The global coronavirus caseload has topped 232.7 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 4.76 million and vaccinations soared to over 6.14 billion, according to the Johns Hopkins University....
General Mark Milley, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, has said during a Senate hearing that it is a "strategic failure" with the Taliban back in power and US withdrawal from Afghanistan....
Air Canada, which operates daily flights between Delhi and Toronto, announced on Monday it is resuming non-stop flights to and from Delhi....
On the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, public, private and philanthropic donors announced $138.1 million in new contributions to the world body's global fund, Education Cannot Wait (ECW)....
The US is prepared to meet North Korea without any pre-conditions, a State Department spokesperson said....
US State Department spokesperson Ned Price announced that he has tested positive for Covid-19 and will quarantine for te next 10 days....
US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman will be visiting India next month for bilateral meetings with Indian officials and to attend the India Ideas Summit, according to the State Department....
Joe Biden has no immediate plans to call Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, who has blamed Washington for the Afghanistan mess and its fallout in Islamabad, according to the US President's spokesperson Jen Psaki....
As the US is witnessing an unabated resurgence of new Covid-19 cases, particularly among unvaccinated Americans, some funeral homes in the state of Idaho are running out of space, according to a media report....
Homicides in the US rose nearly 30 per cent last year from 2019, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) Uniform Crime Report for 2020. ...
