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U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday flatly rejected the need for direct action to address racism in the United States, dismissing his predecessor's call for sweeping steps to boost civil and voting rights ahead of the Nov. 3 election.

The tablet, which will be sold under the brand name 'Favizen', is being manufactured at Zenar's US FDA approved facility in Hyederabad.

Tents erected in a school gym in the South Korean city of Anseong provided shelter on Wednesday for some families among more than 1,000 people made homeless by landslides and floods caused by the country's longest period of rain in seven years.

These are the top stories we are covering this afternoon: PM Narendra Modi to lay the foundation stone for Ram Temple in Ayodhya; ammonium nitrate explosion claims more than 70 lives in Beirut; India’s Covid-19 tally jumps 1 lakh in two days; Sushant Sing...

Allowing an anticipatory bail prayer by a reporter who had published a news article on an online portal on illegal sand mining, the court said there was hardly any necessity for him to be taken into custody.

The four were arrested based on an FIR lodged by the director of Health Services at the New Capital Complex (NCC) police station.

South Korean officials are working to keep more than a thousand people displaced by flooding safe and healthy with anticoronavirus measures in place at crowded shelters as the government weighed declaring disaster zones on Wednesday.

Latin America surpassed Europe on Tuesday to become the region with the highest coronavirus death toll worldwide, according to a Reuters tally.

Banks' obligations to keep cash ‘ringfenced’ within countries could reduce lending to Asian economies grappling with the fallout from the new coronavirus outbreak, a financial industry group said on Wednesday in a report.

Satyarthi urged the global community to come together in 2021, the UN Year for Elimination of Child Labour to prioritise children in policies, resources and urgency of collective action.

Petitioners - Kalyani Badola and Tanvi Nair were sent to judicial custody in a case lodged against them for alleged offences under the Contempt of Courts Act and under various sections of IPC.

The Ministry also said that National Board of Wildlife (NBWL)'s standing committee approval will be required for projects that are located in areas linking one protected area to another like tiger reserves.

Indian women's football team member Dalima Chhibber said girl's football has to be encouraged at club, school and college level for overall improvement.

Swaminathan said as of now about 28 vaccine candidates for COVID-19 are under clinical trial, of which five are entering Phase-II and over 150 candidates are in pre-clinical trials across the globe.

All the temples in the state that come under the purview of the Hindu Religious Institutions and Charitable Endowment department and also the private shrines have been asked to hold the special prayers and poojas through priests during the groundbreaking...

Other staff members at the Chief Minister's Office (CMO) have also given their samples for examination, he said.