The exchange of threats follows General Upendra Dwivedi’s warning to Pakistan. (Reuters) Pakistan’s defence minister Khawaja Asif on Sunday threatened India by saying that if there is another ...

September 1914. As the First World War unfolded, a little-known but pivotal encounter transpired in the Indian Ocean—The Battle of Zanzibar. Here, the German Kaiserliche Marine clashed with the ...

A new map detailing the precise locations of farms has sparked an uproar. Source: Farm Transparency Project A controversial new world map has been released by an Australian team to reveal the ...

It was a one-two finish for Brazil as Christian Gabriel Luiz Da Costa won the silver medal with a timing of 11.23sec. Indonesia’s Saptoyogo Purnomo won the bronze (11.29sec) Brazil’s Ricardo de ...

India’s long wait for a world medal in recurve archery stretched further as Gatha Khadake, 15, the country’s last hope, went down fighting to World No. 1 Lim Si-hyeon in the pre-quarterfinals, ending ...

DOHA: Qatar National Library (QNL) organised and hosted a workshop at its premises celebrating Qatar’s successful contribution to the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Agriculture (DA) and the World Bank have agreed to structure a $70-million climate insurance fund as a co-insurance pool that will bring in private insurers ...

The Mercator map, first created in the 16th century, has long been the standard map used for navigation and education, but it stretches land masses farther from the equator. For example, Greenland ...

The African Union has endorsed the #CorrectTheMap Campaign, a call for the United Nations and the wider global community to use a different kind of world map. The campaign currently has over 4,500 ...

The Mercator projection, a centuries-old map style from the age of sail, still prevails in the internet age. Here’s what the African Union wants to use instead ...

African nations are calling for the world map to be redrawn to show the “greatness of the continent”. The African Union has said most maps skew the size of land masses, making Africa seem much smaller ...