Even the world's coldest continent is not immune to rising global temperatures, with scientists recording the first-ever heatwave event in Antarctica over the 201..

Tablighi Jamaat's international headquarters Nizamuddin Markaz in southwest Delhi, where around 1,400 persons were stuck in the wake of a nationwide lockdown due ..

North Korea has slammed US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for seeking continued international pressure against Pyongyang while calling for the resumption of dialo..

India has called for working towards creating a global framework for further enhancing affordable access to medicines for fighting pandemics and facilitating easi..

Rally continued in the Indian stock market on Tuesday afternoon as the BSE Sensex rose over 1,000 points.

The 17 per cent in power demand under the current lockdown, will further expose the weakness in the business model of distribution utilities, leading to a further..

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday signalled that the shutdown of offices and workplaces due to the coronavirus pandemic may be extended to April ..

The US has tested 1 million people in its stepped-up effort to tackle the coronavirus pandemic, while the total number of cases has increased to 164,274.

Two Islamic charities, linked to the banned Islamist outfit Jamaat-e-Islami, ran a persistent disinformation campaign against India leading to hearings and resolu..

Fugitive liquor baron Vijay Mallya on Tuesday reiterated his offer to return the money he owed to a consortium of Indian banks, and sought Centres help in view of..

Three hundred and seventeen Germans and European passengers were evacuated from Goa early on Tuesday, the official Twitter handle of the Goa International Airport..

A religious congregation of 2000 people at a mosque in Delhi's Nizamuddin area which has thrown up several corona positive cases is a ticking time bomb as six of ..

India on Monday witnessed one of the sharpest spike in the number of novel coronavirus (Covid-19) as 227 people tested positive in 24 hours, taking the country's ..

The death toll in Italy climbed by 812 to 11,591, with cases surging by over 4,000 to reach 101,739 on Monday night, according to the country's Civil Protection A..

Amid COVID-19 pandemic outbreak, hiding travel history and contact history with the COVID-19 positive cases has further endangered the lives of people.

The United States has reported more than 160,000 COVID-19 cases, according to the latest tally from Johns Hopkins University's Center for Systems Science and Engi..

Sending out a dire warning, the White House has projected America's peak death toll from the novel coronavirus was likely in two weeks coinciding with Easter week..

Centre on Monday said that it has pressed Air India and its subsidiary Alliance Air into providing cargo services to ferry medical supplies to different parts of ..

An idyllic island off Australia's west coast, known for its native marsupials, will now host nationals who were onboard a cruise ship and have been forced to quar..

Amid the rapid increase in the number of positive coronavirus cases in the country, 57.5 per cent people believe the situation will get better over the next month..

Japanese authorities have planned to ban the entry of foreigners who have recently visited the US, most parts of Europe, China and South Korea as a preventive mea..

The US-led international coalition forces, tasked with fighting the Islamic State (IS) terror group, withdrew from the K1 military base in Kirkuk and handed over ..

The Delhi government has directed the hospitals to allow doctors, nurses and para-medical staff to work for 14 days continuously, followed by a two-week break.

IT major HCL Technologies on Monday said that the coronavirus pandemic is unlikely to have a major impact on its business as its exposure to the severely-affected..

North Korea has tested "super-large" multiple rocket launchers, Pyongyang's state media reported on Monday, a day after South Korea's military said the country fi..

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has ordered opening of all national highways to ensure smooth and adequate supply of food items from farms/factories to markets..

The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the US has increased to 142,502, the highest in terms of infections globally, according to the latest tally from John..

An English-language newspaper in Vietnam on Monday announced that it will suspend its print edition after a staff member was tested positive for the novel coronav..

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday during his monthly radio programme 'Mann Ki Baat' apologised for taking harsh steps to fight COVID-19 outbreak.

Panama's health authorities announced that they had authorized the Zaandam cruise liner, which reported four coronavirus deaths and two positive cases amonf the p..

The Taliban has said that it had some reservations about the peace negotiating team formed by the Afghan government, saying it violated the deal the militant grou..

Malls and markets are empty, roads are mostly barren but bus stations, railway stations and even railway tracks are brimming with activity in Uttar Pradesh.

A batch of 275 people evacuated from the coronavirus-hit Iran on Sunday, were taken to the Army Wellness Facility set up at the Jodhpur Military Station in Rajast..

Amid the 21-day lockdown enforced to contain the spread of coronavirus, the air quality in the national capital improved to a 'good' category on Sunday.

