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NEW DELHI: Eighteen states, including Maharashtra, Kerala and Telangana are under the scanner of the central agency for disease surveillance and prevention as these regions have added close to 200 cases of Covid-19 strain from the UK,…

NEW DELHI: Exiled journalists, human rights activists, and Uyghurs on Tuesday gathered at the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) headquarters in Paris to persuade the anti-terror financing organisation to place Pakistan on the blacklist.…

NEW DELHI: In an important discussion post the Biden administration assuming office, the Quad on Thursday reiterated importance of a ‘free and open Indo-Pacific’ and stressed the importance of a return to democracy in Myanmar. The…

ISLAMABAD: Internet services were hampered in Pakistan on Thursday as the country's telecom authority said one of its six international undersea cables developed a fault. The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) said the…

NEW DELHI: Britain's drug regulator is auditing manufacturing processes at Serum Institute of India (SII) which could pave the way for AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccine to be shipped from there to the UK and other countries, according to…

WASHINGTON: The United States will switch from observer to participant in the Facilitation Council of the COVAX vaccine distribution tool, said Colin McIff, a senior official at the US Department of Health and Human Services, on Tuesday.…

WASHINGTON: In its first response to the China-India border standoff, the Biden administration has voiced concern over Beijing's ongoing attempts to "intimidate" its neighbours and said it was closely monitoring the situation. A top…

YANGON: Myanmar's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been detained by the military, her party spokesman said early Monday. "We heard the President (Win Myint) and State Counsellor (Aung San Suu Kyi) have been detained in Naypyidaw...…

NEW DELHI: External affairs minister S Jaishankar on Wednesday held a telephonic conversation with his British counterpart Dominic Raab and discussed progress made on issues that figured during their extensive in-person talks last month.…

UNITED NATIONS: Amid a recent clash between Indian and Chinese troops along the border in Sikkim, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres hopes that tensions that exist between the two countries could be dialled down through dialogue, a…