Anshula Kant, Managing Director of State Bank of India, has been appointed as MD and Chief Financial Officer of the World Bank.Ms Kant will be respons...
Incessant rain has claimed 17 lives in Nepal. Police said, six others are missing. In the capital Kathmandu, three persons were killed when the wall o...
Dubai: Iran called on Britain on Friday to immediately release an oil tanker that British Royal Marines seized last week on suspicion it was breaking ...
Islamabad: Pakistan will not open its airspace until India de-escalates, the country’s Aviation Secretary Shahrukh Nusrat told a parliamentary commit...
The Hague: Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte is visiting US President Donald Trump next week, amid reports that the Netherlands is considering an Americ...
Donald Trump expressed his mistrust of cryptocurrency Thursday, saying it was "not money" and warning that those wishing to join the trade would have ...
Turkey received the first batch of Russia's S-400 missile defence system on Friday, the defence ministry said, despite repeated warnings from its NATO...
Mahatma Gandhi was the spiritual leader of America's non-violence movement, Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi has said as she de...
The strategic partnership between India and the US is the 'mahagathbandhan' (grand alliance) that the world needs, Mastercard CEO and president Ajay B...
In Syria, more than 80 persons were killed in clashes between the Government and rebel forces in the northwest Hama region yesterday.Britain-based Syr...
Washington: The US federal budget deficit reached $747 billion in the first nine months of the fiscal year 2019, up by 23 per cent from the previous y...
A no-confidence motion against the Sri Lankan government was defeated in parliament by 27 votes. A total of 119 members voted against the motion ...
Lahore: At least 14 passengers were killed and 79 others injured on Thursday when an express train rammed into a stationery freight train in Pakistan'...
Beijing: Prosecutors in Shanghai have formally arrested two people over child molestation allegations, with state media identifying one as a prominent...
The US lawmakers Wednesday passed a bill aimed at lifting the present seven per cent country-cap on issuing Green Cards, a move which would benefit th...
Iran and Russia on Wednesday poured scorn on America's call for Tehran to adhere to limits in a 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, at a special meet...
EU president nominee Ursula von der Leyen said Wednesday she hopes Britain will abandon Brexit but warned London it must take responsibility for "sort...
The US House of Representatives has passed a bill aimed at lifting the present seven per cent country-cap on issuing Green Cards. The move will b...
UK ambassador to the US Kim Darroch has resigned following a row over leaked confidential memos, where the ambassador had described the president Trum...
French President Emmanuel Macron's top diplomatic adviser yesterday held high-level talks in Tehran aimed at saving the 2015 nuclear deal and easing t...
Islamabad: Terror group Al Qaeda's Chief, Ayman al-Zawahiri, has told "Mujahideen in Kashmir" to inflict "unrelenting blows" on the Indian Army and go...
Washington: President Donald Trump is directing the government to revamp the nation's care for kidney disease, so that more people whose kidneys fail ...
New York: US President Donald Trump cannot block his Twitter users since it violates the country’s Constitution, a federal appellate court ruled on Tu...
In Nigeria, supporters of an imprisoned Shiite cleric Ibrahim Zakzaky clashed with security forces around parliament building yesterday. The Islamic M...
India handed over 250 pre-fabricated houses to Myanmar in Maung Daw yesterday for use of displaced returnees. External Affairs Ministry said in a...
American lawmakers will decide on lifting the country-cap on issuing Green Cards through voting in Congress. The move may benefit thousands of highly-...
Pakistan's jailed former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's daughter Maryam Nawaz has been summoned by an anti-corruption court to appear before it on July...
European powers urged Iran to reverse its move to increase uranium enrichment, as a French envoy arrived in Tehran to boost efforts to save a landmark...
London: Britain’s caretaker Prime Minister Theresa May on Tuesday reiterated her backing for the UK’s Ambassador to the US at the heart of an embarras...
A group of citizens in Kuwait have planed to submit a request to the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labour next month to announce a “gay” society in t...
Which political party will win the Delhi Assembly polls to be held on Feb 5?