Tokyo: IOC President Thomas Bach arrived in Tokyo on Thursday just as a ban on spectators at the Tokyo Olympics is likely after Japan Prime Minister Yoshihde Suga announced a state of emergency because of rising coronavirus infections in the capital.
New Delhi: In a setback to India, Britain's Cairn Energy Plc has secured a French court order to seize some 20 government properties in Paris to recover a part of the USD 1.7 billion due from New Delhi following an arbitration panel overturning levy of retrospective taxes.
Balendra Shah's RSP makes history, registers landmark victory in Nepal elections
Guarantee schemes model for empowering poor, Cong will return to power in 2028: Siddaramaiah
Middle East conflict: 100 flights cancelled at Delhi, Mumbai airports
Accused absconding in 2017 murder case arrested in Bengaluru
School teacher booked for slapping class 2 student in Bengaluru
90-year-old woman raped by four masked men in MP village; SIT launches probe
Rahul Gandhi unveils 5 poll guarantees for Kerala, targets PM Modi and CM Vijayan
Man dies as fishing boat capsizes off Kochi
40 cases registered under the COTPA, 295 people fined for smoking in public places in Bengaluru
'Nirbhaya Nisha' initiative for women safety at night to be implemented in Kerala on Mar 8
Crackers blast near manufacturing unit in Vitla; probe shows lack of permission for factory
UP CM Adityanath holds series of feedback meetings with RSS leaders ahead of assembly polls
London: The British government should back a political boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing to pressure the Chinese government over the genocide of Uyghurs and other ethnic groups in the northwest province of Xinjiang, an influential group of lawmakers said Thursday.
Washington: As many as 36 US states and Washington DC have filed a lawsuit against Google, alleging that the search engine giant's control over its Android app store violates antitrust laws.
Port-au-Prince (Haiti): Haitian President Jovenel Moise was assassinated in an attack on his private residence, the country's interim prime minister said in a statement Wednesday, calling it a hateful, inhumane and barbaric act."
Rescuers on Wednesday have found bodies of victims a day after a plane crash in a remote area in Russia's Far East, local authorities said.
Russia's state aviation agency said that wreckage of a plane that went missing Tuesday in the Far East region of Kamchatka has been found around five kilometres away from a runway in an airport on the Okhotsk Sea coast where it was supposed to land.
A plane with 28 people on board has gone missing in the Russian Far East region of Kamchatka on Tuesday, local officials said.
Manila: The Philippine defence secretary says at least 17 people have been killed and 40 rescued in the crash of a Philippine air force C-130 aircraft carrying troops in a southern province.
Tokyo: A gush of mud that swept away homes and cars in a resort town southwest of Tokyo left at least two people dead and about 20 missing, officials said Sunday.