Beijing: Former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin, who led China after the Tiananmen massacre in 1989 and was the first Chinese head of state to visit India in 1996, passed away in Shanghai on Wednesday, Chinese state media announced. He was...
West Bengal chief minister and Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday tried her hand at driving a boat during a visit to the villages in the North 24 Parganas. The TMC tweeted a video of the same wherein the...
China on Wednesday said it was opposed to the joint Indo-US military exercises being held near the Line of Actual Control (LAC), asserting that it violates the spirit of the two border agreements signed between New Delhi and Beijing.
The...
At least 15 people were killed and 27 others injured in an explosion in Aybak city in the center of Afghanistan's Samangan province on Wednesday, local television channel Tolonews reported.
A Taliban official said that at least 10 students were...
At least 20 tornadoes hit the southern United States on Wednesday, cutting power and damaging homes, the National Weather Service said, urging residents to seek shelter.
Tornadoes struck the states of Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama, damaging roads, downing trees and...
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday condemned Russia's attacks on Ukraine's civilian infrastructure as "barbaric".
"Over the past several weeks, Russia has bombed out more than a third of Ukraine's energy system, plunging millions in the cold," Blinken...
West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee met with leader of the opposition Suvendu Adhikari on Friday, for the time since her former aide quit the Trinamool Congress and joined the BJP ahead of the 2021 state assembly election.
Reports suggest Banerjee invited Adhikari to...
Bill Gates' daughter Jennifer Gates is expecting her first baby with husband Nayel Nassar. The 26-year-old, who is the daughter of Bill Gates and his ex-wife Melinda, announced the news on Instagram.
In the photo, Jennifer Gates was seen posing...
King Charles recalled Nelson Mandela's "special" nickname for his late mother during South Africa president Cyril Ramaphosa's state visit to Buckingham Palace. Cyril Ramaphosa, who worked as Nelson Mandela's secretary-general in the African National Congress, arrived in the UK...
Russia's justice ministry added Facebook-owner Meta Platforms to its register of extremist organisations on Friday, the Kommersant newspaper reported.
A Russian court earlier this year ruled Meta had engaged in "extremist activity". Moscow has restricted access to Facebook and Instagram...
