Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered an inquiry into an accident with a submarine, he told a meeting with his defence minister Sergei Shoigu on Tuesday (July 2).

Russia's Putin orders inquiry into accident with submarine

When President Donald Trump’s administration announced a $12 billion aid package for farmers struggling under the financial strain of his trade dispute with China, the payments were capped. But many large farming operations had no trouble finding legal ways around them, records provided to The Associated Press under the Freedom of Information Act show.

US Farms Evade Trade Aid Limits

A tornado swept through the northeastern Chinese province of Liaoning on Wednesday, killing six and injuring 190, the state broadcaster said, amid a series of “extreme” weather events that government forecasters have linked to climate change.

6 dead, 190 injured after tornado hits northeast China

President Donald Trump warned Iran Wednesday against stepping up uranium enrichment, the latest escalation of the conflict over the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program that has plunged the Gulf into renewed uncertainty.

Trump warns Iran after Rouhani threat to enrich more uranium

China's track record with privacy violations, control of the internet and control of its citizens is well known. But now anyone who has ever visited the country has cause for concern.

China's spy app retrieves personal info

Budget 2019 is less than 24 hours behind and the core committees made by the Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and the Modi 2.0 Government have already submitted their recommendations. Budget will be presented tomorrow at 11 am.

Budget 2019: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to present Budget tomorrow

Economic Survey 2018-19 has been tabled in the Rajya Sabha. The Survey predicts Indian GDP to grow at the rate of 7 per cent per annum. According to the Survey, India needs to sustain a real GDP growth rate of 8% to achieve the objective of becoming a USD 5 trillion economy by 2024-25, as laid down by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

CEA KV Subramanian presents Economic Survey 2018-19

The government is working on a Rs 74,000 crore bailout package for state-run telecommunication companies Bharat Sanchar Nigam (BSNL) and Mahanagar Telephone Nigam (MTNL), reports The Times of India.

India Watch: Government to bailout BSNL

The Centre has decided to appoint 40 private sector specialists at the posts of Deputy Secretary and Director, considered as crucial decision-making levels in the bureaucratic hierarchy, the Lok Sabha was informed on Wednesday.

India Watch: Major Lateral Entry Push By Modi Government

As scorching summers set electricity demand soaring to record highs, the government has its task cut out in driving energy reforms and policy initiatives. These factors should be significant as the Centre prepares to announce the 2019 Union Budget on 05 July.

India Watch: Budget 2019: What's the future of smart cities?

Startups, internet and technology companies have high hopes from the maiden budget of finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman. Three years after the launch of Start Up India scheme, it’s time for Modi government to give a big push to the Startup ecoystem in its first budget in its second term. Startups want more clarity over the issues like Angel Tax and easy access to funds to expand their operations.

India Watch: Budget 2019: What's in store for startups

Ending days of will he, won't he drama, Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday officially stepped down from the post of Congress president. Rahul Gandhi wrote a four-page letter in which he reiterated his desire to quit the party top job following a drubbing in the recently held Lok Sabha election.

India Watch: Rahul Gandhi tweets resignation

To celebrate the end of their year on the road, Meraj and Johan seek out the biggest party they can find: the Thai New year celebrations in Bangkok. On Songkran, they join crowds of revellers on SIlom street and live it up like never before. Later in the week they head to Pattaya where Meraj plays a couple of rounds of golf at the city's newest championship layout while Johan bangs a gong at a timeless monument called, fittingly, The Sanctuary of Truth.

WION Traveller S3 Episode 1 - Thai new year

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a law suspending the Cold War-era INF Treaty. Putin announced in February that he would halt participation in the treaty after Washington's abrupt decision to pull out of the agreement.

Russia Suspends INF Treaty With United States

A Pakistani man returning after performing Umrah was shot dead on Wednesday by two gunman due to personal enmity while another person was killed in the shootout at Lahore’s international airport, police said, causing panic among hundreds of passengers.

