Washington: The United States added Russia to a blacklist of countries singled out for “egregious violations of religious freedom,” the state department said. US secretary of state Antony Blinken said in a statement that he was designating Russia,...

Washington: The White House, under pressure from activists to increase the supply of coronavirus vaccines to poor nations, is prepared to invest billions of dollars to expand US manufacturing capacity, with the goal of producing at least 1 billion...

Following intense speculation over the past several weeks on how Islamabad would respond to India’s proposal to deliver humanitarian aid to Afghanistan, Pakistan PM Imran Khan said his government will allow India to transport 50,000 mt wheat...

Businessman Mehul Choksi has moved the Bombay high court seeking that the proceedings initiated against him by the Enforcement Directorate (ED), which has sought that he be declared a fugitive economic offender (FEO), be kept in abeyance.

A local association of gurdwaras announced it would open its doors to allow namaz with the number of sites for Friday prayers having shrunk by almost half in the city because of protests by rightwing outfits and some local residents over the...

Chafing at the lack of progress in framing a uniform scheme to ensure cooked food for the hungry and destitute across the states, the Supreme Court pilloried the Centre for filing a deficient affidavit, that too by a junior officer, before threatening...