US House speaker Nancy Pelosi said Friday that China will not isolate Taiwan by preventing US officials from travelling there. Pelosi, the first House speaker to visit Taiwan in 25 years, said Wednesday in Taipei that the US commitment to democracy in the self-governing island and elsewhere “remains ironclad”.
The anti-Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) movement, which fizzled out with the outbreak of Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, is gathering steam in the northeast once again.
Sreeshankar clinched the silver medal in the men’s long jump final with a mark of 8.08m, becoming the first Indian male athlete to win a Commonwealth Games medal in long jump. Para-powerlifter Sudhir won India’s first gold in the event at the Commonwealth Games. So far, India has won 20 medals and is at...
Telangana is not just high on liquor, but also the beer capital of the south, bubbling over its neighbours in guzzling the foamy beverage. The state topped the charts with 11 litres annual per capita consumption and was distantly followed by other southern states, including Andhra Pradesh that consumed just 4.43 litres per capita....
A gang rape survivor who filed an FIR against two men, family acquaintances who had assaulted her when she was just 12, an attack that left her pregnant a year later, has appealed to “women like me to come forward and fight for justice”. She said she “needed to say this, even if 28...
At least nine people died after allegedly consuming spurious liquor at Bhatha village under Maker police station area in Bihar’s Saran district on Thursday.