Kampala, A grenade explosion killed four children and injured five others on Thursday in Maaji II Refugee Settlement in the northwestern Ugandan district of Adjumani, police said.

Local police in a statement said the children picked the explosive from bush and took it home, where they were joined by other children

Cairo,  Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi held talks with visiting Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on boosting security and economic cooperation between the two countries, said the Egyptian presidency in a statement.

Sisi and Qureshi discussed bolstering ties between Egypt and Pakis

Kathmandu,  Nepal government on Wednesday granted emergency use approval to a Covid-19 vaccine developed by the Beijing Institute of Biological Products Co Ltd. (BIBP) in China under Sinopharm.

Nepal has already granted approval for AstraZeneca's Covishield vaccine on January 15.

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New Delhi,  Alok Sharma, an Indian-origin minister in Prime Minister Boris Johnson's cabinet in the UK, has travelled to India to strengthen close working ties and discuss taking action on the shared challenge of climate change ahead of the UN climate talks slated to be held at the end of this year.

New Delhi,  The Supreme Court on Wednesday said while exercising its jurisdiction under the Constitution's Article 226, the High Court is entitled to enquire into whether the action of the state or its instrumentalities is arbitrary or unfair and in consequence, in violation of Article 14.

A bench co

New Delhi,  Fearing that the ongoing farmers' agitation will adversely affect the party in 40 Lok Sabha seats spread across Western Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Rajasthan, the top BJP leadership has gone into a hurdle to find a way out to reach out to the Jat community predominant in these regions.

The

Amaravati,  Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy on Wednesday extended birthday greetings to neighbouring Telugu state Telangana's Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao, who turned 67 on Wednesday.

"Greetings to Telangana CM K. Chandrasekhar Rao on his birthday. I pray to God to bl

Chittoor (Andhra Pradesh),  A criminal was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly murdering a Hindu monk found dead under suspicious circumstances in Andhra Pradesh's Chittoor district last month, police said.

Bathala Ramachandra (40), a resident of Saraswathipuram in the district but living in Jangalap

Lucknow, The Uttar Pradesh government has put on alert all law enforcing agencies following the call for a four-hour rail blockage from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. on Thursday by the Sanyukt Kisan Sangharsh Samiti.

The railway ministry has put the Railway Protection Force (RPF) and Government Railway Police (GRP) on high al

Guwahati,  Two journalists of an online news portal were arrested while three others were detained on Wednesday for their reported attempt to slander Assam minister and senior BJP leader Himanta Biswa Sarma after they shared a photo of the minister along with his daughter with a "malicious intent", the police