Anshu, Sonam win Tokyo Olympic quota in wrestling
NEW DELHI: Indian female wrestlers Anshu Malik and Sonam Malik on Saturday made the country proud as they booked spots...
‘El Clasico is the biggest match in world football’
BARCELONA: Barcelona’s Director of Youth Football Patrick Kluivert has said that El Clasico is the “biggest match in world football.”...
Hafeez becomes second Pak PLAYER to play HUNDRED T20s
JOHANNESBURG: Mohammad Hafeez on Saturday added another feather to his illustrious cap as he became the second Pakistan cricketer and...
Four TMC workers killed in Cooch Behar firing
CM Mamata Banerjee blames Amit Shah, calls him the main ‘conspirator’. Amidst the voting for the fourth phase of...
RCB bank on the Maxwell marvel
Royal Challengers Bangalore will be aiming to go one step forward and clinch their first IPL title in the upcoming...
Myanmar protesters defy crackdown, five killed
YANGON: Myanmar security forces opened fire on pro-democracy protests on Saturday killing at least five people, a protester and media...
Iran and China sign 25-year cooperation agreement
The accord brings Iran into China’s Belt and Road Initiative, a multi-trillion-dollar infrastructure scheme intended to stretch from East Asia...
Ind vs Eng, 5th T20I: Kohli, Rohit and Pandya put on masterclass as hosts post 224/2
Ahmedabad: Skipper Virat Kohli’s decision to promote himself as an opener worked wonders in the fifth and final T20I against...
SIX PROTESTORS killed in CLASHES in Myanmar
Saturday’s protests erupted after posters spread on social media urging people to mark the death anniversary of Phone Maw, who...
Thousands protest Myanmar coup despite internet ban
In an upwelling of anger in the country’s largest city protesters chanted, ‘Military dictator, fail, fail; Democracy, win, win’. Thousands...
WHO inks deal for delivery of Pfizer vaccines in poor countries
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday announced that it had reached an agreement with Pfizer/BioNTech for 40 million doses...
Retired doctors and more syringes: Biden lays out plan to get America vaccinated
WASHINGTON: U.S. President-elect Joe Biden on Friday said he would order increased production of syringes and other supplies to ramp...
U.S. state capitals fear armed protests
FBI has warned police agencies of possible armed protests at all 50 state capitals, continuing through President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration....
‘Amid pandemic, financial services sector saw an extraordinary 120% growth in 2020’
The year of 2020 began with a series of uncertainties but soon businesses started to slowly stabilize, and some even...
Trump, cut off from Twitter, faces a new drive for impeachment
WASHINGTON: An increasingly isolated and angry President Donald Trump, cut off by Twitter in the waning days of his term,...
Farmer impasse likely to be resolved on Monday
After the last meeting of the government and farmers led to positivity and breaking of bread together, it appears that...
US, Iran and inertia, an axis to dampen France’s Lebanese dreams
During a visit to Paris last month, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made clear that Washington was unhappy with...
ED attaches Rs 11.86 crore assets of Farooq Abdullah
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Saturday attached multiple properties of National Conference (NC) chief Farooq Abdullah, valued around Rs 11.86...
No deal on Brexit trade ‘very very likely’, British PM Johnson says
Britain is likely to complete its journey out of the European Union in three weeks without a trade deal, British...
‘U.S. set to sanction Turkey over Russian s-400 defence system’
The United States is poised to impose sanctions on Turkey over its acquisition last year of Russian S-400 air defence...
Samsung to invest Rs 4,825 cr to shift China factory to India
The Uttar Pradesh government on Friday said that it has decided to give special incentives to “Samsung Display Noida Private...
Moscow starts mass Covid-19 vaccination
MOSCOW: Moscow began distributing the Sputnik V COVID-19 shot via 70 clinics on Saturday, marking Russia’s first mass vaccination against...
Asia becomes second region to exceed 10 million coronavirus cases
BANGKOK: Asia surpassed 10 million infections of the new coronavirus on Saturday, the second-heaviest regional toll in the world, according...
Spanish regions ask for curfew as cases rise
MADRID: Spanish regions are urging the central government to take measures that would give them legal backing to impose curfews...
