US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper met British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace at the Pentagon over security ties and regional issues.

Esper and Wallace on Thursday discussed mutual security concerns, the security situation in the Middle East, Africa, and Afghanistan, Xinhua news agency reported citing a Pentagon statement as

The European Union (EU) and the UK ended the first round of negotiations here but with big divergences.

"Our differences come as no surprise, especially after only one round of negotiations, but some are very difficult," Xinhua news agency quoted EU chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier as saying following the talks on

Bhutanese Prime Minister Lotay Tshering announced on Friday that one positive coronavirus case has been confirmed in the country and the patient is a US tourist who arrived here via Guwahati, Assam.

"We would like to inform the public that one positive case of COVID-19 was confirmed at 11 p.m. on March 5, and the result was v

The Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) has filed a petition in the Supreme Court challenging the Lahore High Court (LHC) verdict which declared as unconstitutional the award of capital punishment to former President Pervez Musharraf by a special court.

The petition filed on Thursday appealed to the apex court to set aside the high court j

Facebook has removed several advertorials run by US President Donald Trump's re-election campaign which were promoted as 2020 US census ads.

The social networking giant said the action was taken to "prevent confusion around the official US census" which begins from March 12, CNN said in a report on Thursday.
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The US dollar declined in late trading on Thursday as investors digested key economic data.

US initial jobless claims, a rough way to measure layoffs, stood at 2,16,000 in the week ending February 29, a decrease of 3,000 from the previous week's unrevised level, the Department of Labor reported Thursday.

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 The World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Thursday that it's launching a new social media campaign urging people to be safe, smart and informed when faced by the COVID-19 outbreak.

"We know people are afraid, and that's normal and appropriate ... That fear can be managed and moderated with accurate inform

High-velocity winds and rain damaged standing crops in parts of Punjab and Haryana in the past 24 hours, officials said here on Friday.

Many parts of both the states have been lashed by high-velocity winds since Thursday.

"Our wheat crop, normally harvested in mid-April, has been flattened by rain and strong wi

In an interesting case, a woman in Uttar Pradesh has been booked for allegedly cutting down 18 green mango trees without obtaining the felling permit from the forest authority.

The police in Pilibhit have registered a case against the main accused, Satendra Kaur of Deshnagar, who owns the orchard where the trees were lopped, and t

Calling suspended AAP councillor, Tahir Hussain a "terrorist", BJP MLA Sangeet Som has said that people like Hussain "should be shot dead publicly".

"Aise log (Tahir Hussain) aatankwadi hai, aise logon ko chaurahe par khada karke goli maar deni chahiye (Tahir Hussain is a terrorist. He should be made to st