In a reversal of the common image of UN health aid going to poor nations, the world organisation has donated 250,000 surgical masks to the United States, one of t..

Islamabad: Pakistan has decided to keep its western borders with Iran and Afghanistan as well as its eastern border with India closed for two more weeks due to ..

US President Donald Trump said that he has asked the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to issue a new travel advisory for the states of New York, N..

The Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (CAAB) has extended ban on all domestic flights and almost all international flights to April 7 amid a shutdown to stop..

Delhi Police issued WhatsApp numbers for newspaper hawkers so that they can get their movement pass (curfew pass) made from their homes itself.

The Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics and Policy (CDDEP) has endorsed an IANS report on a stody "COVID-19 for India Updates" and confirmed that it is co-auth..

US President Donald Trump has said that he is considering ordering a quarantine of the New York City area, which is the epicentre of the COVID-19 epidemic.

India will emerge as the fastest growing economy among the G20 countries even as Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) has slashed Indias GDP growth forecast to 2.1 p..

US President Donald Trump has signed the largest economic stimulus package in history worth about $2 trillion to rescue the nation from the clutches of the corona..

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has announced that it would consider Pakistans request for financial assistance to shore up the countrys foreign exchange re..

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan said that his government has decided to set up a "Corona Tigers Relief Force" which would enlist youth volunteers from across t..

US President Donald Trump has invoked special defence powers to force auto giant General Motors to make ventilators urgently needed to treat coronavirus patients ..

Domestic passenger flights will resume operations in China's Hubei province, the epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic, except in the Wuhan Tianhe International A..

The US government was arranging to airlift American citizens stuck in India because of the lockdown imposed in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, according to ..

A US Navy hospital ship has docked at the Port of Los Angeles to aid California's COVID-19 response as the number of new confirmed cases continued to surge.

Air New Zealand said on Saturday that eight crew members have tested positive for the novel coronavirus.

Lou Leon Guerrero, the Governor of Guam, has confirmed that a group of American Navy sailors aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt infected with the ..

India is ready to dispatch rapid response teams to Nepal for assisting them with the present Covid-19 situation there, Lieutenant General Anup Banerji, DG Armed F..

The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Friday said that it has given orders to Public Sector Undertakings to provide ventilators in order to handle th..

The coronavirus outbreak and the subsequent lockdown have not only left industries and businesses reeling under its impact, but it is the farming sector which has..

Soon after his UK counterpart Boris Johnson on Friday revealed that he had tested positive for Covid-19, Prime Minister Narendra Modi took extended his wishes for..

In a first summit of its kind, the Group of 20 global leaders on Thursday decided to inject $5 trillion into the global economy to counter the adverse impact of t..

With the 21-day nationwide lockdown to prevent the spread of the coronavirus outbreak underway, the Narendra Modi-led government has got cracking on what it finds..

The prestigious PGI hospital here has started tele-consultation service for its registered outdoor patients in the wake of the pandemic situation of coronavirus, ..

The World Health Organization (WHO) has urged all countries to unite against the COVID-19 pandemic, warning that "millions could die" without aggressive action. "..

NASA's Orion spacecraft has come a step closer to integrating with the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket that will take it to the Moon under the Artemis programme ..

Russia may be able to defeat the COVID-19 epidemic in less than two or three months, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday.

The Venezuelan government slammed the indictments made by the US against President Nicolas Maduro and more than a dozen top officials for alleged drug trafficking..

The apprehensions regarding Bhilwara turning into Rajastan's Wuhan seemed to be turning true as the state's first Covid-19 death was reported in the textile town ..

There are at least 640 active COVID-19 cases in India at present, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said on Friday, taking the total number of confirmed c..

With the states across India pulling out all stops in the country's battle against coronavirus, a Chennai-based drone company too is using its technological innov..

UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has set up a committee to prepare a roadmap for revival of the economy in the state.

Amid rising Coronavirus cases in India, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday reviewed preparedness of the forces to tackle the crisis.

An American warship sailed through the Taiwan Strait amid the blame-game between the US and China over the novel coronavirus that has killed over 21,000 people wo..

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday announced that doctors, paramedics, nurses, 'Asha' workers, cleaning workers involved in the fight against c..

Indian authorities on Thursday allowed a special flight of Lufthansa airlines to fly to Delhi and later evacuate German citizens stuck in the wake of countrywide ..

