New Delhi [India], May 7 (ANI): More than one lakh personnel have been deployed across the national capital and other arrangements are being as over 1.5 voters will be exercising their franchise in the Lok Sabha elections on May 25. Delhi Chief Electoral Officer P Krishnamurthy addressed a press conference on Tuesday and elaborated upon the details of poll preparation. "The process of new voter application has closed...In ..read more

Japan has embarked upon a transformative journey that signifies a departure from its conventional pacifist stance. Despite encountering pockets of domestic opposition, Japan's vision of a free and open Indo-Pacific has received increasing support from neighbouring nations. Within a regional backdrop of countering China's military modernisation and expansionism, Japan is now laying the groundwork for collective defence ..read more

Taipei [Taiwan], May 7 (ANI): James Gilmore, former US ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), assured that the US will not revoke its support to Taiwan against China, regardless of the outcome of November's US presidential elections, Nikkei Asia reported. The election and the prospect of a second Donald Trump presidency has stirred global debate -- and anxiety -- over whether Washing ..read more

Illegal performance-enhancing drug use by China's top swimmers is being covered up, Travis Tygart claims The credibility of the Paris Olympics could be in jeopardy due to performance-enhancing drug use by Chinese athletes and the pro-China bias of anti-doping regulators, the head of the US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA), Travis Tygart, has claimed. Tygart's warning came on the heels of an ..read more

© Provided by Xinhua BEIJING, May 7 (Xinhua) -- During the just-concluded May Day holiday, global tourist destinations attracted Chinese holidaymakers in their droves, displaying the ..read more

BEIJING, May 7 (Xinhua) -- During the just-concluded May Day holiday, global tourist destinations attracted Chinese holidaymakers in their droves, displaying the increasing power of China's consumption engine. Bookings for travel services from Chinese tourists during the five-day holiday from May 1 to 5 saw nearly 100 percent growth on the basis of a rapid rebound last year, according to a report from Fliggy, on ..read more

TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Iran's women's futsal team has completed top 10 of the first FIFA Futsal World Ranking. - Sports news - Team Melli Banovan sits eighth in the ranking released on Monday. FIFA has launched the official FIFA Futsal World Ranking with powerhouses Brazil the first number-one nation in both the men's and women's charts as the rapidly growing sport takes another major step forward. B ..read more

HANOI, May 7 (Xinhua) -- Torrential rain, hail with thunderstorms and lightning killed six people and injured 11 others in Vietnamese localities from May 1 to 7, according to the National Steering Committee on Natural Disaster Prevention and Control and Vietnam News Agency. On Monday afternoon, a landslide at a construction site in the central province of Ha Tinh left three workers dead and four others injured ..read more

TOKYO, May 7 (Xinhua) -- Japanese automaker Daihatsu Motor on Tuesday resumed production at its plant in the western Japanese prefecture of Osaka after a safety test fraud scandal led to operations suspension since last December. For the first time in about four months, the carmaker, a subsidiary of Toyota Motor Corp., also brought back online its finished vehicle assembly plants in Shiga, Kyoto and Oita prefect ..read more

TOKYO, May 7 (Xinhua) -- Tokyo stocks closed higher on Tuesday following the overnight gains in the U.S. stock market amid expectations for ongoing weakness of the yen. Japan's benchmark Nikkei stock index, the 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average, went up by 599.03 points, or 1.57 percent, from Thursday to close the day at 38,835.10. The broader Topix index, meanwhile, finished 17.69 points, or 0.65 percent, h ..read more