As Twitter faces allegations of not complying with the IT rules in the country, the Twitter spokesperson on Monday informed that the microblogging company "strives to comply" with applicable laws in...
AMD has licensed its Radeon RDNA 2 graphics IP to Samsung, and the next flagship Exynos SoC for mobile devices will be the first to benefit from this. Tesla has also adopted RDNA 2 for console-quality...
RBI on Monday asked banks, NBFCs, and payment system providers not to refer to its earlier virtual currencies-related circular, that was issued in April 2018 and later aside by the Supreme Court, in...
A 20-year-old man and his friend were allegedly assaulted and their heads partially shaved over his friendship with a woman in Madhya Pradesh's Jabalpur district. The woman's father and three others...
Global Day of Parents 2021: Today is Global Day of Parents. Here are wishes and quotes to share on Global Day of Parents. Every year on June 1 the Global Day of Parents is celebrated.
A top doctors' association is observing a "Black Day" today in protest against Yoga guru Ramdev's alleged remarks on allopathy where he apparently called modern medical treatments "stupid".
Over a year after Jyoti Kumari cycled 1,200 kilometres from Gurgaon to Bihar's Darbhanga with her injured father riding pillion during the national lockdown, the 15-year-old girl lost him to cardiac...
India's overall Covid case count rose to 2.81 crore this morning with 1.27 lakh new infections - lowest daily rise since April 9- and 2,975 deaths. The country is now witnessing a drop in cases over...
AMD has unveiled a raft of new products including desktop Ryzen 5000 series APUs with integrated graphics, Radeon RX6000M GPUs for high-end mobile gaming, the new vendor-agnostic FidelityFX upscaling...
World Milk Day 2021: India is one of the largest producers of milk in the world. Know all about World Milk Day and India. The theme and focus of World Milk Day 2021 is: sustainability in the dairy...
Alapan Bandopadhyay, the officer in the core of the latest flashpoint between Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has been served notice by the Centre for skipping...
Peru on Monday more than doubled its official coronavirus death toll, becoming the country with the highest Covid-19 mortality per capita anywhere in the world.
Nearly half of around 1,130 COVID-19 designated hospitals across municipal corporations and municipalities in six Gujarat districts do not possess a valid fire safety NOC from the local authorities,...
A rising number of former Trinamool leaders who recently joined the BJP are now seeking a re-entry into West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's stable. The assembly poll results have removed all...
Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Monday urged the Rajasthan health minister to probe reports of alleged wastage of Covid vaccine in the state on priority.
Karnataka High Court on Monday asked the Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the alleged sex tape case involving former state minister Ramesh Jarkiholi to submit the report by June 17.
Slamming poll strategist Prashant Kishor over his criticism of the Central government over financial assistance to children orphaned due to COVID-19, BJP leader Lanka Dinakar on Monday said that he is...
The EU, Britain and Japan continued to voice doubts at the WTO on Monday about a proposed intellectual property waiver on Covid-19 products such as vaccines, a Geneva trade official said.
The coronavirus variant first found in India will henceforth be referred to as the "Delta variant", the World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Monday.
Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren on Monday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and sought free Covid jabs for the 18-44 age group, saying the state was unable to incur nearly Rs 1,100 crore on...
Fitbit could introduce a new feature on its smartwatch and fitness band models that have a microphone, which would allow them to detect snoring and ambient sound. The feature is said to be a major...
The Intel 5G Solution 5000 will enable laptop OEMs to bring 5G-enabled laptops to market this year, and new faster Tiger Lake 11th Gen CPUs will help users get a bit more performance.
In cities at least, India's nightmarish second wave of Covid-19 finally seems to be ebbing. Delhi has brought its test positivity rate below 2% for the first time in two months.
Maharashtra Revenue Minister and Congress leader Balasaheb Thorat on Sunday said the scenes of the bodies of COVID-19 victims floating in rivers and lying in the sand in some states have tarnished the...
The world needs the cooperation of the Chinese government to trace the origins of Covid-19 and prevent future pandemic threats, two leading U.S. disease experts said Sunday.
Canada flew its flags at half-mast Sunday in mourning for 215 children whose remains were discovered on the grounds of a former boarding school set up more than a century ago to assimilate indigenous...
Bengal Chief Secretary Alapan Bandyopadhyay - controversially recalled by the centre last week after yet another bitter row between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee - is...
Hundreds of people were evacuated overnight and many more face the risk of abandoning their homes in New Zealand's Canterbury region as heavy rains raised water levels and caused widespread flooding.
Naftali Bennett, who on Sunday moved a step closer to replacing Israel's veteran premier Benjamin Netanyahu, is a multi-millionaire former tech entrepreneur who made a name in politics with hardline...
All seven passengers aboard a plane, including Tarzan actor Joe Lara and his diet guru wife, are presumed dead after it crashed in a lake near the US city of Nashville, authorities said.
The country has experienced many moments of national pride during his government's tenure, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Sunday as he highlighted its initiatives on national security and...
West Bengal Chief Secretary Alapan Bandyopadhyay is unlikely to report to the Department of Personnel and Training on Monday, as he is yet to get the nod from the state government, a highly placed...
Israeli nationalist hardliner Naftali Bennett said Sunday he would join a potential coalition government that could end the rule of the country's longest-serving leader, Prime Minister Benjamin...
Delhi reported less than 1,000 Covid cases for the second day in a row at a positivity rate of just 1.25 per cent. The daily death count was 78 on Sunday, a significant drop from 122 deaths reported...
The US spied on top politicians in Europe, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel, from 2012 to 2014 with the help of Danish intelligence, Danish and European media reported on Sunday.
In a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi's monthly radio programme "Mann Ki Baat", Congress leader Rahul Gandhi today said the country cannot fight the COVID-19 pandemic with "meaningless talks" once...
An ambulance driver in Assam's Cachar district was forced to ferry a coronavirus-infected man on a bicycle for over a kilometre due to the bad condition of the road leading to the patient's house in...
The Delhi Commission For Protection of Child Rights (DCPCR) has identified 32 children who were orphaned during the COVID-19 pandemic in the national capital.
India has sent the deportation documents for Mehul Choksi, the diamond merchant wanted for the PNB loan scam, Antigua Prime Minister Gaston Browne has said.
Monsoon rains are likely to hit India's southern coast around May 31, in line with typical patterns, the India Meteorological Department said in its latest forecast on Sunday.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the 77th episode of his monthly radio programme "Mann Ki Baat" talked about the various cyclones that have affected the country in recent days.
To maintain iPhone battery health, some of the general practices that Apple recommends include updating to the latest software, and avoiding high ambient temperature.
A couple and their three-year-old daughter drowned while one person was missing after their boat capsized in the Panam dam reservoir in Gujarat's Panchmahal district, a police official said on Sunday.
