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In the end, it was so very West Indies; frantic and chaotic. A dozen runs to defend in the last over, a skilled death-overs operator barraging yorkers, yet the defending champions nearly contrived to lose the game that would have…

Washington, Oct 29 (UNI/Sputnik) US Senators Ted Cruz, Todd Young and Roger Marshall introduced legislation this week that would exempt India and other allies from being hit with sanctions over their business with the Russian military due…

New Delhi, Oct 29 (UNI) India-Israel Joint Working Group (JWG) on Bilateral Defence Cooperation has agreed to form a Task Force to formulate a comprehensive ten-year roadmap to identify new areas of cooperation. The decision was taken in…

New Delhi, Oct 29 (UNI) India takes the opportunities and challenges of the Indo-Pacific very seriously, which can be seen in its Indo-Pacific Oceans Initiative, the Quad vaccine collaboration, and even in New Delhi’s global endeavours…

Vintage David Warner answered his critics with a sizzling 42-ball-65 as Australia cruised to seven-wicket victory over Sri Lanka in a Super 12 game of the ICC T20 World Cup here on Thursday. Warner, who has gone through a lean patch, was…

United Nations/New Delhi, Oct 28 (UNI) External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Thursday said that while African states constitute more than one-fourth of the UN membership, continued denial of representation to them in the UNSC…

New Delhi, Oct 28 (UNI) One of the important events at the COP26 in Glasgow will be the launch of the Global Green Grids Initiative-One Sun One World One Grid (OSOWOG) of the International Solar Alliance, a global solar grid linking 140…

Washington, Oct 28 (UNI/Sputnik) Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin told Turkish Minister of National Defense Hulusi Akar in a phone call that the United States recognizes Turkey’s military modernization needs, Pentagon spokesperson John…

Warsaw, Oct 28 (UNI/Sputnik) Poland wants to build a nuclear power plant with France, Pawel Soloch, the head of the Polish National Security Bureau, said on Thursday. On Wednesday, Polish President Andrzej Duda began an official visit to…

Kathmandu, Oct 28 (UNI) Nepal’s former ambassador to the United States, Shankar Sharma, has been recommended as the next ambassador to India, a news report said. Nepal Home Minister Bal Krishna Khand said the government had recommended…

Berlin, Oct 28 (UNI/Xinhua) Germany registered 28,037 new Covid-19 infections within one day, almost 12,000 more than a week ago, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) announced on Thursday. The seven-day incidence rate soared to 130.2 cases…

Kabul, Oct 28 (UNI) Tajik officials have said that China has offered to build a $8.6 million military base on the border of Tajikistan with Afghanistan where Tajik military personnel will be stationed. The police outpost, which is later…

Indian-origin Canadian politician Anita Anand was on Tuesday appointed as the country’s new Defence Minister in a Cabinet reshuffle by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, over a month after his Liberal Party returned power in the snap polls and…

In recent weeks, the Chinese government has revealed new plans to consolidate its control over the media landscape in China. On October 8, China’s National Development and Reform Commission, which oversees the country’s social and economic…

The leaders of Russia and China aren’t coming. Turkey nearly set off a diplomatic incident on the eve of the meeting. And the United States, Australia and France will be at the same table for the first time since Washington pulled the rug…

Donald Trump’s social media company will get tens of millions in special bonus shares in a new publicly traded entity if it performs well, handing the former president possibly billions of dollars in paper wealth based on current stock…

Bayern Munich usually deals out the thrashings in Germany, not the other way around. The Bavarian powerhouse got a taste of its own medicine on Wednesday when Borussia Monchengladbach knocked Bayern out of the German Cup with a fully…

Captain Eoin Morgan on Wednesday said England’s impressive run in the T20 World Cup so far has been a “huge compliment” of the progress made by the side in white ball cricket in recent times. England dished out a thoroughly clinical…

Washington, Oct 27 (UNI) There are 439 American still trapped in Afghanistan and the US is in contact with most of them, said the Pentagon during a Senate hearing. Khaama Press quoted US undersecretary of defense Colin Kahul as saying…

Dubai/New Delhi, Oct 27 (UNI) Minister of State for External Affairs V. Muraleedharan on Wednesday visited the India Pavilion at the Dubai Expo 2020, and also held talks with the Saudi Minister for Human Resources & Social Development…