Chinese President Xi Jinping has said China is ready to work with all other parties to step up coordination against COVID-19 and shore up confidence in the intern..

The Australian Army is preparing to deploy reservists to assist with the Australian Defence Force's response to the coronavirus pandemic, a media report said on T..

The coronavirus pandemic has claimed 7,503 lives in Italy, while the cumulative number of confirmed cases have reached 74,386, Italian authorities said.

The number of confirmed cases in Pakistan has increased to 1,041 as of Thursday, while the death toll was recorded at eight, according to authorities.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressing the nation a second time on March 24 made the anticipated announcement of a nation-wide total lockdown for three weeks - t..

Panic gripped the entire Kashmir Valley when rumours spread throughout that Thursday could be the end of the World.

A total of 9,529 cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in the UK as of Wednesday morning, an increase of 1,452 over Tuesday's official figure, according to UK's D..

A three-year-old is among two Covid-19 positive cases reported in Telangana on Wednesday, health officials said.

As the Indian economy eagerly awaits a financial package to prevent the COVID-19 pandemic from causing major harm, a new report said on Wednesday that the 21-day ..

The total deaths linked to COVID-19 around the world topped 20,000 as of 2 p.m., US Eastern Time on Wednesday, according to the Center for Systems Science and Eng..

A Russian Su-27 fighter crashed in the Black Sea on Wednesday, the Russian Defence Ministry reported, citing preliminary data.

Indian Army headquarter at iconic South Block at Raisina Hill remained closed on Wednesday after Prime Minister Narendra Modi gave a clarion call for complete loc..

Britain's Prince Charles has tested positive for coronavirus, but is "otherwise in good health", his spokesman said on Wednesday,

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday chaired a cabinet meeting at his residence, where he, along with other council of ministers could be seen following the ..

A state of emergency has been declared on Wednesday in New Zealand after 50 new COVID-19 cases were confirmed in the country.

Very large sections of the US could be open for business again by Easter next month based on expert advice US President Donald Trump has said as the country faces..

Former Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti is likely to be released on Wednesday after nearly eight months of detention under the Public Safety Act (PSA).

Bangladesh has cancelled passenger trains as the country strives to prevent the COVID-19 from spreading locally.

The European Union (EU) has warned Beijing against "politics of generosity" aimed at influencing some individual countries in Europe by sending medical supplies t..

The Saudi Arabian G20 Presidency will host the virtual G20 Summit on response to the COVID-19 pandemic on March 26, the G20 Saudi secretariat has said.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has asked the Group of 20 (G20), the largest economies of the world, to assume leadership in the global fight against the CO..

New Jersey Attorney-General Gurbir Grewal has said that his office has received 1,400 complaints of blackmarketing by 900 businesses as the state grapples with a ..

After lockdown in 80 districts across the country, the Indian Army on Monday has closed its canteen stores and decided to provide home delivery of grocery and ess..

Chinese experts are of the view that by April, the United States would become the new epicentre of the global coronavirus pandemic. At present, the total number o..

The Supreme Court on Monday decided to shut regular courts and Tuesday onwards it will hear only "extreme urgent matter" through video conferencing.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has made an emotional plea to put all "armed conflicts on lockdown and focus together on the true fight of our lives" agains..

Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced nationwide three weeks lockdown starting from Tuesday midnight. All states and union territories will come under its purvie..

In the wake of coronavirus scare in the country, the Indian Navy has issued guidelines for personnel to work from home while meeting requirements of essential ope..

The Union Finance Ministry on Tuesday extended the deadline for filing income tax returns for the financial year 2018-19 till June 30, 2020 in a bid to provide re..

Alarmed by the number of people testing positive for the dreaded coronavirus, authorities in the Kargil district of Ladakh Union Territory have ordered a complete..

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday announced a total lockdown in Uttar Pradesh till Friday. Till now, 17 districts have been put under lockdo..

A global survey as well as an India-specific The IANS C-VOTER Gallup International Association Corona Tracker 1 threw a variety of interesting findings as far as ..

Lauding India for its role in eliminating two 'silent killers' - small pox and polio, the World Health Organization (WHO) has backed the country to take aggressiv..

A total of 63,927 coronavirus cases have been assessed in Italy since the pandemic broke out in its northern regions on February 21, the Civil Protection Departme..

Condemning the Maoist attack on security forces in the Sukma forest area of Chhattisgarh that claimed 17 lives of the security personnel, Prime Minister Narendra ..

