World

Moscow: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday said that the much-anticipated Ukrainian counteroffensive has started, as evinced by their deployment of strategic reserves, but Russian troops are holding on to their...

Prague: Czech President Petr Pavel has signed a law that raises the country's annual defence spending to at least 2 per cent of the gross domestic product (GDP), his office said...

New Delhi: Indian-origin professor Joyeeta Gupta has been awarded the Spinoza Prize, the highest distinction in Dutch science, for her scientific work focusing on a "just and sustainable world". Gupta,...

United Nations: On a day that the Ukraine war took a turn for the worse, Russia's ally Belarus suffered a stinging defeat in the elections to the Security Council. Slovenia won...

Moscow: Russia's Ministry of Defence announced on Monday that its Pacific Fleet had commenced exercises in the Sea of Japan and the Sea of Okhotsk. "As part of the Pacific Fleet's...

Chengdu: Fourteen people were confirmed dead and five others remained missing following a mountain collapse on Sunday in Leshan City, southwest China's Sichuan Province, according to local publicity department. The collapse...

Melbourne: Indian-origin police officer Tanvir Brar, who was kicked out of a strip club in Australia for unprofessional conduct in 2019, has failed to get his job back, a media report...

Kiev: Amid Russia's ongoing full scale invasion on Ukraine, the war-torn nation's combined grain and oilseeds exports are expected to fall by a third this year, Agrarian Policy and Food Minister...

United Nations: The UN has allocated $18 million to aid more than 17 million people facing high-level food insecurity in Yemen, tHE Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said....

Moscow:  Russia has accused Ukraine of drone attack on Moscow on Tuesday morning, in which several buildings were hit, local media reported. "The Kiev regime launched a terrorist attack with...