India recorded less than 2 lakh Covid cases for the third consecutive day with 1.65 lakh fresh infections, taking overall case count to 2.78 crore. The positivity rate remained below 10 per cent for...
Vietnam has discovered a new COVID-19 variant which spreads quickly by air and is a combination of the strains first found in India and Britain, health officials confirmed Saturday.
Search and rescue teams are looking for a person still missing after hundreds were rescued from a passenger ferry that caught fire in Indonesia's Molucca Sea, local officials said on Sunday.
Just like all batteries, iPhone batteries are also consumable components that deplete in capacity over time. If the battery becomes too weak, users may notice reduced battery life and slow performance...
The ratio of registrations on CoWIN website for vaccination to doses administered has improved to 6.5: 1 from an "alarming" 11:1 a week ago, Dr RS Sharma, chairman of the Empowered Group on Technology...
Police in the Peel region near Toronto said on Saturday one person was killed and four were transported to hospitals in the Toronto area "in various conditions" after a shooting.
Some private hospitals are giving package for Covid vaccination in collaboration with luxury hotels in violation of the guidelines and legal action needs to be initiated against them, the Centre said...
Tens of thousands of people in Brazil staged another day of protest against President Jair Bolsonaro, in particular for his chaotic handling of the pandemic, which has claimed more than 461,000 lives...
Oil leak was spotted on Saturday around the barge "Gal Constructor'' which had run aground during cyclone Tauktae off the Palghar coast in Maharashtra, officials said.
A top Kumbh Mela official Saturday said it was unfair to call it a Covid "super-spreader" as just 0.2 per cent of the total RT-PCR tests conducted in Haridwar from January 1 till the conclusion of the...
Hundreds of people in Warsaw on Saturday rallied in support of the Belarusian opposition, days after the regime in Minsk diverted a European passenger plane and arrested a dissident journalist...
The United States on Friday announced punitive measures against Belarus targeting the regime of strongman President Alexander Lukashenko, who met with Russian leader Vladimir Putin amid a global...
Apple is delaying the launch of a podcast subscription service until June after some podcast creators had issues with delays in their shows appearing after uploading them, according to an email seen...
TikTok has been given a month to respond to multiple complaints from EU consumer groups that it allegedly violated the bloc's consumer laws and allegedly fail to protect children from hidden...
The India Biodiversity Portal has evolved over the years to enable citizen scientists around the country to identify and preserve details of the country's rich biodiversity. Everyone can take part,...
The stay on fugitive Indian businessman Mehul Choksi's extradition has been extended till June 2 by a Dominican court. He was arrested there for entering the country illegally.
Eight people have been arrested from Ghazipur area in Lucknow for allegedly selling what was suspected to be radioactive substance californium, police said on Friday.
The Gangotri National Highway has been blocked near the Sunagar area of Uttarakhand's Uttarkashi district after a massive landslide due to incessant rainfall.
Google, Facebook, and WhatsApp have shared details with the IT Ministry as per requirement of the new digital rules, but Twitter is still not following the norms, government sources said.
Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro visited two indigenous reservations in the Amazon on Thursday for the first time as head of state, despite protests from some tribal leaders against his drive to open...
USAID administrator Samantha Power met Foreign Minister S Jaishankar during which they discussed shared priorities for development and humanitarian assistance amid the current surge of COVID-19 across...
California will launch a new probe into the high-profile case of a death row inmate convicted of the murder of four people who have maintained for decades that he was framed by police, Governor Gavin...
India's COVID-19 graph continued to show declining trend with 1.73 lakh new Covid cases recorded in the last 24 hours, the lowest daily spike in 45 days. Earlier this month, the country's daily cases...
A doctor couple in Rajasthan's Bharatpur were shot dead by two people on a bike at a busy crossing in the city on Friday. The incident was captured in chilling CCTV footage.
A new born girl tested positive for COVID-19 at a hospital in Banaras Hindu University's (BHU) Sir Sunderlal Hospital, despite her mother testing negative before the delivery.
"We are living this hell. Everyone is living this hell. It's a situation where we want to help but we are helpless," the Delhi High Court lamented on Friday while hearing pleas on the shortage of...
The Delhi government has floated a global expression of interest (EOI) for the procurement of 10 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine on an urgent basis.
Calling COVID-19 and vaccines as one of the most important aspects of his discussions with top US officials, Foreign Minister S Jaishankar said the endeavour is to expand production of vaccines in...
What is this MIS-C? Why do parents need to be aware of it? What can we do to reduce the risk of Covid and MIS-C, be it now or during the anticipated third wave?
The informal grouping of four countries in the Indo-Pacific region comprising Australia, India, Japan and the United States fills a very important gap that has emerged in contemporary times, External...
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in his meeting with External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar reaffirmed the Biden administration's commitment to deepen the India-US comprehensive global strategic...
India's cumulative number of coronavirus vaccines administered reached the 20.86 crore mark on Friday, according to the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW).
The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has established a near isothermal forging technology used in manufacturing critical aero engine components.
Actor Boman Irani is one of the lucky few to get his hands on a PlayStation 5. The 61 year old star just posted a photo of his new console, and said he can't wait to show the youngsters at home who's...
Oppo Enco Free 2 TWS earbuds have launched alongside the Oppo Reno 6 Pro+, Oppo Reno 6 Pro, and Oppo Reno 6 smartphones. The earbuds come with up to 42dB noise reduction, three microphones for better...
Dell and HP reported quarterly revenue that beat Wall Street estimates as customers continued to shop for PCs, even as pandemic-led restrictions eased in many parts of the world.
New Loki trailer teases new superpowers for the God of Mischief (Tom Hiddleston), a power of sorts for TVA agent Mobius (Owen Wilson), and Hunter B-15 (Wunmi Mosaku) slapping Loki in the face. Loki...
The "terrible" surge of the coronavirus cases in India has severely impacted COVAX's vaccine supply in the second quarter of this year to the extent that there will be a shortfall of 190 million doses...
Union Minister Prahlad Patel on Friday morning accused Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal - who has been at odds with the centre over its management of the Covid pandemic - of disrespecting the...
A prominent Hindu American advocacy group alleged on Thursday that it has been threatened by Pakistan for recently launching a website exposing the role of the Pakistan Army in the 1971 genocide in...
Jailed Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai was among eight democracy activists handed new prison sentences on Friday for attending protests on the 70th anniversary of the founding of communist China that...
French President Emmanuel Macron is expected in South Africa on Friday for a lightning trip dominated by the coronavirus pandemic and its widening economic damage.
Bashar al-Assad has been re-elected for a fourth term as president of war-ravaged Syria, official results showed on Thursday, despite Western accusations the polls were "neither free nor fair".
