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West Bengal logs highest-ever turnout: 92.88% in phase 1, final count awaited
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West Bengal records 92% turnout in first phase of polling
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Voting underway in India's West Bengal and Tamil Nadu
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West Bengal goes to polls amid SIR row
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Vietnam, South Korea sign deals on tech, nuclear power
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Ukraine war, absence of Xi, Putin set to dent G20 summit
Deeper and more entrenched divisions over Russia’s war in Ukraine risk derailing progress on issues such as food security, debt distress and global cooperation on climate change when the world’s most powerful nations meet this weekend in New Delhi.
4 September 2023, 18:00 PM
Xi to skip G20 summit
Premier Li Qiang will lead China’s delegation to the G20 summit in India this weekend, Beijing said yesterday, all but confirming President Xi Jinping will snub the meeting of the world’s biggest economies.
4 September 2023, 18:00 PM
India ease into Super Fours
India skipper Rohit Sharma and Shubman Gill remained unbeaten as the seven-time champions hammered cricketing minnows Nepal by 10 wickets in yesterday’s rain-hit match to enter the Super Four stage of the Asia Cup.
4 September 2023, 18:00 PM
ANN ramps up cooperation to amplify Asia’s voice
Representatives of 15 news titles in Asia emphasised the need for elevating cooperation and making Asia's voice heard during today's Asia News Network annual board meeting in Beijing
4 September 2023, 14:05 PM
Hong Kong saw hottest summer on record in 2023
Hong Kong experienced its hottest summer on record this year, with the city seeing "record-breaking" temperatures, the government said Monday, the latest region to experience the impact of a warming planet.
4 September 2023, 10:46 AM
Chandrayaan-3 Vikram lander makes soft-landing on moon again
The Vikram lander of India’s successful moon mission, Chandrayaan-3, underwent a hop test when it made a soft-landing again on the lunar surface.
4 September 2023, 08:11 AM
Bomb attack on Myanmar border hub kills 5 officials, wounds 11
A bomb attack on a government compound in the Myanmar border hub of Myawady killed five government and security officials and wounded 11 policemen, sources told AFP on Monday
4 September 2023, 07:12 AM
N Korea stages tactical nuclear attack drill
North Korea conducted a simulated tactical nuclear attack drill that included two long-range cruise missiles in an exercise to “warn enemies” the country would be prepared in case of nuclear war, the KCNA state news agency said yesterday.
3 September 2023, 18:00 PM
INDIA bloc ‘hates Hinduism’
The remark on Sanatana Dharma by DMK chief MK Stalin’s minister son shows that the Opposition bloc INDIA “hates Hinduism” and is “an attack on our heritage”, India’s Union Home Minister Amit Shah said yesterday.
3 September 2023, 18:00 PM
Rethink priorities for 21st century
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi called on the United Nations to reform in line with 21st century realities to ensure the representation of voices that matter, according to an interview published yesterday.
3 September 2023, 18:00 PM
Indonesia offers 'golden visa' to entice foreign investors
Indonesia is introducing a golden visa scheme to attract foreign individual and corporate investors in an attempt to boost its national economy, a statement from the ministry of law and human rights distributed on Sunday said
3 September 2023, 06:34 AM
Imran rules out ‘deal’, vows never to leave Pakistan: lawyer
PTI Chairman Imran Khan, who is incarcerated in Attock Jail, has ruled out "any deal to seek his release and asserted he would never leave Pakistan," his lawyers claimed, after meeting the ex-prime minister
3 September 2023, 06:01 AM
India launches spacecraft to study the sun
Following quickly on the success of India’s moon landing, the country’s space agency launched a rocket yesterday to study the sun in its first such solar mission.
2 September 2023, 18:00 PM
Taiwan expresses support of Vatican-China exchange
Taiwan said yesterday it supported the efforts of the Vatican to reach out to Beijing and hoped the move would improve China’s “deteriorating religious freedom and human rights issue”.
2 September 2023, 18:00 PM
North Korea fires multiple cruise missiles
North Korea fired multiple cruise missiles off its west coast yesterday, Seoul’s military said, the latest in a string of recent Pyongyang military actions.
2 September 2023, 18:00 PM
ISRO plans to put moon lander in sleep mode as one lunar day nears end
As India's Chandrayaan-3 nears the conclusion of its planned exploration period of one lunar day, equivalent to 14 days on earth, the Indian Space Research Organization today says it is preparing to put the lander and the rover in sleep mode
2 September 2023, 13:36 PM
North Korea fires multiple cruise missiles: Seoul
North Korea fired multiple cruise missiles off its west coast on Saturday, Seoul's military said, the latest in a string of recent Pyongyang military actions..The launches come three days after the North launched a pair of short-range ballistic missiles as part of a "tactical nuclear strik
2 September 2023, 02:55 AM
Nine soldiers killed in Pakistan
Nine soldiers were killed in a restive western region of Pakistan on Thursday after a suicide bomber rammed his motorbike into their military convoy and detonated, army and officials said.
1 September 2023, 18:00 PM
Super Typhoon Saola sweeps towards southern China cities
Tens of millions of people in Hong Kong, Shenzhen and other southern Chinese megacities sheltered indoors yesterday as Super Typhoon Saola threatened to become the strongest storm to hit the region in decades.
1 September 2023, 18:00 PM
Impact of Climate Change: Heat records topple across sweltering Asia
Temperature records are being toppled across Asia, from India’s summer to Australia’s winter, authorities said yesterday, in fresh evidence of the impact of climate change.
1 September 2023, 18:00 PM