Mamata Banerjee has been “clean bowled” and her entire team has been asked to leave the field, Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared yesterday.

A Hong Kong newspaper that is critical of Beijing said yesterday its printing presses were ransacked by a gang of men wielding sledgehammers.

The Tarabi prayers, this Ramadan, at the Grand Mosque in Makkah and the Prophet’s Mosque in Madinah will be shortened to 10 raka’ts from 20 by order of the custodian of the two holy mosques, King Salman bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia.

Ecuadorean banker Guillermo Lasso pulled off a surprise win in presidential runoff against socialist economist Andres Arauz, putting the country on track to maintain open market policies rather than return to socialism.

China’s failure to provide access to global health experts made the Covid-19 pandemic worse than it had to be, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said, and it was important to “get to the bottom” of the origin of the novel coronavirus.

Most CEOs on a call to discuss a new push against US state voting restrictions said in a poll they will reassess donating to candidates who fail to support voting rights, while many will consider holding back investments in states that restrict voting access, according to people familiar with the matter.

Australia has abandoned a goal to vaccinate nearly all of its 26 million population by the end of 2021 following advice that people under the age of 50 take Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine rather than AstraZeneca’s shot.

A problem with the electrical distribution grid of Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility caused an incident at the site yesterday, Iranian Press TV reported, a day

Twenty-one miners are trapped in a flooded coalmine in northwest China’s Xinjiang region, Chinese state news agency Xinhua reported yesterday,

Former President Donald Trump vowed to help Republicans win seats in Congress in 2022 elections but lashed out at two top party figures, Senate

India yesterday banned the export of anti-viral drug Remdesivir and its active pharmaceutical ingredients as demand rocketed due to a record surge in Covid-19 infections and led to crippling shortages in many parts.

Fierce fighting for Yemen’s strategic Marib city has killed 70 pro-government and Huthi rebel fighters over the past 24 hours, with battles raging on three fronts, loyalist military officials said yesterday.

The European Union’s top diplomat yesterday said Russia and China were hampering a united international response to Myanmar’s military coup and that the EU could offer more economic incentives if democracy returns to the country.

China is planning a mega dam in Tibet able to produce triple the electricity generated by the Three Gorges -- the world’s largest power station -- stoking fears among environmentalists and in neighbouring India.

Tropical cyclone Seroja strenthened off Western Australia on Sunday, with emergency services opening shelters in preparation for high winds and coastal flooding later in the evening.

Former US president Donald Trump vowed to help Republicans win seats in Congress in 2022 elections but lashed out at two top party figures, Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell and former vice president Mike Pence, at a donor retreat.

The mother of three children — all under the age of 5 — found slain inside a Los Angeles apartment has been arrested, police said.

Eight miners have been rescued and 21 remain trapped in a coal mine that flooded in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, state-backed newspaper China Daily reported citing local authorities.

The coronavirus variant discovered in South Africa can “break through” Pfizer/BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine to some extent, a real-world data study found.

The tiny eastern Caribbean island of Saint Vincent was blanketed with a thin layer of ash and a “strong sulphur” smell hung in the air a day after a volcano spectacularly erupted after decades of inactivity.