India's COVID-19 caseload went past 91 lakh with?44,059 coronavirus infections being reported in a day, while the recoveries surged to 85,62,641, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Monday. | Read more|
"Worse things will happen in December if states aren't well prepared," the Supreme Court warned today as it sought status reports from Delhi, Gujarat, Maharashtra and Assam in two days over the spike in coronavirus cases in these states. | Read more|
China must drop its illusion that its relations with the United States will automatically improve under President-elect Joe Biden's administration, a Chinese government advisor has said, adding that Beijing should be prepared for a tough stance from Washington. | Read more|
Regulatory authorities are gearing up for a deluge in people reporting side effects when the new covid-19 vaccines go into use. Even as vaccines like the one from Pfizer and BioNTech reach safety milestones and look set for regulatory approval, managing the reporting and follow-up of what are known as adverse drug reac | Read more|
Congress's Ghulam Nabi Azad, one of the key dissenters in the party, on Sunday offered another explanation of the party's recent slump when it comes to elections. Speaking in the middle of the latest controversy to hit the party - sharp criticism by party colleague Kapil Sibal after the Bihar election - Azad said leade | Read more|
Coronavirus cases in India rose by 45,209 in the last 24 hours taking the total number of infections in the country to 90.95 lakh, government data showed today. There has been a slight dip in infections since Saturday when it recorded 46,232 cases. 501 deaths were reported in the last day taking the total fatalities du | Read more|
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday left for Delhi after launching various infrastructure projects worth over Rs 67,000 crore during his one day visit to the metropolis. Deputy Chief Minister O Panneerselvam, his Cabinet colleagues including K A Sengottaiyan and P Thangamani gave him a warm send off at the airport | Read more|
High-level central teams have been sent to four more states -- Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh and Chhattisgarh -- to help the state governments tackle the Covid surge. Last week, the Union Government has sent teams to Haryana, Rajasthan, Gujarat and Manipur. All these states have been either reporting a rise i | Read more|
The Trump Campaign has filed a petition for recount of votes in Georgia, days after US President-elect Joe Biden wrested the Republican stronghold by a little over 12,000 votes. Democrat Biden became the first Democrat to have won the key battleground state since 1992 after a hand recount of nearly five million votes, | Read more|
Comedian Bharti Singh's husband Haarsh Limbachiyaa was arrested on Sunday morning over allegations of possession and use of marijuana. The 33-year-old screenwriter, producer and TV personality was taken into custody after being questioned by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) for 15 hours. His wife, Bharti Singh, was a | Read more|
India's COVID-19 caseload rose to 90.50 lakh, while the number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to over 84.78 lakh pushing the national recovery rate to 93.67 per cent, according to the Union Health Ministry data on Saturday. | Read more|
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin denied on Friday that he is attempting to limit President-elect Joe Biden's options for reviving the pandemic-damaged economy by ending several emergency loan programs being run by the Federal Reserve. | Read more|
A 38-year-old dentist was murdered Friday afternoon at her home in Uttar Pradesh's Agra by a man who gained entry to the house on the pretext of recharging the set top box. | Read more|
Eight people were injured in a shooting at a US mall in Wisconsin on Friday according to police, who said they were still hunting for the shooter. | Read more|
US President-elect Joe Biden on Friday appointed an Indian-American, Mala Adiga, the policy director of his wife Jill Biden, who will be the First Lady. | Read more|
The Delhi High Court today severely criticised the Delhi government for its flip-flop on the cap on number of wedding attendees allowed in the wake of a fresh wave of the COVID-19 pandemic sweeping the city. | Read more|
A day after high-level teams were sent to Haryana, Rajasthan, Gujarat and Manipur to monitor the fight against coronavirus, the centre is now considering sending high-level teams to other states that are seeing a rise in virus cases. | Read more|
Colleagues defended British interior minister Priti Patel on Friday after the BBC and other media reported that an inquiry looking into claims of bullying against her concluded she had broken ministerial rules. | Read more|
The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has petitioned the Supreme Court to direct tycoon Subrata Roy to pay Rs. 62,600 crore ($8.43 billion) immediately, or cancel his parole if he doesn't yield. | Read more|
New York's attorney general has sent a subpoena to the Trump Organization for records related to consulting fees paid to Ivanka Trump as part of a broad civil investigation into the president's business dealings, a law enforcement official said Thursday. | Read more|
India's COVID-19 caseload rose to 89.58 lakh with 45,576 fresh infections, while the number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to over 83.83 lakh pushing the national recovery rate to 93.58 per cent, according to data updated by the Union Health Ministry on Thursday. | Read more|
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has announced a steep Rs. 2,000 fine -- up from the current Rs. 500 -- for those caught without masks, to help control the coronavirus surge that's in its third week. The Chief Minister also appealed to all political parties and social organisations to distribute masks at public pla | Read more|
In a first, a Delhi police officer -Seema Dhaka - has been promoted before time for finding 76 missing children in nearly three months under a new incentive scheme. | Read more|
he BBC announced Wednesday the immediate start of an investigation into how it obtained an explosive 1995 interview with Princess Diana that lifted the lid on her troubled marriage to Prince Charles. | Read more|
Veteran actor and filmmaker Aparna Sen recalls her memories of Soumitra Chatterjee. | Read more|
The Delhi High Court today severely criticised the Delhi government for its flip-flop on the cap on number of wedding attendees allowed in the wake of a fresh wave of the COVID-19 pandemic sweeping the city. | Read more|
India's COVID-19 caseload went past 89 lakh, while the number of people who have recuperated from the disease crossed 83 lakh pushing the national recovery rate to 93.52 per cent, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Wednesday. | Read more|
China has no theological basis to pick the next Dalai Lama, according to a top US diplomat, asserting that the Tibetan Buddhists have successfully picked their spiritual leader for hundreds of years. | Read more|
The Indian Army has established upgraded living facilities for troops deployed in Eastern Ladakh, a sector that receives up to 40 feet of snow after November every year and where temperatures fall up to negative 30-40 degrees. | Read more|
Vedanta Ltd, the billionaire Anil Agarwal-controlled metals-to-oil conglomerate, said on Wednesday it was interested in buying the government's stake in the state-run Bharat Petroleum Corp Ltd, India's largest fuel retailer. “Vedanta's expression of interest (EoI) for BPCL is to evaluate potential synergies with our | Read more|
An auto-rickshaw driver allegedly set ablaze a security guard of a private firm in Pune after he was stopped from urinating on an SUV of the firm's owner, police said on Wednesday. | Read more|
As the Central Government issued an order on 11 November,2020, bringing digital or online Media, films and audio-visual programmes, news and current affairs content under the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. Digipub, an organisation of digital-only news publications, has issued the statement on these moves. | Read more|
The number of new coronavirus infections reported in a day dropped below 30,000 after four months,taking India's COVID-19 caseload to 88.74 lakh, while the number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 82,90,370 according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Tuesday. | Read more|
The Delhi Police's Special Cell has arrested two suspected Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) terrorists from Sarai Kale Khan area in southeast Delhi, officials said on Tuesday. Abdul Latif Mir (22), a resident of Doru village in Baramulla district and Mohd. Ashraf Khatana (20), a resident of Hat Mulla village in Jammu and Kashmir | Read more|
Union Minister Amit Shah today hit out at the political leaders of Jammu and Kashmir with a string of accusations that included getting "foreign forces to intervene" in the issue of scrapping of Article 370 and bringing back "terror and turmoil" in the Union Territory. | Read more|