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Anti-coup protesters gesture with a three-fingers salute, a symbol of resistance during a demonstration during by police crack down in Thaketa township Yangon, Myanmar, Saturday, March 27, 2021. (AP)World
Myanmar mourns bloodiest day since coup, U.N. investigator condemns...

Children were among those killed on Saturday, Myanmar's Armed Forces Day, according to news reports and witnesses

28 March 2021 2:09 PM IST

Ever Given, a Panama-flagged cargo ship, that is wedged across the Suez Canal and blocking traffic in the vital waterway is seen Saturday, March 27, 2021. Tugboats and a specialized suction dredger worked to dislodge a giant container ship that has been stuck sideways in Egypts Suez Canal for the past three days, blocking a crucial waterway for global shipping. (AP)World
2 tugboats speed to Egypt's Suez Canal as shippers avoid it

The tugboats will nudge the 400-meter-long Ever Given as dredgers continue to vacuum up sand from underneath the vessel

28 March 2021 1:55 PM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi being welcomed by Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina and other dignitaries on his arrival at the National Day programme of Bangladesh, in Dhaka. (PTI)World
I was jailed for Bangladesh: Prime Minister Modi

The high-profile visit of PM Modi began on a stormy note, with four supporters of hardline Islamist group...

27 March 2021 9:15 AM IST

This satellite image from Maxar Technologies shows the cargo ship MV Ever Given stuck in the Suez Canal near Suez, Egypt, Friday, March 26, 2021. A maritime traffic jam grew to more than 200 vessels Friday outside the Suez Canal and some vessels began changing course as dredgers worked frantically to free a giant container ship that is stuck sideways in the waterway and disrupting global shipping. (©Maxar Technologies via AP)World
Over 200 vessels blocked as 'maritime traffic jam' grows outside...

An initial investigation showed the vessel ran aground due to strong winds and ruled out mechanical or engine failure as...

26 March 2021 11:22 PM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi being received by Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina, in Dhaka, Friday, March 26, 2021. (PTI)World
PM Modi arrives in Bangladesh on his first foreign trip since COVID-19...

Modi is visiting Bangladesh on his first trip to a foreign country since the outbreak of the coronavirus

26 March 2021 12:36 PM IST

The democratic world waits with bated breath to see if American lawmakers have the gumption to condemn Mr Trump for a rule that has left the USA fractured and disunited, angry and confused. (Photo:AP)World
Trump plans social media return with his own platform

Twitter last week said it would seek public input on when and how it should ban world leaders, saying it was reviewing...

24 March 2021 2:29 PM IST

The second India-US Homeland Security Dialogue was held in Washington DC in 2013, between Napolitano and the then Home Minister Sushil Kumar. (Representational image: AFP file photo)World
India, US agree to re-establish Homeland Security Dialogue

An initiative of the Obama administration, the first India-US Homeland Security Dialogue was held in May 2011

24 March 2021 11:48 AM IST

A man driving a vehicle in an ethnic Uighur neighbourhood in Aksu in the region of Xinjiang. (AFP)World
West sanctions China over Xinjiang abuses, Beijing hits back at EU

Western governments are seeking to hold Beijing accountable for mass detentions of Muslim Uighurs in northwestern China

23 March 2021 1:03 PM IST

Police used armored vehicles to smash windows and walls to gain access as a gunman opened fire at a King Soopers grocery store on March 22, 2021 in Boulder, Colorado. Ten people, including a police officer, were killed in the attack. (Chet Strange/Getty Images/AFP)World
Colorado supermarket shooter kills 10, including police officer

Police said the suspected gunman was believed to be the only individual with serious injuries who survived the bloodshed

23 March 2021 11:20 AM IST

The Chinese delegation led by Yang Jiechi (C), director of the Central Foreign Affairs Commission Office and Wang Yi (2nd L), Chinas Foreign Minister, speak with their US counterparts at the opening session of US-China talks at the Captain Cook Hotel in Anchorage, Alaska on March 18, 2021. - Chinas actions \threaten the rules-based order that maintains global stability,\ US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Thursday at the opening of a two-day meeting with Chinese counterparts in Alaska. (AFP)World
US, China spar over world order during their first meeting under Biden

The relations between the US and China are at an all-time low

19 March 2021 3:31 PM IST

Authorities investigate a fatal shooting at a massage parlor in Acworth, Georgia. Officials say 21-year-old Robert Aaron Long, of Woodstock, Georgia, has been captured hours after multiple people were killed in shootings at three Atlanta-area massage parlors. (AP)World
Georgia massage parlor shootings leave 8 dead

Four of the victims who died were women of Korean descent, as a 21-year-old man suspected in the shootings was taken...

17 March 2021 2:53 PM IST

Biden also shrugged off claims that his dismantling of former president Donald Trumps tough stance had encouraged the surge, pointing out that there had been similar surges in 2019 and 2020. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP)World
Biden tells migrants 'don't come' as criticism grows

Republican critics say Biden's policies caused a sharp increase in migrants seeking to cross into the US illegally

17 March 2021 11:23 AM IST

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