SolarWinds cyberattack group, identified late last year, is now targeting government agencies, think tanks, consultants, and non-governmental organisations, Microsoft said late on Thursday.
Cruella will release August 27 on Disney+ Hotstar, Gadgets 360 has learnt. The Disney movie is out May 28 in cinemas and on Disney+ with Premier Access in select markets.
Menstrual Hygiene Day 2021: Action and Investment in Menstrual Hygiene and Health, is the theme of Menstrual Hygiene Day this year. The day is observed on May 28 as menstrual cycles average 28 days,...
India's Covid case count rose to over 2.75 crore as 1.86 lakh more tested positive in a day. This is the lowest daily rise in 44 days. The steady dip comes as scientists are studying if the B.1.617...
When Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates announced their surprise split after 27 years of marriage, they said there would be no changes to their $50 billion foundation.
The US intelligence community on Thursday acknowledged its agencies had two theories on where Covid originated, with two agencies believing it emerged naturally from human contact with infected...
Vaccines from China's Sinopharm successfully contained Covid-19, according to a study published in a prestigious U.S. medical journal, the first time detailed findings from a late-stage trial of a...
Due to unprecedented Covid crisis in India, global supply of COVAX has been badly hit, so much so that there are many parts of world where one shot has been dispensed to health workers or frontline...
A court in Dominica has put on hold the deportation of fugitive diamond jeweler Mehul Choksi, who was arrested in the Caribbean island nation while trying to escape to Cuba from Antigua, where he had...
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar met influential American lawmakers from both the Democratic and Republican parties on Thursday and discussed developments pertaining to Quad and the cooperation...
Haryana Health Minister Anil Vij directed officials to increase the number of beds in all of the state's government medical colleges for the treatment of patients with Black Fungus.
Australia's ambassador to China was on Thursday barred from the trial of an academic held on spying charges, in a case that has exacerbated a bitter row between the two nations.
A news anchor's attempt to report on Cyclone Yaas and its impact in Odisha quickly devolved into a comedy show of sorts when the man he stopped for an interview gave him a brutally honest reply to his...
India will use diplomatic channels to bring back Mehul Choksi from Dominica, sources said today after a statement by Antigua's Prime Minister that the fugitive jeweler can be sent back directly after...
Zydus Cadila has sought regulatory approval for clinical trials of its antibody cocktail to treat mild COVID-19, as India grapples with a shortage of medicines and vaccines needed to effectively...
World No Tobacco day 2021: This year the theme of World No Tobacco Day is - Commit to quit. The WHO said, quit tobacco to be a winner. Know more about the campaign and background of World No Tobacco...
A California transit employee killed eight co-workers and wounded another before taking his own life on Wednesday, the latest in a spate of deadly U.S. mass shootings, prompting the state's governor...
More than five million people in Australia's second-biggest city of Melbourne were ordered into a snap week-long lockdown Thursday, as officials blamed a sluggish vaccine rollout and hotel quarantine...
The UN civil aviation agency will hold an urgent meeting Thursday to discuss Belarus after Western powers on the UN Security Council called for the body to investigate Minsk's diversion of a European...
India's government exceeded its legal powers by enacting rules that companies such as WhatsApp say will force them to break end-to-end message encryption, the messaging app owned by Facebook argued in...
The government asked large social media platforms to immediately report their status of compliance with the new digital rules. In a note to "significant social media intermediaries," the IT...
Friends: The Reunion releases Thursday, May 27 worldwide. You can watch it online on Zee5 in India, HBO Max in USA, NOW TV / Sky One in UK, Binge in Australia, Crave in Canada, and HBO Go in Southeast...
When Singaporean car dealer Keith Oh first read the Facebook message, he wasn't sure it was real. A Chinese client ordered a S$1.1 million ($830,000) Bentley-sight unseen-over the social network.
India added 2.11 new coronavirus cases over the last 24 hours while deaths from COVID-19 rose by 3,847.The country's overall case load now stands at 2.73 crore, while total fatalities are at 3.15...
Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne has asked neighbouring Dominica, where fugitive businessman Mehul Choksi was caught, to hand the diamantaire over to India directly, local media...
The UN General Assembly adopted Wednesday by consensus a resolution proposed by Russia to draft a treaty against cybercrime by 2023, an initiative viewed with suspicion by Western nations who fear it...
A Delhi-based YouTuber has been arrested for making his pet dog float up in the air by tying hydrogen balloons on its back. The man, whose channel is called "GauravZone", had recently uploaded the...
PS5 is back in stock on Amazon, Croma, Flipkart, Games The Shop, Prepaid Gamer Card, Reliance Digital, Sony Center, and Vijay Sales. Here's how to pre-order PlayStation 5 restocks in India.
Politicising the origins of COVID-19 would hamper further investigations and undermine global efforts to curb the pandemic, China's U.S. embassy said after President Joe Biden ordered a review of...
The Gujarat High Court on Wednesday asked the state government to consider keeping aside some percentage of COVID-19 vaccines for beneficiaries availing spot registration, especially in rural areas...
Pfizer has told the government that its vaccine has shown "high effectiveness" against the India-dominant coronavirus variant that experts believe is behind the devastating second wave of infections...
France on Wednesday declared a mandatory quarantine period for people coming from Britain, due to the increasing prevalence there of a highly contagious coronavirus variant first detected in India.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath asserted that all eligible persons in the state will be vaccinated against Covid and said a vaccine for those in the 12-18 age group is coming soon.
Tesla said it had established a site in China to store car data locally, as automakers come under growing scrutiny over how they handle information collected by vehicle cameras and sensors.
With startup culture thriving in India and the need for 'going local' becoming increasingly popular, we take a look at all the hottest tech startups grabbing headlines in the country. Gadgets 360...
For the ongoing recruitment drive, the Uttar Pradesh Police Recruitment and Promotion Board (UPPRPB) has extended the registration deadline till June 15.
The Telangana Government has granted permission to private COVID-19 vaccination centres and hospitals to administer vaccinations to people above the age of 18.
Over 17,239 metric tonnes of Liquid Medical Oxygen (LMO) in over 1,042 tankers has been delivered across the country by the Indian Railways' Oxygen Express during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the...
Tasha Clark tested positive for Covid-19 on April 8, 2020. The Connecticut woman, now 41, was relieved that her symptoms at the time -- diarrhea, sore throat and body aches -- didn't seem particularly...
Odisha, West Bengal and Jharkhand today experienced high-speed winds and heavy rains due to the "very severe cyclonic storm" Yaas, which is expected to make landfall between Odisha's Dhamra and...
A Russian court said it has fined US technology giants Google and Facebook over a failure to delete content that Moscow deems illegal, the latest development in an escalating standoff between Russia...
Blood Moon 2021, which is commonly known as total lunar eclipse or purna chandra grahan, is appearing today. It will be the first and the last total lunar eclipse of the year.
