An asteroid which is projected to come close to Earth later this year has a 0.41 per cent chance of hitting the planet, according to NASA data. The Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS), from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said the celestial object, known as

India on Sunday reported 3,044,940 coronavirus infections, with more than 69,200 cases being reported in the last 24 hours, according to the country's health ministry. The country crossed that mark just 16 days after the number of cases crossed 2 million. India is generating the

If the headline has tickled the travel bug in you and your head is filled with questions like “how” and “when”, then you’re not alone. A company organising this tour, shared a post about the trip on Instagram. Since then, the comments section of the post is

It is pertinent to note that the data is being under-reported and the actual scenario could be worse as the Nepali Communist Party (NCP) is trying to shield the expansionist agenda of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Nepal is becoming the victim of colonial design as China is slowly

Right-wing Pakistani politician and president of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F), Maulana Fazl-ur-Rehman criticized Imran Khan-led government for its ineffective policies regarding Kashmir. While addressing his supporters in Peshawar recently, Maulana lambasted Prime Minister Imran Khan as

Right-wing Pakistani politician and president of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F), Maulana Fazl-ur-Rehman, has attacked PM Imran Khan-led administration for their inefficiency in handling the Kashmir issue and the policies framed for the region. Addressing his supporters in Peshawar recently,

In the artillery attack by Pakistani forces on the “residential areas” in Spin Boldak district, Kandahar province on July 30, at least nine civilians were killed and 50 others were wounded. Now, in just 24 hours, the number has risen to 15 and 80 respectively. The spokesman

Amid rising cases of enforced disappearances in the region, people in Qazi Ahmed town of Shaheed Behazir Abad district of Sindh province in Pakistan took to streets to raise their voice against state terrorism and brutality in the province. “Stop state terrorism, fascism and

With India reporting 69,878 cases and 945 deaths in the last 24 hours, the total number of coronavirus infections in the country rose to 29,75,702 and the death toll reached 55,794 on Saturday.  Currently, India has 6,97,330 active cases while 22,22,578 people have been treated

Ministry of Economic Development, on Thursday, extended the ban on bringing Bangladeshi labourers to Maldives for a period of one year, just as the restriction's September 18 deadline draws close. Minister of Economic Development Fayyaz Ismail, in 2019, affixed a quota of 150,000

The Greenland ice sheet lost a record amount of ice in 2019, equivalent to a million tonnes per minute across the year, satellite data shows. The climate crisis is heating the Arctic at double the rate in lower latitudes, and the ice cap is the biggest single contributor to sea level

Mexico has been offered at least 2,000 doses of a Russian Covid-19 vaccine and is to take part in its clinical trials, said Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard. This is "very good news because once again we are gaining time", Xinhua news agency quoted Ebrard as saying on

Newly minted Democratic White House nominee Joe Biden said US President Donald Trump has "cloaked America in darkness for much too long". The former US vice-president said his rival has unleashed "too much anger, too much fear, too much division". His impassioned

Alibaba has moved to ease tensions with Donald Trump, as the US president continues to threaten Chinese firms. Chief executive Daniel Zhang said the online retailer's policies "support American brands, retailers, small businesses and farmers". The comments came as the

India and Nepal on Monday held the eighth round of Oversight Mechanism (OSM) meeting, in which the two sides discussed the progress made in India-assisted development projects in the last one year. The OSM was co-chaired by Indian Ambassador to Nepal Vinay Mohan Kwatra and Nepal's

Malaysia has rejected Beijing’s expansive maritime claims in the South China Sea, a region where Beijing’s territorial claims have aggravated tensions. “Malaysia opposes China’s claim that they have historic rights over those waters,” Malaysian Foreign

Pirmahal police on Sunday registered a case against three men belonging to the Ahmadi community on the complaint of a religious seminary official over violation of a supposed ban on them following Islamic practices. In his first information report, Mufti Abid Fareed, the administrator

Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny is in a coma and on a ventilator in a hospital in Siberia after falling ill from suspected poisoning during a flight, his spokeswoman said Thursday. Kira Yarmysh said on Thursday that Navalny, 44, was flying from Siberia to Moscow after a

A boat carrying dozens of migrants bound for Europe capsized in the Mediterranean Sea off Libya and at least 45 people drowned or were missing and presumed dead, the U.N. said Wednesday. The capsizing, which marked the largest number of fatalities in a single shipwreck off the coast of

Kamala Harris, the California senator whom Mr Joe Biden Selected as his running mate, accepted the vice-presidential nomination on Wednesday (Aug 19), introducing herself to the nation as a historic choice for a major party ticket and urging a change in the nation's leadership.