San Salvador,  El Salvador President Nayib Bukele has announced that he would send a bill to Congress next week to make the bitcoin cryptocurrency a legal tender in the Central American country, in what will be a world first.

Bukele announced the move in a pre-recorded message played on Saturday at the B

Brussels,  NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Sunday warned Russia and Belarus against threatening the alliance's allies, following the forced landing of a passenger plane within the European Union (EU0 by Belarusian authorities.

"We are of course ready, in an emergency, to protect and d

Colombo,  Heavy rains followed by landslides and flooding in Sri Lanka killed at least 14 people and has affected over 250,000 more in the past two days with warnings that adverse weather conditions will continue, officials said on Sunday.

South-west monsoon rains settling in the country's western, s

Baghdad,  The Iraqi Army said two drones were shot down on Sunday over a military base hosting US-led international forces fighting the Islamic State (IS) terror group.

The air defence system at the Ain al-Assad base, located in western Iraq, intercepted and shot down the two drones, the Iraqi military-l

London,  The G7 group of leading economies have reached "a historic agreement" to reform the global tax system to make it fit for the global digital age.

Speaking outside Winfield House in London's Regents Park on Saturday, the US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said the minimum rate of at

Lucknow,  The Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh has received 96 proposals for investment worth Rs 66,000 crore since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Land has been allocated to 18 investors who have submitted proposals worth Rs 16,000 crore.

According to a government spokes

Mahoba (UP),  A newly elected Dalit woman village pradhan in Uttar Pradesh has alleged that she was abused, forcefully evicted from her chair and made to sit on the floor by some local influential persons during her maiden meeting with the officials in Mahoba district.

The incident has been reported from Nath

Chandigarh,  To meet the challenges of the emerging business dynamics by grooming managers of the future, the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Amritsar launched its new two-year Executive MBA program in a non-residential hybrid mode with an intake of 40 working professionals.

The first batch of the E

New Delhi,  Delhi's Govind Ballabh Pant Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research (GIPMER) has withdrawn its order released a day ago directing all nursing staff to use only Hindi and English language for communication at the premises of the healthcare facility.

The hospital administr

New Delhi,  Punjab, Chandigarh, Tamil Nadu, Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Kerala have occupied the highest grade (Grade A++) in Performance Grading Index (PGI) 2019-20.

The information comes after the Centre on Sunday approved the release of the grading index for states and Union Territories (UTs) that