Despite the coronavirus pandemic, more people were displaced worldwide last year than ever before. A total of 82.4 million were driven from their homes by conflict, persecution and violence in 2020, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) reported in Geneva on Friday. That was twice as many as 10 years...
BSP chief Mayawati on Friday said the Samajwadi Party's decision to contest the next Uttar Pradesh assembly polls with the help of smaller parties reflects its "helplessness" as major parties have been avoiding it due to their "bitter" experience.
Samajwadi Party supremo Akhilesh Yadav has ruled out an alliance with...
Five years ago Wednesday, Britons voted in a referendum that was meant to bring certainty to the UK's unsettled relationship with its European neighbors.
Fat chance.
Voters' decision on June 23, 2016 was narrow but clear: By 52% to 48%, they chose to leave the European Union. It took over four...
India's Ambassador to the US Taranjit Singh Sandhu on Thursday interacted with White House fellows and discussed with them the intricacies of diplomacy and the relationship between the world's oldest and largest democracies.
Sandhu, in a tweet, said "an enjoyable and substantial interaction" with the White House fellows at Eisenhower...
The National Financial Prosecutor’s Office (PNF) of France has appointed a judge to investigate “corruption” and “favouritism” suspicions in the 2016 multi-billion dollar deal with India for the purchase of 36 Rafale jets, French media reports said.
In a late night report filed Saturday by French investigative website Mediapart, it said...
India on Monday successfully test-fired its new generation nuclear-capable Agni Prime missile from a defence base off Odisha coast, DRDO sources said.
The surface-to-surface ballistic missile has a range of 1000 to 2000 km, it said.
The sleek missile of the Agni series was test-fired from a mobile launcher off the...
Senior BJP leader Kavinder Gupta on Saturday said the reported decision of former chief ministers Mehbooba Mufti and Omar Abdullah of making their participation in assembly election conditional will be a great disservice to people of Jammu and Kashmir .
According to media reports, NC leader Omar Abdullah and PDP...
A large group of women can be seen waiting with water vessels on the footpath at Vivekanand camp in South Delhi’s Chanakyapuri area in the video shared by news agency ANI and immediately as the New Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC) water tanker arrives, a few of them climb atop...
NEW DELHI: The Laxmi Nagar main market and some nearby marketplaces have been closed by the east Delhi district administration till July 5 following violation of Covid protocols there, officials said on Wednesday.
Markets in Vijay Chowk, Subhash Chowk, Jagatram Park and Guru Ramdas Nagar have also been mentioned in...
Haryana government announced the extension of the lockdown in the state till June 21, 2021. However, due to a sharp decline in the number of positivity rate, as well as the number of positive cases, more relaxations have been allowed in the state.The state has termed this COVID-19 lockdown...
