Highlights: 4 labourers crushed to death by goods train in Odisha

An earthquake of magnitude 5.6 struck Java, Indonesia early on Thursday, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said, reported Reuters. 

The United States will push back on China's targeting of American companies such as memory chipmaker Micron Technology Inc, a campaign Washington considers politically motivated and unfair, U.S. Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns said on Wednesday.

In May, China's cyberspace regulator said Micron Technology would be barred from selling to operators of key infrastructure. Burns said Chinese authorities have targeted five U.S. companies in recent months: Micron, Deloitte, and consultancies Bain & Company, Capvision, and Mintz Group.

"It's not happening to companies of other countries, but it is to ours," Burns told a U.S. Global Leadership Coalition forum in Washington via video link from Beijing.

Prominent news presenter Gitanjali Aiyar on Wednesday passed away. Spanning over three decades as national broadcaster, she one of the first English news presenters in the country. Read more

Rain drizzles parts of Kerala's Thiruvananthapuram.

Union sports minister Anurag Thakur on Wednesday said the government will complete its investigation over allegations by wrestlers against Wrestling Federation of India president Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh by June 15 and file a chargesheet. Read more

Four labourers were killed and four others injured after being run over by a goods train at Jajpur Road Railway station in Odisha on Wednesday. Read more

The Centre has sought time till June 15 for the investigations to conclude, but the wrestlers' protest is not over yet, grappler Sakshi Malik on Wednesday said. Malik's statement comes after she and her fellow wrestlers met Union minister Anurag Thakur. Read more

Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Wednesday backed the Aam Aadmi Party against the Centre's ordinance on control of services in the national capital. Read more

Mukhtar Ansari's close aide mafia Sanjeev Maheshwari alias Jeeva shot dead in Lucknow court. The attackers had come in the garb of lawyers.

Police in Maharashtra’s Kolhapur on Wednesday resorted to lathi charge to disperse a crowd that pelted stones during a protest against the alleged use of Tipu Sultan’s image along with an objectionable audio message as social media “status” by a few locals, an official said. (PTI)

The Union cabinet has approved increased MSP for Kharif crops for marketing season 2023-24. This move is to ensure remunerative prices to growers for their produce and to encourage crop diversification," said Union minister Piyush Goyal on Wednesday. Read full story

Cabinet approved a $11 billion revival package for telecom firm BSNL on Wednesday.

China expressed "serious concern" Wednesday over the destruction of a major Russian-held dam in Ukraine, with Beijing saying it feared the "humanitarian, economic and ecological impacts" of the incident.

Upon conclusion of his Namibia visit, External Affairs Minister (EAM) S Jaishankar highlighted that Project Cheetah has emerged as a "new symbol of friendship between India and Namibia."

Mexican Foreign Affairs Secretary Marcelo Ebrard said Tuesday he will resign his position next week to dedicate himself to seeking the nomination of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s party to be its presidential candidate in next year’s election.

China's total trade with Russia in May soared to levels not seen since the beginning of Moscow's war in Ukraine, official data showed Wednesday, as Beijing steps up support for its sanctions-hit ally.

Trade between the two countries last month was worth $20.5 billion, data from Beijing showed, with Chinese imports from Russia worth $11.3 billion.

The European Commision has authorized GSK's respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine for older adults, the British drugmaker said on Wednesday.

Air India said on Wednesday a reserve plane would take off from Mumbai on Wednesday for passengers whose flight on Tuesday was forced to land at an airport in Russia's Far East because of engine trouble.

A group of delegates attending the third health working group meeting of G20 India here were impressed by Bharat Biotech's Genome Valley plant during their visit to the facility on Tuesday, and termed it a "shining star".

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, in Jeddah on Wednesday.

As many as eight young workers were confirmed dead Tuesday in Mexico after they apparently tried to quit jobs at a call center operated by a violent drug cartel that targeted Americans in a real estate scam.

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday he received "a serious, powerful" offer from leaders of countries ready to provide Kyiv with F-16 fighter jets and is awaiting final agreements with key allies.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal will meet with Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav here on Wednesday amid efforts by the AAP to garner support against the Centre's ordinance on control of services in the national capital.

In the next leg of her two-nation tour, President Droupadi Murmu has departed for Serbia after concluding her visit to Suriname.