In the backof COVID-19 outbreak, Jammu and Kashmir National Conference leader Hasnain Masoodi on Monday requested Union Home Minister Amit Shah to direct revocati..

A major module of the newly formed terror group The Resistance Front (TRF), also known as JK Fighters, under the patronage of the banned terror outfit Lashkar-e-T..

At the current speed at which COVID-19 is spreading in the country, India is at the threshold of a major medical calamity within a month, and the country must imp..

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Saudi Arabia on Monday imposed more restrictions on flights and citizens activities in a bid to curb the spread of the novel co..

With the emergence of four new coronavirus cases in the capital Islamabad on Monday, the overall number of infections in Pakistan has increased to 803, while the ..

The coronavirus epidemic continued to spread in locked-down Italy on Sunday with total cumulative number of infected cases reaching 59,138 and deaths reaching 5,4..

Suspected presence of COVID-19-affected passengers in a Pune-Delhi AirAsia flight led to a scare in the plane and the pilot-in-command disembarked them from the t..

Germany has expanded curbs on social interactions to try to contain the coronavirus outbreak, banning public gatherings of more than two persons.

There is a need for all states to take more pre-emptive action to stop the spread of Covid-19 given the "sharp increase" in the number of cases across the country..

A day after being denied permission to land in India, a KLM flight with 113 Indians who were stranded in Amsterdam landed in New Delhi on Sunday evening.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is in quarantine after meeting a doctor on Friday who has since tested positive for coronavirus, as per her spokesman.

Accordingly, the national carrier had sent a Boeing 777 aircraft to Rome-Fiumicino International Airport in Italy on Saturday to bring back stranded Indians amid ..

US President Donald Trump has sent a letter to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, offering help with Pyongyang's fight against the coronavirus pandemic, the latter'..

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro called the Governor of Sao Paulo "lunatic" for imposing a 15-day lockdown in the country's most populous state in an attempt to..

US Vice President Mike Pence and his wife have both tested negative for the novel coronavirus, his spokesperson announced.

A petition has requested the Pakistan Supreme Court to order the federal government to immediately declare a national public health emergency in the wake of the c..

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Sunday announced a second A$66 billion economic stimulus package and warned against all non-essential travel as the nu..

More than 40 members of the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) were killed in Taliban attacks in the last 48 hours despite the long-awaited peace..

Eight Indian sailors stranded on a ship off the coast of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for the past nine months have send out an SOS as some of them have fallen ..

A demonstration by more than 100 people to mark eight months since the mob beatings in Hong Kongs Yuen Long area led to protesters blocking roads and starting a s..

Morning walkers stayed indoors and the parks wore a deserted look. The tea-sellers also responded to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's call for curfew and did not op..

The nationwide shutdown - Janata Curfew is near total in Kerala as people have decided to remain indoors on Sunday.

Petrol bombs were hurled at barricades placed a few meters away from the Shaheen Bagh protesters, Delhi police said on Sunday.

More than a quarter of Americans will be under a semi-lockdown this weekend under orders from governors of five states with the number of coronavirus cases in the..

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), warned young people that they were "not invincible" against the coronavirus p..

On the strength of new data from the surging caseload, the White House Coronavirus Task Force cautioned Americans that "nobody is immune to the virus" and the con..

From warships to transport aircraft, India now can formally take military equipment on lease from a friendly country.

Time is ripe to implement India's version of 'Helicopter Drop' fiscal support scheme to avert an impending economic disaster due to the outbreak of Covid-19, econ..

The Union cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Saturday approved signing of an extradition treaty between India and Belgium.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday set the ball rolling on finalising India's strategy to combat the coronavirus pandemic and prevent its spread from c..

National carrier Air India has decided to reduce 10 per cent of allowances paid to all employees, except cabin crew, for a period of three months to tide over the..

It's been over 24 hours that singer Kanika Kapoor was found to have attended several public events and high-profile parties despite testing positive for COVID-19,..

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has praised the people of Bihar for their preparation of Sunday's 'Janata Curfew' for which he gave a call on Thursday.

In the wake of coronavirus threat, the Jammu and Kashmir Wakaf board has suspended religious gatherings and displaying of Holy Relic on the eve of Mehraj-ul-Alam ..

North Korea on Saturday fired two projectiles presumed to be short-range ballistic missiles toward the East Sea, South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said, t..