Two persons shot dead at Lahore airport in Pakistan

Dawood Ibrahim's top Pakistani aide, who is lodged in a UK jail awaiting extradition to the US, is suffering from depression and has made at least three suicide attempts in the past, making him unfit for deportation, his lawyers told a British court.

London Court Hears Dawood's Aide Case

An airstrike hit a detention center for migrants in the Libyan capital early Wednesday, killing more than 40 people, the United Nations said. The airstrike targeting the detention center in Tripoli's Tajoura neighborhood also wounded 80 migrants, said Malek Merset, a Libyan Health Ministry spokesman.

Libya airstrike hits migrant detention center in Tripoli

This International Plastic Bag Free Day, a look at how waste plastic is turned into colourful tiles. #PlasticFreeDay #PlasticTiles #BeatPlasticPollution

Novel solution to fighting plastic pollution

The largest and the most arduous election in India has accomplished with great success. On behalf of the government and people of the Republic of China (Taiwan), I wish to extend our hearty congratulations to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Hon. Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the landslide victory in the recently concluded 17th Lok Sahba elect

Taiwan Envoy exclusively speaks to WION, urges India to support democracy

Lee Iacocca, the car industry legend who created the iconic Ford Mustang and saved Chrysler from bankruptcy, has died at the age of 94.

WION Wallet: Lee Iacocca, father of the Ford Mustang, dies aged 94

The European Parliament elected on Wednesday (July 3) Italian socialist lawmaker David Sassoli as its speaker for the next two-and-half years.

Italian socialist Sassoli elected president of EU Parliament

This past June was recorded as the hottest in the history of Europe, with regional heat records in France and Spain surpassing 40 degree Celsius in the past week. The heatwave and near-record temperatures across Europe are the face of climate change

European heatwave sets new records

Britain's Prince Harry honoured his late mother Princess Diana, who died in a Paris car crash 20 years ago, whilst speaking at a mentoring event in London on Tuesday.

Britain's Prince Harry remembers Diana at mentoring summit

Iran — Iran’s president warned European partners in its faltering nuclear deal on Wednesday that Tehran will increase its enrichment of uranium to “any amount that we want” beginning on Sunday, putting pressure on them to offer a way around intense U.S. sanctions targeting the country.

Iran: We will enrich uranium to ‘any amount we want’

Amid US sanctions, Iran on July 2 said it believes India will act in its national interest on the issue of oil imports and Tehran can act as a "protector" of India's energy security. Iran's Ambassador to India Ali Chegeni also asserted that his country can provide "affordability, accessability and security" of energy to India.

US sanctions: Iran seeks India's help

Home has become a bit of a nebulous concept for Meraj and Johan. After more than 12 months of incessantly roving around the country, the feeling of being out on the road, feels more like home to them, than their intermittent breaks back in Delhi. They may not have consciously chosen this itinerant existence, but the nomadic life has certainly chosen them. They're not complaining.

WION Traveller Promo Season 3

WION Traveller returns for its third season in the summer of 2019. Meraj and Johan, after spending a year on the road, have broadened their horizons and started making sorties beyond India's borders.

WION Traveller Season 3 Teaser

Iraqi PM orders Iran-allied militias to be reined in. Decree aimed at curbing autonomy of shi'ite militants. This is the move to fully integrate militias into Iraqi forces. Local militias have time till 31 July to be integrated. Watch this video to know more.

Iraq Alarmed By Iran Uranium Enrichment

With heavy rains lashing Mumbai for the fifth consecutive day, air, train and road traffic has been disrupted. At least 21 people have been killed in separate incidents of wall collapse in the state due to heavy rains. In view of the Indian Meteorological Department’s forecasts of heavy rains today in and around Mumbai, Maharashtra has declared Tuesday as a public holiday in Mumbai.

Mumbai: 27 killed as overnight downpour brings city to a standstill, heavy rainfall expected today

Gravitas: Hong Kong Protests: Implications for China

Germany said that it will discuss this move with other nations. German foreign ministry has asked Iran to reverse this action. Watch this video to know more.

World leaders unite in condemning Iran

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