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Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan underwent a test for the novel coronavirus on Wednesday. (AFP Photo)

FATF all set to decide on Pakistan's grey list status

To wriggle out of the grey list, Pakistan had recently imposed sanctions on 88 terror groups and their leaders,...

5 Oct 2020 1:18 PM IST

Vice President Mike Pence greets the crowd before he speaks during a Faith and Freedom Coalition policy conference. (AP)

Trump's defender: Pence's campaign role grows at key moment

With Trump hospitalized with COVID-19, his ever-loyal No. 2 will play an increasingly prominent role in the weeks ahead

5 Oct 2020 12:57 PM IST

The Glass Fire begins its descent into the valley after ravaging the hills as night falls on Napa Valley, California on September 27, 2020. - The Glass fire grew to 2,500 Acres on the evening of September 27. A heat wave and dry winds create critical weather conditions and mandatory evacuations are in order. (AFP)

Record California wildfires burn over 4 million acres

The most-populous US state suffered five of its six largest wildfires in history this year

5 Oct 2020 12:18 PM IST

The EC was responding to a story carried out by this paper in which former IAS officer Kannan Gopinathan had raised serious concerns with regard to sanctity of EVMs due to use of VVPAT machines, saying VVPATs have made EVMs amenable to hacking.

EC tweaks postal ballot procedure

A Booth Level Officer (BLO) will visit the houses of the concerned electors in the polling station area and deliver 12-D...

5 Oct 2020 11:57 AM IST

$Vorayuth \Boss\ Yoovidhya, whose grandfather co-founded energy drink company Red Bull, walks to get in a car as he leaves a house in London. Charges have been dropped against the Thai heir to the Red Bull energy drink fortune who is accused in a 2012 car crash that killed a Bangkok police officer, Thai police said Friday, July 24, 2020. (AP)$ World

Interpol issues 'red notice' for Thai Red Bull heir over hit-and-run

The charges against Vorayuth, grandson of Red Bull's co-founder, were dropped in July - sparking public outrage from...

5 Oct 2020 11:27 AM IST

Peoples Pioneer Partys (PPP) candidate Myo Min Tun talking to the media in his office in Mandalay, ahead of the November 8 general election. - Outraged over ongoing discrimination in Myanmar, Myo Min Tun decided to stand as the first openly gay election candidate in a country where same-sex relations are illegal. (AFP)

I don't want to lie: Gay pioneer stands in Myanmar election

Same-sex relations are still illegal in Myanmar - even if space is opening up for the LGBT+ community in the...

5 Oct 2020 11:01 AM IST

A national library employee shows a gold Nobel Prize medal in Bogota, Colombia. The Nobels, with new winners announced starting Monday, Oct. 5, 2020, often concentrate on unheralded, methodical, basic science. (AP File)

2020 Nobel season opens with medicine prize

No prizes are expected to be awarded this year for work directly linked to the new coronavirus

5 Oct 2020 10:53 AM IST

$PM Jacinda Ardern declared New Zealand \beat the virus again\. (Image: Facebook/Jacinda Ardern)$ World

New Zealand's Jacinda Ardern says 'we beat the virus again'

Ardern announced restrictions in the country's largest city would be eased, after a second COVID-19 wave was contained

5 Oct 2020 10:17 AM IST

US President Trump waves from the back of a car in a motorcade outside of Walter Reed Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland on October 4, 2020. (AFP)

COVID-hit Trump briefly leaves hospital to drive by supporters

The US president was moved to the military hospital on Friday, which his doctors and White House said was taken out of...

5 Oct 2020 9:46 AM IST

Watson (83 off 53 balls) hit his first half-century of the season and together with Du Plessis, who smashed 87 of 53 balls, led Chennai past Punjabs 178 for four. (Photo | PTI)

Chennai post a 10-wicket win with openers Shane Watson, Faf Du Plessis...

The partnership was Chennai's best opening stand in the Twenty20 tournament as the MS Dhoni-led team bounced back after...

5 Oct 2020 12:35 AM IST

The swashbuckling duo of Hardika Pandya and Kieron Pollard scored 28 and 25 respectively. (Photo | PTI)

Quinton de Kock leads the blaze for Mumbai Indians in their 34-run win...

The seasoned South African scored a sizzling 67 off 39 balls.

4 Oct 2020 9:11 PM IST

I think I just try to keep it basic, and not overthink things. Once you think too much about the big or small ground, and how easy it is sometimes to hit sixes you get a bit carried away, so just stick to your skills what you have been training, and that is whats going to get you over the line, Anrich Nortje said. (Photo | PTI)

Big guns RCB don't rattle Delhi Capitals pacer Anrich Nortje

Nortje said it is all about sticking to basics and executing their plans.

4 Oct 2020 6:30 PM IST