About 90,000 Indian nationals have been rescued from various conflict zones, countries hit by natural calamities and other hazardous situations, and brought back to India safely over the last few years, Dnyaneshwar M Mulay, the Secretary of Consular, Passport, Visa and Overseas Indian Affairs in the

Beijing: China has donated over 32,000 solar power generating systems to Nepal to enhance its domestic capacity and to provide electricity to communities that have been without power since the 2015 earthquake. The donated items included 32,000 sets of household solar power generation systems and

LONDON: One of the UK's leading state-funded schools which had hit the headlines as one of the first to impose a ban on the hijab for girls under eight has been forced to reverse its decision after widespread criticism. St Stephen's School in Newham, east London, had been planning to extend the b

HASSA (TURKE|Y): Turkish ground troops entered Syria on Sunday to push an offensive against Kurdish militia as rocket fire hit a border town in apparent retaliation. Turkey on Saturday launched operation "Olive Branch" seeking to oust from the Afrin region of northern Syria the Peoples' Protection

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands of women and their male supporters turned out on Saturday for the second Women’s March, a nationwide series of protests against U.S. President Donald Trump marking the end of his tumultuous first year in office. The coordinated rallies in Washington, N

GENEVA: North Korea will send 22 athletes to next month's Winter Games in the South, the International Olympic Committee said on Saturday, and confirmed that the two nations will march together at the opening ceremony. The IOC has further approved a plan for North and South to field a unified wom

Yangon: Rohingya militants on Saturday hit out at a repatriation plan for refugees from Bangladesh to Myanmar set to begin next week, saying it aims to trap the Muslim minority in long-term camps while their ancestral lands are seized. Bangladesh and Myanmar have agreed to send back around 7,50,0

UNITED NATIONS: Pakistan needs to change its "mindset" of differentiating between good and bad terrorists, India said at the UN Security Council, urging it to focus on challenges posed by terrorism emanating from the safe havens from across the border. Indian Ambassador to the UN Syed Akbaruddin

Washington: Donald Trump ended up with 39% of approval rating which is lowest ever by any elected US president in his first year. According to polling by Gallup, the previous low was held by Bill Clinton, whose first-year average stood 10 points higher than Trump’s, at 49%. According to a CNN

London: The first female Muslim minister, Indian-origin parliamentarian in Uk, Nus Ghani spoke from the British Parliament dispatch box. According to the news reported in NTDV, she was born to Parents who migrated from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. Soon after her first speech in house of commons,

MOSCOW: Even thermometers can't keep up with the plunging temperatures in Russia's remote Yakutia region, which hit minus 67 degrees Celsius (minus 88.6 degrees Fahrenheit) in some areas Tuesday. In Yakutia — a region of 1 million people about 3,300 miles (5,300 kilometers) east of Moscow — stude

DHAKA/COX'S BAZAAR: Bangladesh said on Tuesday it would complete the process of returning within two years many of the hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims who had fled a conflict in Myanmar, following a meeting of the neighbours. The bilateral repatriation plan, which Myanmar said would beg

The United States on Tuesday reiterated its demand for Pakistan to act against the Haqqani Network and other terror groups operating from its soil, saying it wants to forge a “new relationship” with the country based on mutual interests. Visiting US acting assistant secretary of state Alice Wells

An experimental tower over 100 metres (328 feet) high in northern China – dubbed the world’s biggest air purifier by its operators – has brought a noticeable improvement in air quality, according to the scientist leading the project, as authorities seek ways to tackle the nation’s chronic smog probl

WASHINGTON: The execution date of the First NRI death-row prisoner in US convicted of killing a baby and her Indian grandmother has been set for next month. Raghunandan Yandamuri, 32, in 2014 was given death penalty for kidnapping and killing a 61-year-old elderly Indian woman and her 10-month-ol

London [UK]: After United States President Donald Trump cancelled his planned visit to London, Mayor Sadiq Khan on Friday said that the former “got the message” from Londoners. Khan said that Trump’s visit would have been hampered by mass protests as the U. S. President views are opposite of the

BEIJING, CHINA: Chinese rescuers Saturday recovered two bodies and the "black box" from a stricken Iranian oil tanker which has been ablaze for the past week off the east coast of China, the transport ministry said. The Sanchi, carrying 136,000 tonnes of light crude oil from Iran, has been in fla

TEHRAN: Iran on Saturday (Jan 13) rejected any modification of its nuclear deal with world powers after US President Donald Trump demanded tough new measures to keep the agreement alive. Iran "will not accept any amendments in this agreement, be it now or in the future, and it will not allow any