BEIJING: China is ready to deepen "friendly and cooperative" relations with Afghanistan, a government spokeswoman said Monday, after the Taliban seized control of the...
WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden and other top U.S. officials have been stunned by the pace of the Taliban's nearly complete takeover of Afghanistan,...
Researchers from IIT Madras, Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai and London’s Queen Mary University have joined hands to develop a revolutionary air sanitisation system...
MOSCOW: Russia is working with other countries to hold an emergency UN Security Council meeting on Afghanistan as the Taliban completes its military takeover...
London: A COVID-19 vaccine candidate which can be administered through the nose showed a reduction in both the impact of the disease and transmission...
Dr. Anthony Fauci says Americans can expect to see more children infected with the coronavirus as the highly transmissible delta variant extends its hold...
LONDON: When a World Health Organization-led team traveled to China earlier this year to investigate the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, a top official...
Kabul: The Taliban captured a strategic provincial capital near Kabul on Thursday, the 10th the insurgents have taken in a week-long sweep across Afghanistan...
New Delhi: India and Saudi Arabia are all set to conduct their first-ever naval exercise, in reflection of their growing defence and military cooperation,...
KABUL: Taliban fighters Sunday took control of much of the capital of northern Afghanistan's Kunduz province, including the governor's office and police headquarters, a...
BEIJING: China's Wuhan city, where the coronavirus first emerged in 2019 and which is currently experiencing a resurgence of infections, has tested 11.23 of...
Islamabad: Pakistan’s National Security Adviser Moeed Yusuf has said that no US official or lawmaker asked for a military base in Pakistan, rejecting reports...
Washington: Lamenting that the US has allocated only 7.5 million doses of Covid vaccines to India, a top Indian-American Congressman has urged the Biden...
TEHRAN: Iran and India can play a "constructive and useful" role in ensuring security in the region, especially in Afghanistan, and Tehran welcomes New...
BEIJING: China has appointed a new military commander in restive Xinjiang where authorities have locked up more than a million members of Muslim minorities...
UNITED NATIONS: The UN Security Council, under the Presidency of India, will meet on Friday to discuss the worsening security situation in Afghanistan.
The decision...
United Nations: The highly-transmissible Delta variant of Covid-19 has now been reported in 135 countries, according to the World Health Organisation which said the...
KANDAHAR: Afghan forces fought fierce street battles and bombed Taliban positions on Sunday while insurgents swarmed major cities as they stepped up their nationwide...
Early symptoms indicating a COVID-19 infection varies between age groups and also between men and women, new UK research has found. The study, which...