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In a controversial move, Chinese President Xi Jinping called on People’s Liberation Army (PLA) troops to prepare for war amid a border dispute with India, according to reports on Wednesday. Jinping called on Chinese troops to “put all (their) minds and energies into preparing for war” on a visit to …

IMF report says India’s GDP is estimated to grow 8.8 percent in 2021 (Representational) New Delhi: Government sources today responded to congressional MP Rahul Gandhi’s sarcastic applause on an IMF report saying that India’s GDP per capita will fall below that of Bangladesh, stating that in purchasing power parity terms …

NEW DELHI: The Union government approved on Wednesday a ₹5,718 crore centrally sponsored scheme to improve educational outcomes with help from the World Bank in six states and announced that a similar program will be implemented in five other states. Union Minister Prakash Javadekar in a cabinet briefing said the …

In a sign of France’s increased focus on the Indian Ocean and China’s increasingly assertive behavior across the region, President Emmanuel Macron has appointed the country’s first ambassador to the Indo-Pacific. Christophe Penot, one of France’s top diplomats who was until recently sent to Australia, will take up the new …

NEW DELHI / WASHINGTON: The re-election of countries like China and Pakistan to the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) amid opposition from human rights groups generated condemnation from various sectors on Wednesday. China won a HRC seat by a small margin on Tuesday, while Pakistan garnered the highest number …

Images of the detonation were shared by the Polish Navy on Facebook. A massive World War II bomb exploded during a delicate operation Tuesday to deactivate the five-ton device in a canal near the Baltic Sea, but no one was injured, Polish officials said. The device, nicknamed “Tallboy” and also …

@TanishqJewelry | Photo credit: Twitter New Delhi: Amid the huge dispute over an ad showing an interfaith baby shower, a report on Wednesday claimed that the Tanishq jewelry brand store was attacked by a mob in the town of Gandhidham in Gujarat’s Kutch district on Monday for the night. However, …

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan’s national security adviser has faced criticism within his country for claiming that India was linked to the 2014 terrorist assault on an army school in Peshawar, an attack the Taliban claimed responsibility for. The responsability. Moeed Yusuf, Khan’s special assistant on national security and strategic …

Amid the increase in COVID-19 coronavirus cases in India, the central government expects that between 400 and 500 million doses of the vaccine will be available in the country in 2021. Union Health Minister Dr. Harsh Vardhan, chaired a meeting of a group of ministers on Tuesday in Delhi. to …

Yoga guru Ramdev fell off an elephant while practicing yoga. A video showing yoga guru Ramdev falling off an elephant while practicing yoga is viral on social media. He was reportedly filmed at an ashram in Mathura in Uttar Pradesh while Ramdev was teaching yoga to a group of people. …