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In a major U-turn, the UK government on Tuesday announced a ban on the purchase of new Huawei kits for 5G from next year and said that the Chinese telecom giant’s

Nepal Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli has claimed that India has created a ‘fake’ Ayodhya, and Lord Ram was originally from Nepal — a shocking statement that has come at a time

US academic institutions have announced their joining of a lawsuit against President Donald Trump administration’s decision to ban foreign students taking only online courses.  Some 180 of them have called for the

The UN Security Council (UNSC) has adopted a resolution to renew on the mandate for cross-border humanitarian mechanism in Syria. This was passed with 12 votes in favour and with three abstentions.

Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has won the primary in the state of Louisiana, a media report said. The former Vice President won with 82.2 per cent of the vote, leading

The World Council of Churches has called on Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to reverse his decision to turn the celebrated Hagia Sophia museum back into a mosque. In a letter to

Amid ongoing tension along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh, Chinese Ambassador to India, H.E. Sun Weidong, on Friday said that India and China should be a partner and

Experts and economists say that the BBIN ((Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal) sub-region can reduce poverty and ensure stability through trade and connectivity. Addressing a seminar on a digital platform on Tuesday, several

The Uighur Turks and other Muslim communities in China have asked the United Nations and other international organisations to put pressure on China and investigate the acts of genocide perpetrated against the