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Tokyo:  A magnitude 6.6 earthquake hit northern Japan near the major city of Sapporo at the wee hours on Thursday. Japan’s Meteorological Agency said, the earthquake struck the northern island of Hokkaido at about 3 AM local time at the…

New Delhi: Vice President of India M. Venkaiah Naidu will address the 2nd World Hindu Congress (WHC) in Chicago. According to a statement by the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), Naidu is slated to embark on a two-day visit from…

Kabul: The founder of the Haqqani network, one of Afghanistan's most effective and feared terror groups, has died after years of ill health, a Taliban spokesman said on Tuesday. Jalaluddin Haqqani was 72. "Just as he endured great…

Rio de Janeiro: A massive fire has engulfed the 200-year-old National Museum here in Brazil, probably destroying more than 20 million items in the museum. So far, there have been no reports of any injuries in the mishap that broke out on…

Kathmandu: At least five passengers on board were injured after a domestic aircraft of a private air service provider skidded off the runway of Tribhuwan International Airport (TIA). While speaking to ANI, General Manager Raj Kumar…

New Delhi: The fourth Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) Summit will begin at Kathmandu in Nepal on Thursday. Top leaders of the member states including Prime Minister Narendra Modi will…

New York: Veteran Indian development economist and UN official Satya S Tripathi has been appointed as Assistant Secretary-General and Head of the New York Office of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). The appointment made on…

Jalalabad (Afghanistan): At least two people were killed in a suicide attack near the Election Commission office in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province today. According to Nangarhar governor’s spokesperson Attaullah Khogyanai, the attack…

Lima:  A magnitude 7.1 quake struck nearly 250 km (155 miles) northwest of Puerto Maldonado, Peru, in the early hours of Friday. The U.S. Geological Survey informed that, the quake's depth was 609.5 km and occurred at 9:04 am (UTC).…

Paris: The French authorities on Thursday informed that a man killed two people, reportedly his mother and sister, and wounded a third person with a knife in the run-down south-western suburb of Trappes, close to Versailles. The knife…