WhatsApp has filed a legal complaint in Delhi against the Indian government seeking to block regulations coming into force that experts say would compel the Facebook unit to break privacy protections,...
India registered 2.08 lakh fresh COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours and 4,157 deaths. The country also highest testing in a day since the pandemic broke(22,17,320).
WhatsApp has filed a lawsuit in the Delhi High Court against the government's new digital rules that take effect today, saying these would compel it to break privacy protections to users.
Buddha Purnima 2021: Today is Buddha Purnima or Buddha Jayanti. The birth and day of enlightenment of Gautama Buddha is also celebrated as Vesak Day. Here are wishes, images, quotes, message to share
Cyclone Yaas is expected to make landfall - between Odisha's Dhamra and Balasore - by noon, with winds of up to 140 km per hour and gusts of 155 km per hour. At 7.30 am it was about 45 km east of...
Lunar Eclipse 2021: Today the Super Blood Moon and total Lunar Eclipse will be at its best in parts of the US, Australia and New Zealand.Netizens in these countries are already clicking videos and...
A trial court in Goa gave the benefit of the doubt to journalist Tarun Tejpal while acquitting him in a sexual assault case and observed that there was no evidence to support the allegations made by...
As many as 577 children across the country were orphaned after their parents died to COVID-19, Women and Child Development Minister Smriti Irani said citing reports of states and union territories...
Cyclone Yaas is nearing the country's east coast, days after deadly cyclone, Tauktae, hit its west coast. '"Yaas" is likely to intensify into a Very Severe Cyclonic Storm (VSCS) by Tuesday evening,...
In view of the impending landfall of Cyclone Yaas, light to moderate rainfall are expected at most places in Odisha, West Bengal, and Jharkhand, informed India Meteorological Department (IMD).
Federal Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers held unconventional closing arguments in the antitrust trial between Epic Games and Apple, peppering both sides' attorneys for three hours about how far she could...
WWDC 2021 will begin on June 7 and will be held entirely online. The keynote will begin at 10am PDT (10.30pm IST) on June 7 wherein Apple will reveal next-gen software for Apple products and...
HSBC has no plans to launch a cryptocurrency trading desk or offer the digital coins as an investment to customers, because they are too volatile and lack transparency, CEO Noel Quinn said.
Money Heist season 5 release date has been announced. The five-episode Volume 1 drops September 3, with another five-episode Volume 2 set for December 3. Netflix has split fifth and final Money Heist...
Bitcoin jumped more than 10 percent during a surge in cryptocurrencies Monday, regaining some ground lost during a weekend sell-off that was sparked by renewed signs of a Chinese crackdown on the...
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday appealed to party workers to provide all assistance in ensuring the safety of the people who would be impacted by Cyclone Yaas.
Lunar Eclipse 2021: A spectacular Super Blood Moon will appear on May 26. This months Full Moon is special it will be the closest one to Earth this year. It will also be the first total Lunar Eclipse...
A constitutional crisis in the Pacific nation of Samoa headed back to the courts on Tuesday as Prime Minister-elect Fiame Naomi Mata'afa dismissed the "electoral games" of her predecessor, who has...
The status of US security assistance to Pakistan that was suspended by the previous Trump administration hasn't changed, the Pentagon said on Monday as Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin spoke to Pakistan...
Delhi police said they visited a Twitter office to serve notice to its country managing director about an investigation into the social media giant's tagging of a post by a ruling party spokesman as...
WhatsApp said that it had told the Indian government that the privacy of users was its highest priority after the country's technology ministry raised questions about the instant messaging app's new...
India's new Covid cases fell below 2 lakh for the first time since April 14 as 1.96 lakh fresh cases pushed the total cases to 2.69 crore. 3,511 patients died in the last 24 hours.
US President Joe Biden marks the anniversary Tuesday of the police murder of George Floyd by hosting the African American man's family -- but without being able to celebrate hoped-for national police...
At a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi last evening to select the new chief of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), Chief Justice of India NV Ramanna reportedly insisted on a rule...
Mehul Choksi missing: Mehul Choksi - the 62-year-old fugitive diamantaire wanted by the CBI and Enforcement Directorate in connection with Rs 14,000 crore PNB loan fraud case - has gone missing in the...
Deloitte, one of the Big Four accounting organisations, has developed "a very innovative, simple, fit-for-purpose programme" in the fight against COVID-19 that can be scaled up in a quick span of...
Cyclonic storm Yaas is very likely to make landfall near Balasore in north Odisha with a speed of 155 kmph to 165 kmph, gusting to 185 kmph, around noon on May 26, the Met department said on Monday.
Western powers prepared to pile sanctions on Belarus and cut off its aviation links on Monday, furious after it scrambled a warplane to intercept a Ryanair aircraft and arrest a dissident journalist,...
Himanta Biswa Sarma on the final day of his first assembly session after becoming Chief Minister of Assam this Monday said the government would take every action within the ambit of the constitution...
US President Joe Biden slammed Belarus on Monday for the "outrageous" act of forcing a flight from Greece to Lithuania to land in Minsk where a dissident journalist onboard was arrested.
CSIR-National Geophysical Research Institute (NGRI) has invited application from graduates, postgraduate, diploma holders for recruitment to 38 vacant positions in research in Earth Sciences.
Redmi Watch is priced at Rs. 3,999 and is offered in three watch case colour options - Black, Blue, and Ivory. There are four strap colours as well - Black, Blue, Ivory, and Olive. The wearable...
China's first Mars rover has driven down from its landing platform and is now roaming the surface of the red planet, China's space administration said.
Security researcher Sai Krishna Kothapalli found a loophole in the government's SMS publishing platform that could allow anyone to send a message while posing as an official government account. This...
Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted that in a battle between fiat and cryptocurrencies, his support is with crypto. "The true battle is between fiat & crypto. On balance, I support the latter," he said.
Blood Moon 2021, which is commonly known as total lunar eclipse or purna chandra grahan, will appear on May 26. It will be the first and the last total lunar eclipse of the year.
Some junior doctors of a college were stopped from meeting Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath during a review meeting in Jhansi on Sunday, with senior officials saying this was done to...
Pradosh Vrat 2021: Today is Pradosh Vrat. Lord Shiva and Goddess Parvati are worshipped on Pradosh Vrat. The day is considered auspicious when it coincides with a Monday - the day of Lord Shiva. Here...
Nearly 100 Buddhist monks have tested positive for Coronavirus in Sikkim. The state government is closely monitoring each and every Buddhist monastery in the state, officials said.
An investigation was underway Monday into the deaths of 21 runners during a mountain ultramarathon in northwest China, as harrowing testimony emerged from survivors who battled to safety through...
