Hong Kong,  Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai was denied bail on Thursday after he was charged with fraud and is likely to spend Christmas behind bars.

The West Kowloon Court charged Lai and two senior executives from Next Digital -- Royston Chow and Wong Wai-keung -- with defrauding a government-owned ent

Moscow, Russia's overall Covid-19 caseload has increased to 2,375,546 after 28,145 people were reported to be infected in the last 24 hours, a new record in single-day cases since the onset of the pandemic, health authorities said on Thursday.

The anti-coronavirus crisis centre said in a press statement that w

Kathmandu, As bilateral ties between Nepal and India have seen a thaw in recent days, the stalled high-level visits and exchanges have resumed.

After three back to back high-level visits from India -- Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla, Army Chief General MM Naravane and Chief of R&AW Samant Goel -- Kath

New Delhi, Amid the ongoing protests against the Central farm laws, Congress has demanded scrapping of all the three legislations. However, in the party manifesto for the 2019 general elections which the party had lost, it had promised to repeal the Agricultural Produce Market Committee (APMC) Act and the Essential Commodities A

Thiruvananthapuram,  Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Thursday said given the present set of indicators, Cyclone Burevi is expected to enter Kerala on Friday.

"According to the IMD, Burevi is expected to enter Indian territory at Tuticorin coast either tonight (Thursday) or tomorrow morning (Fri

Patna, The BJP's Bihar president Sanjay Jaiswal on Thursday claimed that the ongoing farmers agitation in Delhi has been sponsored by the Congress party.

"While Congress leaders are trying to present themselves different from others in the ongoing farmers agitation, the Germany unit of the Indian Overseas

Hyderabad, A fight over mutton curry not being served properly at a wedding claimed the life of a man and left another critically injured in Telangana's Yadadri Bhuvanagiri district, police.

Suraram Parusharamulu (35) died and his brother Nagaraju was injured when they were attacked with axe and sticks by Prav

New Delhi, The Centre has opposed the life ban on convicted politicians from contesting MP/MLA elections, forming a political party or becoming an office bearer of a party, telling the Supreme Court that the life ban on bureaucrats cannot be equated with similar ban on lawmakers, if convicted in a crime, as the latter are not bo

Amaravati, Senior Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress Party (YSRCP) leader and Rajya Sabha member Vijayasai Reddy V said opposition leader and former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu had repeatedly lied about the height of Polavaram project.

"The media houses reporting in his favour, Babu is rep

New Delhi, In what seems to be a paradigm shift in Kashmir politics, a large number of local independent candidates in the first District Development Council (DDC) elections are fiercely exploiting the dissatisfaction among the masses over the poor quality of governance delivered by the previous regimes, to pose a strong challen