New York,  Indian-origin journalist Megha Rajagopalan has won the US' top journalism award, the Pulitzer Prize, for innovative investigative reports harnessing satellite technology that exposed China's mass detention camps for Muslim Uighurs and other minority ethnicites.

The award in the interna

Tel Aviv,  Israel will further ease restrictions on the entry of foreign tourists starting from July 1, according to a statement issued by the country's Population and Immigration Authority.

Since March 2020, non-Israelis have been given permits to enter only if they are vaccinated or have recovered

Jakarta,  Indonesia's most active volcano, Mount Merapi has emitted hot clouds three times up to 2 km into the sky from its peak, according to the Geological Disaster Technology Research and Development Centre.

The first hot clouds were erupted at 8.11 a.m. on Friday to as high as 2,000 metres for 16

Bern,  Switzerland plans to ease entry restrictions for vaccinated foreign tourists unless they come from a country where a "worrying variant" of the novel coronavirus is circulating, the Federal Council, the country's highest executive body, said.

The easing of entry restrictions, expected

Washington,  The White House announced that it has returned more than $2 billion of military funds to the Pentagon that former President Donald Trump had diverted for building the controversial border wall on the country's southern border with Mexico.

The funds will now be used for 66 military projec

Kolkata,  More and more soldiers in Myanmar, fed up with the orders to shoot peaceful protesters since the February 1 coup, are in revolt mode and have joined the movement for restoring democracy in the country.

IANS joined an online discussion organised by the civil society organisation Thanakha Global

Kabul,  Afghan security forces have repelled an overnight attack by Taliban on two districts in Kunduz province, killing at least 27 militants and injuring 15 others, the police confirmed on Saturday.

One member of the security forces was also killed in the operation, Xinhua news agency reported.

Moscow,  Just days ahead of the much-awaited summit with his American counterpart Joe Biden, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Russia-US relations were at their lowest point in years.

"We have a bilateral relationship that has deteriorated to its lowest point in recent years," Putin to

Kabul,  At least five civilians were shot dead by unidentified gunmen in Kabul, police in the Afghan capital said on Saturday.

Late Friday night, the victims were singled out by the gunmen from several vehicles carrying civilians from a wedding party and were kidnapped from the Arghand-e-Payyan area, the

New Delhi,  As the world faces acute semiconductor or chip shortage, a team of Google researchers is working on to design next-generation artificial-intelligence (AI) chips, and has created an AI model that allows chip design to be performed by artificial agents with more experience than any human desi