The current secretary-general of the Organisation of American States (OAS) Luis Almagro was elected to a new five-year term on Friday.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Saturday launched a Health Alert on WhatsApp where over 1.5 billion users can ask questions and they will be provided with ..

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for stopping capital punishment, his Spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said on Friday.

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Friday ordered all cafes, pubs and restaurants to close from Friday night, except for take-away food, to tackle coronavirus.

Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said that the resistance had nothing to do with the decision issued by a military court in Lebanon to acquit Amer Fakhour..

Cricket would never have become popular or flourished without the support from the writers and commentators. Not all of them played the game but their passion, lo..

After the collapse of the Kamal Nath government in Madhya Pradesh, the suspense on the new Chief Minister looms large as Union minister Narendra Singh Tomar said ..

Amid the novel coronavirus scare around the world, a French researcher has reported successful trial of a new treatment line for COVID-19, with early tests sugges..

The Lok Sabha on Friday passed a Bill that seeks to declare five Indian Institutes of Information Technology (IIITs) in public-private partnership mode as institu..

In the wake of the coronavirus threat the Jammu and Kashmir government issued an order on Friday directing the school teachers not to attend to their duties.

From warships to transport aircraft, India now can formally take military equipment on lease from a friendly country. Ministry of Defence has come up with a new D..

Air New Zealand received NZ$900 million from the government on Friday, to bail the flag carrier out from crisis.

China on Friday began diverting Beijing-bound international flights amid an increase in imported coronavirus cases in the capital city.

North Korea has released all but three foreigners from a coronavirus quarantine, the country's official news agency said on Friday.

A Dubai-based Indian businessman said that he chartered nine flights to enable 1,980 visit visa holders to change their visa, just before the suspension of new vi..

A footage has emerged showing the hectic scenes inside a hospital in one of the hardest-hit regions of Italy, where staff members could be seen rushing through wa..

Japan on Friday commemorated the 25th anniversary of the sarin gas attack carried out by the Aum Shinrikyo, or Supreme Truth, cult in the Tokyo subway, the deadli..

Saudi Arabia on Friday decided to suspend all domestic flights, buses, taxis and trains for a period 14 days to prevent the novel coronavirus from spreading furth..

Amid the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic crisis, a fake audio clip of famous cardiac surgeon and Founder of Narayana Health Dr Devi Shetty on prevention of ..

Barely 15 hours ahead of the hanging in the Nirbhaya rape and murder case, high voltage drama ensued outside the Patiala House Court here, as wife of one of the d..

The Supreme Court on Thursday said it is not inclined to create a situation by giving two weeks time to Speaker N.P. Prajapati to decide on the resignations of 16..

Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General M.M. Naravane has reviewed the army wellness centre, set up at Jaisalmer to facilitate the fight against Covid-19, during his t..

People across Brazil expressed anger at President Jair Bolsonaro's handling of the coronavirus pandemic by banging pots and pans together on balconies, it was rep..

Authorities in New York City are exploring the possibility of converting hotels into hospitals for patients, other than those infected by the novel coronavirus.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday asked the nation to acknowledge with gratitude the services of countless health and services personnel leading the battle..

The Indian Armed Forces' long-standing requirement of a modern state-of-the-art Light Machine Gun (LMG) has finally fructified.

Beijing: Mainland China has reported zero new domestic infections of coronavirus for the first time since the outbreak was first reported in the country last De..

Zalmay Khalilzad, the US Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation, said the Washington would like the Afghan government to begin the process of relea..

Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has said that the country's bilateral trade with China will not stop amid the coronavirus pandemic, it was reported..

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Thursday announced that the country's borders will be closed to any visitors except citizens and residents due to the..

The team hopes hopes to have the materials ready by next week.According to the latest by Johns Hopkins University, there are currently more than 9,077 confirmed c..

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said that there was "no talk" of extending the Brexit transition period despite the global coronavirus crisis.

The Chairman/Chief Executive Councillor Autonomous Hill Development Council Kargil in a letter to Hamid Arabnejad, Managing Director of Iran's Mahan Air, requeste..

US President Donald Trump has unveiled an unprecedented plan to send cash aid directly to most Americans to help them tide over the financial pain of the coronavi..

The Republican National Committee has said that sitting US President Donald Trump has become the party's presumptive nominee for the 2020 presidential race after ..

