting against the quota system in jobs after fresh violence erupted across the country as they attempted to enforce a nationwide shutdown over the issue. Authorities deployed Border Guard Bangladesh personnel across...

Seoul: South Korea's top court ruled Thursday that same-sex couples are eligible to receive the same health insurance benefits as heterosexual couples, a landmark verdict hailed by human rights groups. The Supreme Court said it ruled that the state health insurance agency's refusal to provide...

Milwaukee: Donald Trump takes the stage Thursday at the Republican National Convention to accept his party's nomination again and give his first speech since he was cut off mid-sentence by a flurry of gunfire in an assassination attempt at a rally in Pennsylvania. Trump's address...

Canberra: Australia's unemployment rate rose slightly to 4.1 per cent in June from 4 per cent in May, official labour force figures published by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) showed Thursday. The total number of employed Australians rose by 50,200 between May and June...

Dhaka: The Indian Embassy in Bangladesh Thursday issued an advisory urging Indian students and nationals residing in the country to restrict their outdoor movements in the wake of ongoing massive student protests throughout the country, which has resulted in at least six deaths so far....