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The police on Wednesday lobbed teargas shells and used water cannon to disperse protesting school teachers here, who had lost their jobs because of faulty recruitment policy. The police also baton-charged the teachers, who were marching in a procession...

United Nations, Sep 23 (AP) Kenya's president has given a generational jolt to the 75-year-old United Nations, pointing out that the world body is older than 96% of the global population. In a prerecorded speech on Wednesday at the UN General Assembly,...

Four people died of COVID-19 in Meghalaya on Wednesday, pushing the death toll in the state to 42, a senior health official said. A 68-year-old woman died of COVID-19 in South West Garo Hills district, while three men lost their lives in the East Khasi...

Vice President Mike Pence is bringing President Donald Trumps lawandorder campaign message to Minneapolis on Thursday, showing support for law enforcement in the city where George Floyd's death after police tried to arrest him sparked angry and sometimes...

A Supreme Court-mandated pollution control authority on Wednesday wrote to Haryana and Rajasthan about the "horrible" condition of their industrial areas and criticised their officials for "taking things easy". Environment Pollution (Prevention and Cont...

Five more COVID-19 patients died in Himachal Pradesh on Wednesday, pushing the death toll to 136, while 280 fresh cases took the state tally to 13,050. Additional Chief Secretary (Health) R D Dhiman said two deaths were reported each from Mandi and Ka...

Hundreds of migrants have taken advantage of the warm weather and calm seas in the English Channel to reach the U.K. in a flurry of small boat crossings, British officials said Wednesday.

The Haryana government has allowed reopening of universities and colleges amid COVID-19 outbreak to enable the students to seek guidance from their teachers, with a trial run to start from September 26. In a communication, dated September 22, to all uni...

Some South Carolina teachers took a personal day Wednesday to fight for safer classrooms amid the pandemic as well as an annual small raise that was frozen after the economy crashed because of the virus.

Here is a timeline of events that began with the death of Breonna Taylor, a Black woman whose killing by police in her home in Kentucky has encouraged a national reckoning on race:

Sultry weather troubled residents in the national capital on Wednesday, as rains give the city a miss again. Kuldeep Srivastava, the head of the India Meteorological Department's regional forecasting centre, said any precipitation is unlikely in Delhi...

Zhejiang Geely Holding Group launched its first electric vehiclefocused platform on Wednesday, aimed at rolling out a variety of models more efficiently for both the Chinese automaker and its partners.

Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz vice president Maryam Nawaz on Wednesday said political decisions should be made in Parliament and not at the army headquarters. The 46-year-old daughter of former premier Nawaz Sharif was responding to a question from a repor...

The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq retreated on Wednesday as data showed domestic business activity nudged down in September, while a record high for Nike following a strong quarterly earnings report boosted the bluechip Dow.

Tiger Shroff's sister Krishna has shared a slow motion video of her walking with boyfriend Eban Hyams on a beach in Australia.

Microsoft and OpenAI already have an ongoing cloud computing contract, where Microsoft's Azure is being offered a platform for OpenAI to train its models.