In a big boost to 'Make-in-India', the Ministry of Defence paved the way for procurement of 83 indigenous Light Combat Aircraft 'Tejas' for the Indian Air Force o..

China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Wednesday announced the expulsion of American journalists working for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The W..

Sri Lanka President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has called on the citizens of the country to temporarily halt travel, public gatherings or celebrations as this would enabl..

Former Vice President Joe Biden is continuing his march towards the Democratic Party nomination to challenge President Donald Trump in November by sweeping the la..

The Indian Army has placed its soldiers, who came in contact with a 34-year-old trooper from Leh infected with coronavirus, in quarantine and under observation, d..

The government on Wednesday evacuated another batch of 205 Indians from Iran, where 988 people have died due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The Turkey-backed rebel groups violated the cease-fire in Syria's northwestern province of Idlib, state news agency SANA reported.

The Republican National Committee has said that sitting US President Donald Trump has become the party's presumptive nominee for the 2020 presidential race after ..

America's leading infectious diseases scientist serving on the White House coronavirus task force is confident that the cocktail of containment and mitigation mea..

Using his long years of intellectual heft sharpened on the whetstone of law and legality, he explained why Ranjan Gogoi should not have accepted a Rajya Sabha nom..

Scheduled Test for Airmen Recruitment (01/2020) automated e-Pariksha was planned at 86 cities from 19 Mar 20 to 23 Mar 20.

With 12 new cases of novel coronavirus infections reported in India on Tuesday, the number of COVID-19 patients in India climbed to 126, up from 114 a day earlier..

Australian flag carrier Qantas announced on Tuesday that it will cut international flights by 90 per cent and domestic services by 60 percent to cope with disrupt..

The number of active coronavirus cases in Italy has reached 24,747, but the increase was at its slowest pace since March 1, signalling the start of a tipping poin..

Amazon Founder and CEO Jeff Bezos is in touch with the White House offering assistance to combat the growing new coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic that is spreading..

Australian soldiers were facing charges of war crimes after a footage emerged of a trooper executing an unarmed Afghan man.

Chairman of Sri Lanka's National Election Commission Mahinda Deshapriya has said that no decision has been taken yet to postpone the April 25 general elections du..

The novel coronavirus pandemic will kill some 250,000 people in the UK unless more draconian measures were adopted by the government, including putting the whole ..

With the number of coronavirus cases increasing and also due to its border closures with Pakistan and Iran, the prices of food and other essentials in Afghanistan..

Soon after the RSS urged the government to convince the opposition on the contentious Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), Union Minister Shripad Naik assured them on..

The first Light Combat Aircraft in FOC standard (SP-21) took to the skies for maiden flight here today. Piloted by Air Cmde. K.A Muthana(Retd), Chief Test Flying..

The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed permanent commission to serving women officers in Indian Navy in all eligible branches and directed the Centre to comply with..

The Centre has asked Tehran to grant a sanatorium for the Indian pilgrims who tested positive for the novel coronavirus in Iran, the Middle East country badly hit..

First trials have begun on a vaccine for the novel coronavirus ahead of the expected schedule, according to US President Donald Trump.

Forty three doctors of a premier medical institute here have been kept in isolation under medical observation after a doctor tested coronavirus positive.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday asked all its BJP MPs to visit their respective constituencies at weekends and spread awareness among the people about the..

Gatherings of 500 or more people held outdoors or indoors "should be cancelled" due to coronavirus concerns, and the decision was made "in the best interest of Ne..

China's industrial production plummeted 13.5 per cent year-on-year in the first two months of 2020, its worst decline in 30 years, due to the impact of the novel ..

Three high-value 16th century paintings have been stolen from a gallery within the Oxford Universitys Christ Church college, police said on Monday.

Thirty-six years after Kanshi Ram floated the Bahujan Samaj Party, his sister Sarwan Kaur is set to join Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar's newly floated Azad Samaj..

Khushboo Jain, co-founder of 'ImpactGuru', was felicitated by Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh at the fourth edition of the Women Transforming India Awards 20..

Amid the novel coronavirus scare around the globe, some good news has emerged about the COVID-19. Chinese researchers have revealed that viral infection is not tr..

A fresh batch of 53 evacuees from Iran have arrived at an Army Wellness Centre in Jaisalmer on Monday, following the COVID-19 outbreak in the Middle East country,..

With the coronavirus pandemic a reality now, the screening measures have been introduced, from Monday, at Parliament House too.

