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A restaurant sells meat to residents, Wednesday, June 1, 2022, in Shanghai. Shanghai authorities say they will take major steps Wednesday toward reopening Chinas largest city after a two-month COVID-19 lockdown. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Shanghai starts coming back to life as COVID lockdown eases

Negative PCR tests for COVID taken within the previous 48 hours remain standard in Shanghai, Beijing for permission to...

1 Jun 2022 1:26 PM IST

This handout photograph released by Fishtail Air, shows the wreckage of a plane in a gorge in Sanosware in Mustang district close to the mountain town of Jomsom, west of Kathmandu, Nepal, Monday, May 30, 2022. (Fishtail Air via AP)

No survivors found at Tara Air plane crash site, collection of dead...

The plane belonging to Tara Air went missing on Sunday morning in a mountainous region in Nepal and had four Indian...

30 May 2022 12:29 PM IST

Police official Ramesh Thapa said there was no information on the Twin Otter aircraft and a search was underway. (Representational image)

Plane carrying 22 people on board, including four Indians goes missing...

The plane, which was on a 15-minute scheduled flight to the town of Jomsom, lost contact with the airport tower shortly...

29 May 2022 12:06 PM IST

Ranil Wickremesinghe (Ishara S. KODIKARA / AFP)

Sri Lanka PM Ranil Wickremesinghe appointed Finance Minister by Prez...

Wickremesinghe relies on all political parties to support him in his immediate task of reviving the ailing economy

25 May 2022 12:38 PM IST

Law enforcement personnel walk outside Uvalde High School after shooting a was reported earlier in the day at Robb Elementary School, Tuesday, May 24, 2022, in Uvalde, Texas. (William Luther/The San Antonio Express-News via AP)

Texas school massacre: 19 children, 2 adults shot dead, several...

Texas Governor Greg Abbott named the suspect as Salvador Ramos, an 18-year-old local resident and a US citizen

25 May 2022 10:42 AM IST

A port worker stands by a ship that carried emergency supplies granted as humanitarian aid by Tamil Nadu government to Sri Lankan people at a port in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Sunday, May 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

Crisis-hit Sri Lanka hikes fuel prices to record high

The price of diesel was raised from Rs. 289 to Rs. 400 a litre, while the cost of a litre of petrol was increased from...

24 May 2022 12:15 PM IST

US President Joe Biden attends a press conference at the Akasaka Palace in Tokyo on May 23, 2022. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP)

China 'flirting with danger', US would defend Taiwan if Beijing...

It will dislocate the entire region and be another action similar to what happened in Ukraine, Biden said

23 May 2022 1:04 PM IST

Namal Rajapaksa (ANI)

'India big brother to Sri Lanka': Namal Rajapaksa thanks India for...

India handed over a large amount of humanitarian assistance consignment worth over Rs 2 billion to Sri Lanka which...

23 May 2022 12:33 PM IST

Ukrainian servicemen sit in a bus after leaving Mariupols besieged Azovstal steel plant, near a penal colony, in Olyonivka, in territory under the government of the Donetsk Peoples Republic, eastern Ukraine. (AP Photo)

In biggest victory yet, Russia claims to capture Mariupol

Mariupol's capture at this point is of mostly symbolic importance, since the city was already effectively under Moscow's...

21 May 2022 11:45 AM IST

(L-R) Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Labour party leader Anthony Albanese. (Photo: AFP and Twitter)

Quad meet puts Aussies in a fix

Aussie PM, Oppn leader in race to attend

19 May 2022 1:37 AM IST

A pedestrian walks on a bridge above vehicle traffic in New Delhi, as the city is enveloped under thick smog. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup, File)

Global pollution kills 9 million people a year, study finds

India and China lead the world in pollution deaths with nearly 2.4 million and almost 2.2 million deaths a year

18 May 2022 10:57 AM IST

Swedens Minister of Foregn Affairs Ann Linde signs Swedens application for NATO membership at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Stockholm, Sweden, on May 17, 2022. (Photo: AFP)

Sweden signs NATO request, Finland formally endorses move

Finland's Parliament has overwhelmingly endorsed a bid from the Nordic country's government to join NATO

18 May 2022 1:12 AM IST