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Children of stranded migrant workers wait to board a special train to Bihar state from MGR central railway station after the government eased a nationwide lockdown imposed as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus, in Chennai. (AFP)

COVID-19 impact may kill 8 lakh kids in South Asia: Unicef

The bulk of these would occur in India and Pakistan, although Bangladesh and Afghanistan will also be affected, a recent...

24 Jun 2020 11:24 AM IST

Russian President Vladimir Putin (center). (AP)

Russia refuses to meddle in Sino-Indian border dispute

Russia maintains close ties with both India and China and its views are therefore seen as extremely important

24 Jun 2020 10:31 AM IST

This June 22, 2020, satellite image provided by Maxar Technologies shows the Line of Actual Control (LAC), the border between India and China. (AP)

RIC should properly deal with bilateral ties: Chinese foreign minister

This comes a week after the bloody cash between Indian and Chinese troops at the Galwan valley in the Ladakh sector

24 Jun 2020 10:26 AM IST

A rural village in the Moutse Valley, 160 kms (100 miles) north east of Johannesburg, South Africa, near the clinic where the Ndlovu Youth Choir waits to be processed for Covid-19 testing. (AP)

Worst of COVID-19 is yet to come in South Africa: Top scientist

The infections and deaths in the country have doubled in the past fortnight after lockdown introduced three months ago...

24 Jun 2020 9:46 AM IST

Representational Image. (PTI)

World's first yoga university outside India launched in US

Named Vivekananda Yoga University, it will offer online graduate programmes based on modern research approaches to yoga

24 Jun 2020 9:08 AM IST

Workers in full protective gear transfer the body of a COVID-19 victim to the Azcapotzalco crematorium in Mexico City. (AP)

Latin America and Caribbean pass 100,000 COVID-19 deaths

More than half of these deaths are in Brazil, while it also has the second-highest COVID-19 death toll in the world,...

24 Jun 2020 8:57 AM IST

North Korean government shows North Koreans prepare anti-South Korea propaganda leaflets in North Korea. South Korea on Monday, June 22, 2020 urged North Korea to scrap a plan to launch propaganda leaflets across the border. (Korea News Service via AP, File)

South Korea urges North not to send leaflets amid high tensions

Earlier Monday, North Korea said it had manufactured 12 million propaganda leaflets to be floated toward South Korea

22 Jun 2020 2:39 PM IST

Workers in protective suits take the temperatures of people at a COVID-19 testing site for those who were potentially exposed to the coronavirus outbreak at a wholesale food market in Beijing. (AP Photo)

Coronavirus cases surge in US, but slow in China, South Korea

World Health Organization reported largest single-day increase in coronavirus cases, at more than 183,000 new cases in...

22 Jun 2020 1:27 PM IST

President Donald Trump on Thursday renewed his threat to cut ties with China. (AFP Photo)

US will help India-China in this tough situation: Trump

It may be recalled President Trump had discussed the tense situation on the Sino-Indian border with PM Modi

22 Jun 2020 11:02 AM IST

Floral tributes are seen at a police cordon at the Abbey Gateway near Forbury Gardens park in Reading, west of London, on June 21, 2020 following a fatal stabbing incident the previous day. (AFP)

Britain says stabbing 'atrocity' in town park was terrorism

An unnamed 25-year-old man had been arrested on suspicion of murder and held in police custody

22 Jun 2020 9:05 AM IST

An employee in full protective gear checks the temperature of passengers arriving to check in for their flight bound for Beijing at the Barajas airport in Madrid on June 20, 2020. (AFP)

Spain reopens border with France

Spain has been one of the worst affected countries, suffering more than 28,000 deaths and nearly 300,000 cases

21 Jun 2020 4:19 PM IST

Zeev Sternhell. (AFP)

Israeli historian, activist Zeev Sternhell dies at 85

A publicly engaged academic, Sternhell headed the Hebrew University's political science department and was a professor...

21 Jun 2020 4:11 PM IST