New Delhi, Sep 3 Several foreign envoys, who attended the commissioning ceremony of India's first indigenous aircraft carrier INS Vikrant in Kochi on Friday, have acknowledged the country's rise as a global power. Hailing India's growing defence manufacturing prowess, the foreign ambassadors also committed to making stronger partnerships with New ...

Rome, Sep 3 World food prices declined slightly in August, despite rising energy and transportation costs and disruptions to supply chains, the Rome-based Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said. Meanwhile, long-term prospects for the global food situation remain negative due to a combination of cost, logistical, and environmental factors, Xinhua ...

London, Sep 3 About 41 per cent of Black, brown and minority ethnic workers (BME) in the UK say they have "faced racism at work in the last five years", according to a latest study. The situation is even more serious among younger people -- about 52 per cent of ...

New York, Sep 2 As more anti-Hindu incidents are reported across the US, artificial intelligence has been deployed to monitor Hinduphobic tweets and the results, which can be viewed in real-time, are also collated and published in monthly reports, according to Ramesh Rao, the editor of India Facts, a US-based ...

Warsaw, Sep 2 Poland's ruling party leader said that his country would seek 6.2 trillion zloty ($1.31 trillion) in compensation from Germany for the destruction caused by the Nazis during the Second World War. Jaroslaw Kaczynski, leader of the Law and Justice party, made the claim at a ceremony presenting ...

Madrid, Sep 2 Spain's tourism sector continues to recover from the Covid-19 pandemic, with the Statistical Office (INE) confirming that the country welcomed 39.3 million foreign travellers in the first seven months of this year. Although this is still below the 48 million visitors registered in the same period of ...

London, Sep 1 Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) is organising a week-long programme in England to observe the first death anniversary of glib-tongued Syed Ali Shah Geelani, who after swearing by the Constitution of India to fight the Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir, died yearning to join Pakistan. But, his ...

Dharamsala, Sep 1 Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama has mourned the demise of Mikhail Gorbachev, former leader of the Soviet Union, saying he had enormous respect for him and his efforts to introduce greater openness and transformation as well as for his opposition to nuclear war. In a letter ...

Taipei, Aug 31 The head of a US agency that monitors religious freedom around the world has warned that Taiwanese may face a similar fate like the persecuted Uyghurs in western Chinas Xinjiang region if Beijing invades the democratic island nation, media reports said. "The Communist authorities have made it ...

London, Aug 31 The death of Mikhail Gorbachev could prove a point of yet more tension between Russia and the West as it emerged on Wednesday the former Soviet leader may not receive a state funeral, media reports said. Gorbachev died on Tuesday at the age of 91 in the ...