The country has been in turmoil since the military ousted and detained civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi last month.
President Ram Nath Kovind had a day ago launched the Pulse Polio Programme 2021 by administering polio drops to children below five years of age at Rashtrapati Bhawan in Delhi.
KCR, 60, has been away from public life since the coronavirus lockdown and his son has taken up most of his responsibilities, leading up to speculations that KTR may succeed his father during the current term of the assembly, which ends in December 2023.
Lai, a vocal Beijing critic, is one of the highest-profile figures charged under a sweeping security law that China imposed on the financial hub in late June in a bid to stamp out dissent.
U.S. President Donald Trump threatened on Tuesday not to sign a $892billion coronavirus relief bill that includes desperately needed money for individual Americans, saying it should be amended to increase the amount in the stimulus checks.
The new rules also mark the European Commission's frustration with its antitrust cases against the tech giants, notably Google, which critics say did not address the problem.
Chile is getting ready to start an immunization campaign with Pfizer Inc's vaccine against the coronavirus, if it wins approval, Health Minister Enrique Paris said on Saturday.
Queen Elizabeth and senior members of the British royal family gathered at the monarch's Windsor Castle home on Tuesday to thank local volunteers and key workers and hear Christmas carols being played by the Salvation Army brass band.
According to the police, the man identified as Pappy Singh, a resident of Uttar Pradesh, had photocopied his brother's identity card, who is currently serving as a soldier.
Unilever PLC chose Brazil, which boasts the second largest population of dogs and cats in the world, to launch a line of pet care products as it tries to offset lower sales of more traditional consumer goods.
A Muzaffarnagar court on Tuesday completed the cross-examination of a victim of alleged sexual exploitation by a self-styled godman in his ashram at Shukartal area in the district. After the completing the cross-examination of the child victim,...
Heavy fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan continued Saturday in their conflict over the separatist territory of NagornoKarabakh, while Azerbaijans president criticized the international mediators who have tried for decades to resolve the dispute.
Beta weakened to a tropical depression on Tuesday as it crawled inland along the Texas coast south of Houston, unleashing heavy rains, flooding streets, and forcing emergency workers to rescue dozens of people.
A new Tropical Storm stirred on Friday in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Mexico as energy firms continued to reopened more offshore crude oil production shut just days earlier.
Oil prices were steady on Friday, but were on track for a second weekly fall after U.S. stock markets tumbled and U.S. stockpiles rose unexpectedly.