The Delhi Police's Crime Branch will investigate the case related to the Chhatrasal Stadium brawl that led to the death of a 23-year-old wrestler Sagar Dhankar, said Delhi Police on Monday.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah were part of a meeting last evening of the BJP and its ideological mentor Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) to discuss the impact of the Covid...
India saw an addition of 2.22 lakh fresh Covid infections to its active caseload, taking the overall case count to 2.67 crore. In the last 24 hours, 4,454 people died, taking the total number of...
Jack Ma will step down as president of Hupan University, an elite business academy he co-founded six years ago, amid pressure from Beijing, the Financial Times reported.
Narada Bribery Case: The CBI has approached the Supreme Court to challenge a Calcutta High Court order allowing the house arrest of four political heavyweights from Bengal - three from Chief Minister...
Three researchers from China's Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) sought hospital care in November 2019, months before China disclosed the COVID pandemic, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday,...
"When it was announced they were going to land in Minsk, Roman stood up, opened the luggage compartment, took luggage and was trying to split things," said the Lithuanian passenger, who gave his name...
Using their remarkable sense of smell -- which can pick up the equivalent of half a teaspoon of sugar in an olympic-sized swimming pool -- dogs have already shown that they can sniff out maladies such...
New cases of coronavirus infection in India were recorded over 2.40 lakh, taking the total tally of COVID-19 cases to 2,65,30,132 according to the Union Health Ministry data.
Black Fungus still remains a cause of concern for the state. A suspected patient of Black Fungus disease died at a state hospital in Kolkata on Saturday.
Deepak Dehri was separated from his family at the tender age of five, and spent the next 13 years at a children's home some 1,700 km away from his village in Jharkhand's Dumka.
More than 21.80 crore vaccine doses against COVID-19 have been provided to states and Union Territories so far and over 1.90 crore jabs are still available with them, the Union Health Ministry said on...
Two more bodies were found on the shore of Gujarat's Valsad district on Sunday and they are suspected to be of the missing victims of the barge P305 and a tugboat that sank in the Arabian Sea during...
India has set a record of conducting the highest COVID-19 testing in a single day with more than 21.23 lakh fresh tests, the Union Health Ministry said on Sunday.
The Odisha government has introduced a facility to help people access COVID-19 test reports online in a hassle-free manner, instead of physically visiting laboratories, an official said.
Aimed at assisting medical staff involved in treating COVID-19 infected people, a city-based young engineering student has developed a "robot" that assists in basic checkup of patients.
Eight unidentified bodies were found at three different locations along the coast in Maharashtra's Raigad district and the police suspect they could be of some of the victims of barge P305 that sank...
The lockdown in Delhi has been extended by another week and if the daily Covid numbers continue to drop, the process of unlocking will be initiated, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said today.
Security forces gunned down six terrorists of the Dimasa National Liberation Army or DNLA insurgent group in an encounter in Assam on Sunday. The insurgent group is largely active in Dima Hasao and...
Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel, in a string of tweets on Sunday, said he has ordered the immediate removal of Surajgarh District Collector for slapping a person who was out to buy...
Climate campaigner Greta Thunberg launched an appeal on Saturday for a change in food production and consumption in the face of repeated crises threatening the world.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to chair a meeting with senior government officials at 11 am today to review the preparations for the developing Cyclone Yaas, which is set to cross the Odisha and...
One after another, grocery stores are shutting down in rural Sweden, leaving villagers to travel miles to buy food. But a new type of shop has sprung up in their wake: unmanned supermarkets in mobile...
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday accused the opposition of practising duplicity over the anti-Covid vaccination, saying those opposing the vaccines earlier are now rushing to...
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday said those indulging in black-marketing of Remdesivir injections in the state are being charged under the stringent National Security Act...
The owner of a container ship that blocked the Suez Canal in March says the canal authority was at fault over its grounding as it disputes the vessel's detention and a compensation claim, a lawyer...
The Union Health Ministry on Saturday in a letter to States and Union Territories (UTs) allowed family members and dependants of the employees to be covered in the Covid vaccination drives conducted...
A former BBC chief who was criticised for his "woefully ineffective" probe into Martin Bashir's deception in securing a bombshell interview with Princess Diana on Saturday resigned as chair of...
Weeks after the Congress faced a crushing defeat in Kerala, the party has chosen VD Satheesan as the new leader of opposition. The 56-year-old leader replaces Ramesh Chennithala.
Before all the revelations about his divorce, dubious workplace behavior and ties to Jeffrey Epstein, Bill Gates was just America's huggable billionaire techno-philanthropist.
The Uttarakhand government has issued Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) to prevent the black marketing of Black Fungus medicine keeping in view cases of the disease being reported across the...
WhatsApp said on Friday that it was still discussing the rollout of its updated privacy policy in Turkey, despite a statement from Turkey's Competition Board saying the update would not be issued.
Bitcoin price fell further on Friday after China doubled down on its efforts to crack down on cryptocurrency mining and trading. China's Financial Stability and Development Committee singled out...
Apple CEO Tim Cook on Friday said that App Store would become a "toxic" mess if the iPhone maker were forced to allow third-party apps without reviewing. He was the last scheduled witness in the case...
Assam insurgent group United Liberation Front of Asom - Independent (ULFA-I) today released Ritul Saikia, an ONGC employee it had kidnapped last month.
Observing that the ongoing "catastrophic" 2nd wave of COVID-19 in India is a sign that the worst may be yet to come, the IMF said the situation in India is a warning of the possible events in low-and...
Air India has issued a statement to inform of a massive cyberattack that has compromised the data of 4.5 million passengers registered between August 11, 2011, and February 3, 2021. The attack...
The CBI has given a clean chit in a bribery case to former railway minister and Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Lalu Prasad Yadav, who is out on bail since April after spending more than three years in...
The Railways has so far delivered 13,319 tonnes of liquid medical oxygen (LMO) in more than 814 tankers to states across the country since it started operating the Oxygen Express service last month.
India recorded 2.57 lakh fresh Covid cases and 4,194 deaths in the last 24 hours. The country saw a new record with 20,66,285 samples tested since yesterday. The overall case count surged past 2.62...
Two police constables and a home guard in Uttar Pradesh 's Unnao district have been suspended and a case registered against them after a 17-year-old boy died on Friday after being allegedly thrashed...
Pfizer and the Indian government are seeking to resolve tensions over a demand by the US drugmaker for legal protection from any claims linked to the use of its COVID-19 vaccine in one of the world's...
Snap, owner of photo messaging app Snapchat, is developing new augmented reality (AR) glasses. The first to feature AR, Spectacles is a part of a push to create ways for users to interact with their...
For the second year in a row, snow-clad Himalayas were visible from western Uttar Pradesh's Saharanpur town, as Covid induced restrictions and rainy weather combined to make the peaks visible from the...
