Rio de Janeiro, At least five people were killed and three others injured in an intense shootout between police and suspected drug traffickers in a favela, or slum, in Rio de Janeiro.

The dead and injured were suspected drug traffickers, Xinhua news agency quoted the police as saying.

The shootout t

Islamabad,  Pakistan has devised a plan to rebuild and restructure flood-hit areas of the country, which will be implemented during a period of six months to 10 years, an official statement said.

Minister for Planning Development and Special Initiatives Ahsan Iqbal held a meeting with economists and deve

Beijing,  Noru, the 16th storm of the 2022 Pacific typhoon season, intensified into a super typhoon again on Tuesday as it moves closer to China's Hainan province, local authorities said.

The centre of the typhoon was about 145 km southeast of Yongxing island in Sansha city, with maximum core wind ve

Wellington,  New Zealand's tourism recovery is on its way with international visitor arrivals reaching the highest level since the borders were closed in March 2020 in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, Tourism Minister Stuart Nash said on Tuesday.

For the first time since March 2020, the number of o

Dhaka,  The number of deaths due to a boat capsize in Bangladesh's Karatoya river increased to 61 on Tuesday, after 10 more bodies were recovered, a senior police official said.

The official told Xinhua news agency said the bodies were recovered from several parts of the Karatoya river in the Panchag

Washington,  The father of a woman, who was sent to a psychiatric hospital for defacing a poster of Chinese President Xi Jinping, has died suddenly in detention, with the authorities moving to cremate his remains amid suspicions of violence, media reports said.

Authorities in the central Chinese province

Stockholm,  Seismologists registered explosions near the Nord Stream pipelines in the last 36 hours, a media outlet reported, citing Swedish national broadcaster SVT.

SVT can reveal that measuring stations in both Sweden and Denmark registered strong underwater explosions in the same area as the gas leak

New Delhi,  Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday lauded the growing role of private manufacturers in defence production, describing it as an indicator in the sector's growth.

He urged the manufacturers to make a roadmap for the next 25 years and invest in research and development (R&D) and b

Mumbai,  The Indian rupee ended marginally up on Tuesday against a weak dollar, but it remained near record low levels.

The rupee ended at 81.58 as against 81.62 at close of the previous trading session.

On Monday, the rupee ended record low for the third straight session on risk-averse se

New Delhi, Qatar Airways and British Airways have completed the latest phase in the expansion of their partnership, offering global connectivity between more countries than any other airline joint business.

The airlines have added 42 new countries to their shared network, including Italy, the Maldives, Norway