US President Donald Trump has urged Americans to stop stockpiling groceries as a reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic and asked people to "relax" and "take it easy",..

The Afghan government has indefinitely delayed the start of the planned release of 5,000 Taliban prisoners after the militant group failed to guarantee that their..

India's armed forces spent Rs 26.12 crore in legal expenses in the financial year 2019-20 up to February 2020, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said in Parliament o..

Former US Vice President Joe Biden has pledged to nominate a woman as his running mate if he gets the Democratic Party's nomination to challenge President Donald ..

Pakistan's National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has summoned former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to appear before it on March 20 in the case against the editor-in-..

With the GST Council, headed by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, on Saturday increasing the GST on mobile phones from 12 per cent to 18 per cent, the India Ce..

National carrier Air India has sent an aircraft to Milan, Italy, to bring back stranded Indians due to the coronavirus outbreak.Accordingly, the national carrier'..

In a bid to protect troops from the spread of coronavirus, the Indian armed forces are "properly examining all the meat products" supplied to the soldiers, the Mi..

Suspense continues on the revised date of launch of India's first Geo Imaging Satellite-1 (GISAT-1) with Indian space agency officials maintaining silence on the ..

Manpower in Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) is "grossly insufficient" for carrying out committed research and development projects, pointed t..

The Democrat-controlled House of Representatives passed a massive relief package on Saturday to help those affected by the coronavirus pandemic in the country, ho..

A day after a UN diplomat was reported positive for the coronavirus, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has ordered all staff at the headquarters to telecommut..

The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory (PEMRA) has issued a show-cause notice to Geo News for discussing "under investigation/trial matters" and also for airing..

Amid the novel coronavirus pandemic crisis across the globe, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday urged the SAARC nations to chalk out strategy to fight it and ..

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has decided to postpone the 13th edition of the Indian Premier League and while it was originally set to start fr..

The US military carried out overnight airstrikes on the headquarters of Iraqi Hashd Shaabi paramilitary forces south of Baghdad, it was reported on Friday.

Registering the biggest ever recovery in the Indian stock markets, the Sensex and Nifty rose over 3 per cent on Friday afternoon.

With COVID-19 crisis escalating by the day impacting market and business sentiments, the government has extended the date for submitting the bids for buying 100 p..

North Korea's recent engine testing suggests that the country may be ready to test a more advanced inter-continental ballistic missile (ICBM) that could pose a gr..

Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Friday made it clear that no sporting activity will take place in the national capital, including the upcoming editi..

With Gilgit-Baltistan reporting another novel coronavirus case, taking the total number of infections to 20 in Pakistan, Prime Minister Imran Khan has called a me..

The White House has said that President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence do not require testing for the novel coronavirus, following reports that a memb..

A Filipino diplomat at the UN has been diagnosed with the coronavirus, according to Stephane Dujarric, the spokesperson for Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called for the formation of "an emergency national government" to address the coronavirus crisis in the country amid..

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will be quarantines for a period of 14 days after his wife, Sophie Gregoire Trudeau, tested positive for the novel coronavi..

With the Arabian Sea waves gently kissing its regal foundations, a cool salty breeze or gales - depending on the season - enveloping it round the year, Mumbais fa..

The Consulate General of India in Dubai has repatriated the mortal remains of a third Indian who was killed in a fire on board an oil tanker off the coast of Shar..

The Dow has plunged more than 1,400 points to end in a bear market in a continued wild session as coronavirus fears intensified on Wall Street.

Chinese airline passenger numbers slumped by 84.5 per cent last month which has caused a 21 billion yuan ($3 billion) fall in revenue due to the impact of the cor..

A day after Union Home Minister Amit Shah said that two people have been identified for funding the riots here in the northeast districts, Delhi Police Special Ce..

Days after the appointment of a new Police Commissioner, Delhi Police on Wednesday notified the transfer of senior DCP level police officers.

A day after joining the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Jyotiraditya Scindia will return to his state on Thursday. He is scheduled to reach Bhopal at 3 p.m. and hold..

The US military on Wednesday said two US troops had been killed in a rocket attack at an Iraq base earlier in the day, the media reported.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for action on the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19, after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the ..

In an unprecedented move, US President Donald Trump has announced he is shutting down travel from Europe to the US as the coronavirus grew into a pandemic that he..

Fully supporting the efforts being led by Saudi Energy Minister, Al-Falih "is not playing any role in such discussions nor planning on travelling to Moscow", the ..