Mohini Ekadashi 2021: This Ekadashi vrat begins today. Devotees of Lord Vishnu can observe Mohini Ekadashi on May 22 and May 23. Here are all you need to know about the vrat time, Ekadashi tithi, puja...
India reported 2.59 lakh new Covid cases, taking its tally to 2.6 crore. The death count rose to 2,91,331 after 4,209 more patients died in the last 24 hours. Vaccinations showed a downward graph amid...
Mumbai Police on Friday registered a FIR - which includes charges of "causing death by negligence" - against the captain of the barge that was carrying 261 people when it sank off Mumbai Monday, as...
Faced with a limited supply of shots and anxious populations waiting their turn, more countries are turning to an initially controversial strategy that's now been vindicated by scientific studies:...
Army of the Dead review: Zack Snyder's Netflix zombie movie is drab, dull and devoid of any fun. Army of the Dead releases Friday at 12:30pm IST. You can download the full movie on Netflix. Dave...
The government aims to ramp up India's daily testing capacity for COVID-19 to 45 lakh by end of June from the current capacity of 16-20 lakh per day, the Centre said on Thursday as a record 20.55 lakh...
In a new documentary series set for release Friday Prince Harry is once again emphasizing that his family turned a blind eye to the struggles of his wife Meghan Markle, saying he will "never be...
An Air Force pilot was killed in an MiG-21 aircraft accident in Punjab late on Thursday.The accident took place near Moga district late on Thursday night, the Indian Air Force said in a tweet.
Ritul Saikia, one of three ONGC employees abducted by banned Assam outfit ULFA-I last month, will be released as a sign of good faith, faction chief Paresh Baruah said Thursday, after the state...
The government will set up a large ''Defence Enclave'' to house top defence brass and personnel under its ambitious Central Vista redevelopment project, official sources in the Union Housing and Urban...
The IMF stands ready to strengthen its dialogue and scale-up its technical collaboration with India, spokesperson Gerry Rice has said, observing that the human tragedy is a stark reminder that the...
Senior police officials across Haryana have been directed to take "strict, coercive and immediate action" against those spreading rumours linking 5G network.
A US Congressman has urged President Joe Biden to assist the Indian Government in its effort to distribute anti-COVID vaccine at the earliest to tackle the grim situation it is witnessing due to the...
There are about 200 cases of Black Fungus in the national capital, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said today, adding that the government has decided to set up centres to treat the condition in...
An Indian-origin Human Sciences student from Magdalen College at the University of Oxford has been declared the winner at the end of a Student Union (SU) byelection.
"This is the euphoria of victory," said Khalil al-Hayya, in a speech to thousands of people celebrating in Gaza City after a ceasefire came into place.
The massive scale of illness and deaths caused by the mighty second Covid wave has prioritized both the need and the desire to understand the causes of this wave, the severe inadequacy of treatment...
Delhi and NCR Rain Updates: The national capital received record rainfall on Wednesday. The latest IMD forecast says NCR will see cloudy skies and more rain today under the impact of cyclonic storm...
One of the few statistical comforts of the otherwise nightmarish Covid-19 pandemic - that it largely spares young people - is fading: The long-haul symptoms that have stricken many U.S. adults are now...
The Indian Army is keeping a constant eye on activities by the Chinese military including a drill it is conducting in its training areas near the Ladakh region and there were no "violations" by either...
China has banned financial institutions and payment companies from providing services related to cryptocurrency transactions and warned investors against speculative crypto trading.
The Greater Chennai Corporation has set up hundreds of beds with oxygen concentrators at city hospitals to save lives of Covid patients requiring O2 support amid shortage of medical oxygen due to the...
The Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Wednesday alleged that while filing nomination for the recently held assembly election, BJP vice-president and West Bengal MLA Mukul Roy suppressed in the affidavit...
Covid has infected over 2.57 crore people in India, with over 2.76 lakh fresh cases in the last 24 hours. The death count has touched 2,87,122 with 3,874 more dying of the infection. Many states are...
38 ONGC workers are among those still missing four days after a barge that was carrying 261 people sank 35 nautical miles off the Mumbai coast as Cyclone Tauktae battered India's west coast and left...
Dozens of consumers who were scammed by Elon Musk impersonators taking advantage of the recent cryptocurrency mania are begging the Federal Trade Commission for help getting their money back.
Battling extreme weather conditions, the Navy had rescued at least 186 survivors and recovered 26 bodies from barge P305 that sank in the Arabian Sea 35 nautical miles from Mumbai under the impact of...
Profits from Covid-19 jabs have helped at least nine people become billionaires, a campaign group said Thursday, calling for an end to pharmaceutical corporations' "monopoly control" on vaccine...
The NCP on Wednesday demanded action against those who did not act swiftly to evacuate personnel from a barge that went adrift in cyclone Tauktae fury before sinking in the Arabian sea off Mumbai's...
Singapore on Thursday ordered Facebook and Twitter to carry a correction notice to users of the social media platforms in the country over what it says is a false statement about a new virus variant...
The Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine can be stored at refrigerator temperatures for up to a month in the United States, the country's health regulator announced Wednesday, in a change expected to help...
Cars, scooters and bicycles wait impatiently at traffic lights ready to zip across one of Shanghai's main roads. In the thick of them sits an old man in an electric wheelchair.
A primary school teacher in Telangana died of COVID-19 just days after she was summoned for election duty for the Nagarjunasagar assembly bypoll in Telangana on April 17, leaving behind her husband...
Zhang Yiming, the co-founder of TikTok owner ByteDance, told employees of the Chinese technology giant in an internal memo seen by Reuters on Thursday that he will step down as chief executive, to be...
Raja Krishnamoorthi has urged President Joe Biden to allocate at least 60 million vaccine doses to India out of the 80 million announced earlier by the US President.
The Trump Organization is being investigated in a "criminal capacity" by the New York state attorney general's office, a spokesman said Tuesday, as prosecutors advance their probe into former...
Colonial Pipeline, which operates the US oil conduit shut down for days by a cyberattack earlier this month, said it had resolved a temporary server disruption that did not affect the flow of...
The All-India Muslim Law Board and the UP Sunni Central Waqf Board on Tuesday alleged that the administration in Uttar Pradesh's Barabanki pulled down a mosque and demanded a judicial probe into it.
Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India Limited (DFCCIL) has extended the registration deadline for the ongoing recruitment drive which is being held to fill 1074 Junior Manager, Executive and...
Four thousand five hundred and twenty-nine Covid patients died in the last 24 hours in India, highest-ever in a day, and 2.67 lakh fresh infections were logged as a deadly second wave continues to...
At midnight on April 17, as a deadly new wave of the coronavirus overwhelmed India, Mumbai's Municipal Commissioner Iqbal Singh Chahal learned that six hospitals in his city would run out of oxygen...
