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A woman (L) sticks a blank note onto a Lennon Wall outside a pro-democracy restaurant in Hong Kong on July 3, 2020, in response to a new national security law introduced in the city which makes political views, slogans and signs advocating Hong Kongs independence or liberation illegal. (AFP)

'Hidden language': Hong Kongers get creative to mark dissent against...

Apart from word plays, residents are using even Chinese Communist Party dogma to express their frustration through...

4 July 2020 3:09 PM IST

Army soldiers during an encounter with militants at Baigpora area in Pulwama district of South Kashmir on May 6, 2020. Hizbul Mujahideen commander Riyaz Naikoo was killed in an operation by security forces. (PTI)

Encounter in Kulgam kills one militant; security forces bust terror...

The hideout was unearthed during the course of a joint search operation by police and the Rashtriya Rifles.

4 July 2020 3:03 PM IST

Reliance Jios new offering JioMeet.

Reliance Jio launches its own video conferencing app JioMeet to take...

The JioMeet video conferencing app is available across Android, iOS.Windows, macOS and web since Thursday evening.

4 July 2020 2:28 PM IST

Indian firm Panacea aims to make COVID-19 vaccine. (AFP Photo)

CPI(M): ICMR hastening coronavirus vaccine to help PM Modi announce it...

The apex research body wrote to select medical institutions to fast-track clinical trials for the coronavirus vaccine...

4 July 2020 1:56 PM IST

Vaccine volunteers are seated, at the Chris Hani Baragwanath hospital in Soweto, Johannesburg Wednesday, June 24, 2020. (AP)

South Africa reports another record daily of confirmed virus cases

The African continent overall has more than 433,000 confirmed virus cases, while South Africa alone has 2,900 casualties...

4 July 2020 1:23 PM IST

In this June 12, 2018, file photo, U.S. President Donald Trump, right, meets with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Sentosa Island, in Singapore. (AP)

No need to sit for talks with US: North Korea

North Korea thinks meeting with Trump would be nothing more than a political tool for Washington

4 July 2020 12:52 PM IST

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi. (PTI Photo)

Rahul, Priyanka to Modi government: Listen to patriotic Ladakhis on...

Gandhi also shared a media report which showed some Ladakhis alleging that the Chinese have been occupying Indian...

4 July 2020 12:45 PM IST

In this May 11, 2013, photo, U.S. nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Nimitz approaches Busan port, south of Seoul, South Korea. (AP)

US sends carriers to disputed South China Sea during Chinese drills

China and US have accused each other of stoking tension in the strategic waterway while relations are strained over...

4 July 2020 12:42 PM IST

Representational Image. (AP)

Putin mocks US embassy in Russia for flying rainbow flag

His comments followed a nationwide vote on constitutional reforms that included an effective ban on gay marriage

4 July 2020 12:19 PM IST

A house is left smouldering and damaged after yet another gunfight between security forces and militants in Srinagar. (File photo: Habib Naqash)

First person: When there's gunfire outside, switch off the lights and...

Widespread destruction has taken place in Kashmir in the past three decades and still every morning starts with a new...

4 July 2020 12:17 PM IST

Healthcare workers check temperature of labourers at a camp, organised in an effort to control the spread of new coronavirus, in Mumbai. PTI photo

Coronavirus cases in India now stand at 6,48,315 after record spike of...

India's COVID-19 tally climbed to 6,48,315 on Saturday.

4 July 2020 11:36 AM IST

US President Donald Trump watches as planes perform fly-overs of the Mount Rushmore National Monument Friday, July 3, 2020, in Keystone, S.D. (AP)

Trump pushes racial division, flouts virus rules at Rushmore

Leaders of Native American tribes in the region raised concerns that Trump's campaigns could lead to virus outbreaks...

4 July 2020 11:09 AM IST