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NEW DELHI: India, the US, Australia and Japan are holding a security dialogue, known as Quad, in Tokyo on Tuesday with the aim of countering China’s growing assertiveness in the Indo-Pacific region. The foreign minister-level talks are of importance as the four nations have border or trade-related conflicts with China …

A ‘safe and effective’ vaccine against the novel coronavirus disease could be ready by the end of the year, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday. “We will need vaccines and there is hope that by the end of this year we can have a vaccine. There is hope,” …

Unfavorable views of China have soared to record highs in many countries in a new global survey by the Pew Research Center, with the highest in Australia. The majority of respondents in each of the 14 advanced economies had negative views of China. But in nine of them, China’s unpopularity …

TAIPEI: Negative perceptions of China have risen dramatically in many of the world’s advanced countries, especially Australia and Britain, according to a new Pew Research Center survey released Tuesday. The poll comes as China is involved in multiple trade and diplomatic disputes with its neighbors and other countries around the …

Written by Mehr Gill | New Delhi | Updated: October 6, 2020 8:22:04 pm The three winners on the left screen, Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez have won this year’s Nobel Prize in physics for discoveries of black holes. (AP) On Tuesday, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences …

Hours before starting the Quad’s security dialogue in Tokyo, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday backed the formalization of the informal group to build a “true security framework” that could counter the challenge posed by a Aggressive China. Other countries, Pompeo told Nikkei Asia in an interview, could …

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jaganmohan Reddy. (File photo: PTI) The BJP, which has lost several allies, including the two oldest partners, Shiv Sena and SAD, in the last year, is looking for new allies to tell the world that it can still work with …

By: Education Desk | New Delhi | Updated: October 6, 2020 12:43:58 pm JoSAA 2020 – Check the details of the advice, the seat assignment process. Representative image / file JoSAA 2020: The Joint Seat Allocation Authority (JoSAA) will carry out the counseling process for students applying for IIT, NIT, …

Manali: Motorists fight their way to accidents by combining selfies with reckless driving as they traverse the 9.02 km long horseshoe-shaped Atal Tunnel, the longest passable tunnel in the world, in the Kullu district of Himachal Pradesh. A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the tunnel, under the majestic …

Roger Penrose from the United Kingdom, Reinhard Genzel from Germany and Andrea Ghez from the United States won the Nobel Prize in Physics Stockholm: Britain’s Roger Penrose, Germany’s Reinhard Genzel and the United States’ Andrea Ghez won the Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for their research on black holes, …