Foreign minister S Jaishankar and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday discussed regional and global issues, including the Sri Lanka crisis and what the US described as Russia’s “brutal aggression” against Ukraine and its implications for global food security. The meeting took place in Cambodia on the sidelines of the Asean Regional...
Read MoreChina had threatened “serious consequences” if Pelosi landed in Taiwan, despite that the senior US politician met President Tsai Ing-wen in Taipei on August 3. The visit left China humiliated and angry. It has already taken some severe steps against the island and may take more overt action, even a full-blown invasion, in the...
Read MoreWith the central government set to recruit 10 lakh people over the next one-and-a-half years to fill up the nearly 9.79 lakh vacant posts across all ministries and departments, junior minister Jitendra Singh on Thursday told the Rajya Sabha that all posts deemed abolished upon remaining vacant for more than 2-3 years may be...
Read MoreIndia on Thursday witnessed an uptick in the number of new Covid-19 infections as it recorded 19,893 cases in the last 24 hours, according to the data shared by the ministry of health and family welfare. The country’s active Covid cases declined to 1,36,478 from 1,37,057. Stay with TOI for all updates —
Read MoreThe Centre on Thursday asked some of the leading doctors and scientists specialising in public health to submit their recommendations on how to deal with the growing monkeypox outbreak. India has so far reported nine confirmed cases of the viral infection, five from Kerala and four from Delhi.
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