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Moscow: Work-from-home restrictions were reimposed in Moscow on Monday as Russia tried to contain a deadly coronavirus wave fuelled by the Delta variant, while several Asian nations also tightened curbs to contain growing outbreaks. While many wealthy countries have brought down infections through rapid vaccinations, outbreaks
London: British former finance minister Sajid Javid will replace Matt Hancock as the country’s health minister, Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s office said. Javid resigned as finance minister last year after he refused to fire his political advisers as demanded by Johnson. Earlier, UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock
Islamabad: Minister for Education and Professional Training Shafqat Mahmood on Monday said Pakistan and United Kingdom are deep strategic partners in field of education and this long-standing partnership has been further strengthened during tenure of PTI led government. Talking to British High Commissioner Christian Turner in
A research paper published by UK’s Royal United Services Institute and NATO Defence College experts on June 16, titled “Regional Powers and Post-NATO Afghanistan,” seeks to analyse the “underestimated” importance of regional dynamics in the Afghan peace process. The paper shows how the divergent interests of
New Delhi: German ambassador to India Walter J Lindner has recently said that given the spread of the Delta variant of the virus, lifting travel restrictions for India, despite students' woes, is difficult. Most of the countries are continuing their travel restrictions on India in the
New Delhi: Indian farmers tried to march to governors' residence in several states even as Union agriculture minister Narendra Singh Tomar appealed them to end their stir and offered to resume talks on the provisions of the three legislations. Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM), an umbrella body
Kathmandu: Five former Prime Ministers of Nepal have drawn attention to alleged Indian interference in domestic affairs amidst ongoing political challenges of Nepal. In a joint statement, former Prime Ministers Sher Bahadur Deuba, Pushpa Kamal Dahal , Madhav Kumar Nepal, Jhalanath Khanal and Dr Baburam Bhattarai
New Delhi: A top official of the Indian cricket board said Monday this year's Twenty20 World Cup would be moved to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) because of the COVID-19 situation in India and travel restrictions stemming from it. The pandemic swept the world's second-most populous
Srinagar: Sources in the outer security at Indian Air Force Station, Jammu said that there were no remnant of the drone found from the two sites of the incidents. He continued that IAF technical experts ruled out that an act of terrorism. It was claimed
India may be contemplating further illegal measures in occupied Kashmir: Qureshi to UN, UNSC June 16, 2021 Islamabad: Minister for Foreign Affairs Shah Mahmood Qureshi has addressed a letter to the President of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) and the United Nations Secretary General sharing with
Geneva: Rich countries are opening up societies and vaccinating young people who are not at great risk from COVID-19, while the poorest countries cruelly lack doses, the World Health Organization said on Friday, condemning a global failure. The situation in Africa, where new infections and deaths
United Nations: The UN s special envoy for Syria, Geir Pedersen added his voice to calls to keep open the only border crossing through which humanitarian aid reaches the insurgent Idlib region, a move opposed by Moscow. Aside from being the sole point through which aid