Delhi and its adjoining areas received light spells of rain today under the impact of cyclone Tauktae which has now moved north-northeastwards across Rajasthan to west Uttar Pradesh after making...
China accused the United States on Wednesday of threatening the peace and stability of the Taiwan Strait after a U.S. warship again sailed through the sensitive waterway that separates Taiwan from its...
An Indian national from Texas has been sentenced to 56 months in prison and three years of supervised release on the charges of kidnapping and stalking his then wife.
An Earthquake of Magnitude 5.8 Richter scale struck Nepal on Wednesday morning (local time) as per the National Earthquake Monitoring and Research Center.
COVID-19 vaccines that are available in the United States are effective against the deadly variant that was first detected in India, top US health officials said on Tuesday.
Eminent American civil rights leader Rev. Jesse L. Jackson is urging President Joe Biden to release 60 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines to India, which is experiencing one of the worst outbreaks of...
A U.S. warship has again sailed through the sensitive waterway that separates Taiwan from its giant neighbour China, at a time of increased tensions between Taipei and Beijing.
Cambridge University chemists Shankar Balasubramanian and David Klenerman were on Tuesday declared the winners of the 2020 Millennium Technology Prize for their development of revolutionary sequencing...
A journalist in Bangladesh known for her investigative reports and recent exposes on corruption in matters relating to the Covid crisis in the country, has been sent to jail after being arrested under...
India's COVID-19 death count climbed to 2,78,719 with a record 4,329 fresh fatalities, while the single-day rise in coronavirus cases stood at 2.63 lakh, the lowest in 28 days, according to the Union...
The CBI has found nothing "so far" against Mukul Roy, who switched from the Trinamool Congress to the BJP, and Lok Sabha TMC member Aparupa Poddar in the 2014 Narada sting tape case, while its...
Parler, a social media app popular with US conservatives, returned to Apple's App Store after the iPhone maker dropped it following the deadly January 6 riot at the US Capitol.
Four leaders including two Bengal ministers were moved to jail in Kolkata late last night after a day of dramatic developments that started with their early morning arrest in the Narada bribery case,...
China is pushing ahead with behind-the-scenes talks to join a major trade deal that originally aimed to exclude Beijing and cement U.S. economic power and trade ties in the Asia-Pacific region.
Earlier, the ideology was the driving force, the RSS leadership was the engine, the moral force of the Sangh Parivar; now, it has been replaced by power politics. And politics is the guiding...
Highlighting the gap of vaccinations between high-income countries and low and lower-middle countries, World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Monday said that...
India saw another grim record with 4,329 Covid patients dying in the last 24 hours even as daily cases dropped to 2.63 lakh. This is the second consecutive day that the country reported less that 3...
Two arrested Trinamool Congress ministers, an MLA and a former party leader, who were arrested by CBI in the Narada sting tape case, were taken to Presidency Correctional Home in Kolkata late on...
The highly transmissible India variant of coronavirus has now been found in 86 districts across the U.K., Health Secretary Matt Hancock said, as he urged the public to stay cautious when meeting...
The landfall process of the eye of extremely severe cyclonic storm Tauktae, which hit the Gujarat coast in Saurashtra region between Diu and Una, ended around midnight, the India Meteorological...
Coronavirus, Tamil Nadu oxygen supply: Five Covid patients have died at a private hospital in Tamil Nadu's Salem in the past three days allegedly due to a shortage of medical oxygen
KK Aggarwal, a former president of the Indian Medical Association and a prominent face of the medical fraternity in the country, died last night of Covid.
Redmi Note 10S will go on its first sale in India today, May 18 at 12pm (noon). The phone was launched last week alongside the Redmi Watch. Redmi Note 10S starts at Rs. 14,999 for the 6GB RAM + 64GB...
International Museum Day 2021: Today is International Museum Day. The theme of International Museum Day is - The Future of Museums: Recover and Reimagine. The museum day is being celebrated since...
Fake promised giveaways by celebrities such as Elon Musk are being used by scammers to cash in on interest in cryptocurrencies, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said on Monday in noting a jump in...
Realme Narzo 30 is set to debut in Malaysia via a virtual event that will start at 12pm (noon) MYT (9:30am IST). It will be livestreamed on the company's Malaysia Facebook account.
President Joe Biden said Monday that the United States is surging exports of Covid vaccines to other countries to reclaim "American leadership" in the global fight against the pandemic, dismissing...
The United States will continue to provide a range of assistance to India, as its "important partner" continues to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, the White House said Monday.
Delhi Police has announced a reward of Rs 1 lakh for any information that leads to the arrest of wrestler Sushil Kumar, who is on the run in connection with Chhatrasal stadium murder case.
India's COVID-19 tally mounted to 2,49,65,463 on Monday with 2,81,386 fresh cases, the lowest in 27 days, while the death count climbed to 2,74,390 as 4,106 more people succumbed to the disease,...
Indian Coast Guard Ship Samarth responded to a distress call and rescued 15 crew from a fishing boat named Milad, off Goa coast on Monday as a very severe cyclonic storm Tauktae with winds gusting up...
The Indian Navy on Monday night evacuated 60 people out of 400 onboard two barges off the Mumbai coast in a challenging sea condition as Cyclone Tauktae roared up the western coast, officials said.
The Israeli army said it launched artillery towards Lebanon on Monday in response to rocket fire from the neighbouring country that failed to hit the Jewish state.
Israeli air strikes hammered the Gaza Strip pre-dawn Monday, after a week of violence between the Jewish state and Islamist militants left more than 200 people dead as international calls for...
Border Security Force (BSF) will conduct a walk-in interview from June 21 to 30 for selection of Specialist Doctors and General Duty Medical Officers (GDMOs).
Miss Mexico was crowned Miss Universe on Sunday in Florida, after fellow contestant Miss Myanmar used her stage time to draw attention to the bloody military coup in her country.
India's daily Covid cases dropped below the 3 lakh-mark for the first time since April 21 with 2.81 lakh fresh infections reported in the last 24 hours. 4,106 Covid patients have died since yesterday.
World Telecommunication and Information Society Day 2021: Every year World Telecommunication Day is marked on May 17. The theme of World Temecommunication Day this year is: Accelerating digital...
Bengal Minister Firhad Hakim, taken away by central security personnel from his home this morning, alleged that he was being arrested in the Narada bribery case without proper sanction.
Microsoft Corp. conducted an investigation into co-founder Bill Gates's involvement with an employee almost two decades ago after it was informed in 2019 of his attempt to start a romantic...
Myanmar's Miss Universe contestant, Thuzar Wint Lwin, used the pageant on Sunday to urge the world to speak out against the military junta, whose security forces have killed hundreds of opponents...
