At the beginning of August, when temperatures in Hong Kong hit highs not seen for at least 140 years, the Labour Department’s Heat Stress at Work Warning system remained at the amber level, the lowest of three tiers. The controversy that followed raised a broader question: are our heat warnings adequately protecting people who work…
New Delhi: Congress Sunday accused PM Modi of “calibrated capitulation” before China, claiming the trade deficit with the neighbour has ballooned to unprecedented levels.A day after the meeting between President Xi Jinping and Modi, AICC spokesman Jairam Ramesh asked four questions to the PM, ranging from his statement giving a “clean chit” to China after…
Leaders of the BRICS group of nations unanimously adopted a joint declaration on the first day of the two-day summit in the Indian capital, New Delhi, despite divisions among members over the wars in Iran and Ukraine. The New Delhi Declaration, adopted on Saturday, called for restraint in the Middle East but avoided condemning the…
Kathmandu, India has sent the first consignment of components for a 70-metre Bailey bridge to Nepal to help restore connectivity in the flood-affected Betrawati area, the Indian envoy in Kathmandu said. India sends first consignment of Bailey bridge components to flood-hit Nepal The consignment was handed over to Nepal’s Road Division in Hetauda on Saturday,…
New Delhi: India has the largest cultivated area among the BRICS nations, but its farms continue to produce far less grain per hectare than China, the bloc’s biggest cereal producer, an analysis of data provided in the BRICS Joint Statistical Publication released August 18 showed. India News Even though India’s yields of major cereals have…
A cluster comprising Hong Kong and two mainland Chinese cities has been ranked the world’s top innovation hub for the second consecutive year by a United Nations body. The Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Guangzhou cluster retained its crown in the 2026 Global Innovation Index (GII) released by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) on Tuesday. Tokyo-Yokohama, San Jose-San…
Washington: The political deadlock over the Sanctioning Russia Act – which threatens up to 100% tariffs on India and four other countries for buying Russian energy – continued in Washington on Thursday, despite an intense lobbying effort by Ukraine to secure the bill’s passage in the House of Representatives. An Italian military helicopter flies above the…
‘China wants to control and divert rivers.’ IMAGE: A scene from the film Four Rivers Six Ranges. Photographs: Kind courtesy Shenpenn Khymsar Key Points ‘About 3,800 kilometres of the Himalayan border involves Arunachal Pradesh, Ladakh and Sikkim, and China is already claiming Arunachal as part of China.’ ‘There is the Siliguri Corridor, the ‘Chicken Neck’,…
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On Wednesday, part of a glacier collapsed high in the Himalayas, triggering catastrophic flooding along the Nepal-Tibet border. At least 160 people have been confirmed dead, while nearly 1,500 people are missing across Nepal and China’s Tibet. Recommended Stories list of 2 itemsend of list In Nepal, 826 people are missing, including almost 600 foreign…
ANI | Updated: Aug 25, 2026 10:09 IST Beijing [China], August 25 (ANI): National Security Advisor Ajit Doval, who is on a two-day visit to China, held a bilateral meeting on Tuesday with China’s Vice President Han Zheng. The leaders held discussions on promoting peace and stability across the border areas while also aiming to…