Cyclone Tauktae which intensified into a 'extremely severe cyclonic storm' early this morning - is currently 160 km south-southwest of Mumbai and is "very likely" to reach the Gujarat coast this...
The Tripura government on Sunday announced a nine-day "corona curfew" starting today within the jurisdiction of the Agartala Municipal Corporation (AMC) area in view of the COVID-19 surge.
World Hypertension Day 2021: Every year WThe Theme of this year's World HYpertension Day is - Measure Your Blood Pressure Accurately, Control It, Live Longer. World Hypertension Day is observed on May...
Cyclone Tauktae is expected to intensify the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has warned, as the "very severe" storm hurtled towards Gujarat, leaving behind a trail of destruction. It will make...
Dr Anthony Fauci, the Biden administration's top medical adviser said that the COVID-19 pandemic had exposed racial disparities in living conditions and access to healthcare across the US that...
Amarinder Singh hit out at the BJP leaders "parroting" UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's "provocative" statement on Malerkotla, warning that they are "trying to light the bomb of communal hatred in...
One of Bengal's leading news television anchors, Anjan Bandopadhyay, died in Kolkata Sunday night after a month-long battle against COVID-19. He was 56.
US telecommunications giant AT&T could announce as soon as Monday a merger between its WarnerMedia unit -- which owns CNN and HBO -- and Discovery media, media reports said.
A key aide of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Sunday clashed with senior Congress leader P Chidambaran after the latter expressed outrage, on twitter over a media report depicting shabby...
Working long hours is killing hundreds of thousands of people a year in a worsening trend that may accelerate further due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Health Organization said on Monday.
Friends will hug, pints will be pulled and swathes of the British economy will reopen on Monday giving 65 million people a measure of freedom after the gloom of a four-month COVID-19 lockdown.
An anti-coronavirus drug developed by Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) will be launched today, with Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh distributing around 10,000 doses to some...
The UN General Assembly on Tuesday is set to consider a draft non-binding resolution calling for "an immediate suspension" of the transfer of weapons to the military junta of Myanmar, a UN official...
Israeli strikes killed 42 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, the worst daily toll in almost a week of deadly clashes, as the UN Security Council met amid global alarm at the escalating...
Countries belonging to the G7 and the European Union can afford to donate more than 150 million vaccines to countries in need without compromising their own goals, UNICEF said Monday.
The oxygen supply at the Goa Medical College and Hospital was getting streamlined following the commissioning of a new tank of life-saving gas at the facility, state Health Minister Vishwajit Rane...
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has said that the state will start an 'odd-hour management' process in government medical colleges and other hospitals as India fights a deadly second wave of...
A Bengal tiger named "India" that went missing in the US state of Texas, has been found unharmed and now transferred to one of the animal shelter in Houston.
The national capital recorded a minimum temperature of 21.7 degrees Celsius, five notches below the season's average, on Sunday morning, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said.
Senior Congress leader and Rajya Sabha MP Rajiv Satav died at a private hospital in New Delhi on Sunday, days after recovering from coronavirus infection.
India logged 3.11 lakh fresh Covid cases in the last 24 hours, taking the overall caseload to 2.46 crore. The country recorded 4,077 deaths in the last 24 hours, taking the total number of deaths to...
A journalist and a political activist have been arrested in Manipur for writing controversial social media posts on the death of a senior BJP leader due to COVID-19.
Cyclonic storm Tauktae intensified overnight into a "very severe cyclonic storm", the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) said. 100 rescue teams have been deployed in Kerala, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu,...
Thirty members of the transgender community got their first Covid vaccination dose in Guwahati on Friday. It was the first such step reported in the entire country, sources in the government told...
As the second batch of the Sputnik V landed in Hyderabad, Telangana on Sunday, Russian Ambassador to India, Nikolay Kudashev termed the Russian-Indian fight against COVID-19.
The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) has released a list of do's and dont's for cyclone Tauktae which is expected to hit the Indian West Coast on Tuesday. Up to 100 rescue teams are...
Severe cyclonic storm Tauktae intensified overnight into "very severe cyclonic storm" over eastcentral Arabian Sea, the weather office said. 100 rescue teams are deployed for six states - Kerala,...
Israel bombed the home of Hamas's chief in Gaza early on Sunday and the Islamist group fired rocket barrages at Tel Aviv as hostilities stretched into a seventh day with no sign of abating.
West Bengal reported 144 new deaths linked to COVID-19 on Saturday - its highest figure since the beginning of the pandemic - as the proportion of coronavirus tests coming back positive also reached...
The US aviation regulator is ordering Boeing to inspect older generation 737 jets, after the January crash of an aircraft off Indonesia that killed 62 people.
The Ministry of Railways on Saturday informed that Andhra Pradesh has received its first Oxygen Express in Nellore with 40 metric tonnes (MT) of Liquid Medical Oxygen (LMO).
Business newspaper Financial Express' Managing Editor Sunil Jain passed away here on Saturday due to post-COVID-19 complications, his sister Sandhya Jain said.
Bitcoin fell to a more than two-month low in the wake of Tesla chief Elon Musk reversing his stance on accepting the digital currency, selling off for a second straight session on news of a US probe...
Ireland's data regulator can resume a probe that may trigger a ban on Facebook's transatlantic data transfers, the High Court ruled, raising the prospect of a stoppage that the company warns would...
Elon Musk's decision to stop accepting Bitcoin as payment over environmental concerns has been well-received by some of Tesla's investors, offering a warning to corporate peers mulling a dabble with...
Google is leading a determined effort by US tech giants to support a programme that gives work authorisation for spouses of those possessing H-1B foreign work visas, the most sought after among Indian...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will hold an important meeting today to review preparations to deal with impending Cyclone Tauktae, government sources said.
Holding the Tokyo Olympics this summer would be a "suicide mission" as the coronavirus pandemic continues to rage around the world, the head of Japan's e-commerce giant Rakuten has warned.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is holdinga high-level meetingto review India's coronavirus situation and the vaccination drive in the country. The meeting began at around 11 AM.
China's Tianwen-1 spacecraft successfully landed on the surface of Mars, making China the second space-faring nation after the United States to land on the Red Planet.
Understand the record of history stored in DNA is an essential part of a biologist's toolkit, and allows us to understand the tree of life - the origin of species, and the way it all works together....
India's Covid caseload has reached 2.43 crore with 3.26 lakh new cases reported in the last 24 hours. The death count has touched 2.62 lakh with 3,980 people dying of the infection.
A plane carrying more than 70 Australians fleeing virus-stricken India landed in the country's north Saturday, the first since a controversial ban on arrivals ended.
Cyclonic storm Tauktae, which is likely to intensify into a "severe cyclonic storm" within 24 hours, may hit Gujarat coast by Tuesday morning, the weather office has said. Gujarat and Diu coasts are...