US President Donald Trump's administration was considering postponing the April 15 tax filing deadline for individual taxpayers and small businesses to help mitig..

An F-16 fighter jet belonging to the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) on Wednesday crashed near Shakarparian here during rehearsals for the March 23 parade, an air force ..

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has pardoned thousands of Taliban prisoners in a key preliminary step to intra-Afghan talks between a government delegation and the ..

Owing to fears over the spread of coronavirus, national carrier Air Indias flight from Milan, Italy on Wednesday was taken to an isolation bay at the IGI Airport ..

Accusing the Congress of living in denial mode on the day after resigning from Congress, Jyotiraditya Scindia joined the BJP here in New Delhi on Wednesday.

The Congress will raise the issue of defection in Madhya Pradesh in Rajya Sabha on Wednesday after 20 of its MLAs resigned from the party which has pushed the Kam..

Puducherry Lieutenant Governor Kiran Bedi on Wednesday urged Chief Minister V. Narayanasamy to induct women into his cabinet.

Arsenal's game against Manchester City, set to be played on Wednesday night, became the first Premier League fixture to be called off because of the coronavirus a..

Indian consumers will have to wait for at least 10 more days to get the benefit of a larger fall in retail prices of petrol and diesel that has become imminent fo..

Congress leader of opposition Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury and BJP MP Meenakshi Lekhi on Wednesday in the Lok Sabha will raise a discussion under rule 193 on the recent..

The Indian government has announced strict guidelines for international cruise ships to call on a port in the country to curb the Covid-19 outbreak.

India on Monday sent a C-17 Globemaster transport aircraft to coronavirus-hit Iran on Monday night to evacuate stranded Indians over there, an Indian Air Force of..

Sudan's Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok on Monday survived an assassination attempt in the capital Khartoum, state TV said in a report.

Four men will go on trial in the Netherlands on Monday, in the first criminal case over the murder of 298 people on board the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, which..

The Bank of Russia announced on Monday that it was suspending foreign currency purchases on the domestic market for 30 days over the weakening ruble, after a coll..

Demand for oil worldwide will see a sharp decline in 2020 as the novel coronavirus continues to dampen markets, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said in a re..

The former American diplomat Robin Raphel and Ghulam Nabi Fai, a convicted felon who worked as Pakistan's spy to influence the US policy over Kashmir, are back in..

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani was set to take oath for his second five-year term on Monday amid wrangling with his rival Abdullah Abdullah, who has threatened a p..

Dozens of foreigners residing in North Korea left the country on a charter flight to Russia on Monday after spending weeks in quarantine due to fears of the sprea..

The Supreme Court on Monday declined to entertain a plea seeking to vacate the stay imposed on the arbitration proceedings concerning former IPL chairman Lalit Mo..

A 33-year-old man who died in a state-run Medical College in West Bengal's Murshidabad district amid apprehensions that he had coronavirus infection, did not have..

A team of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Monday reached the Delhi Police Special Cell office to grill the arrested Kashmiri couple for their alleged l..

Twitter activist and Saudi whisleblower Mujtahid has claimed that King Salman of Saudi Arabia is most probably dead or is currently on his deathbed, an Iranian me..

The Imran Khan government has announced that Pakistani cinema will be given the full-fledged status of an industry, a top official said.

With the country still shaken by large-scale violence that engulfed northeast Delhi in the last week of February, the youths studying in d

The declining women's labour force participation (From 37% in 2006- 18% in 2019), gender pay gap (23%), high rates of informal work (93%) with lack of social secu..

The final results of Israel's parliamentary elections which were held earlier this week showed that the two main political blocs did not gain enough votes to form..

Planning for his son's higher education, Peddi Srinivas deposited money in Yes Bank but with the bank in crisis, he is worried over the impact it may have on his ..

NASA's Curiosity rover has captured its highest-resolution panorama yet of the Martian surface - containing 1.8 billion pixels.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that the increasing violence in some parts of Afghanistan was unacceptable and urged warring parties to "stop posturing" be..

Washington: US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper met British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace at the Pentagon over security ties and regional issues.

The Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) has filed a petition in the Supreme Court challenging the Lahore High Court (LHC) verdict which declared as unconstitutional the aw..

After seizing a Chinese ship which carried nuclear-capable equipment to Pakistan, New Delhi has raised the issue of proliferation with Beijing.

Facebook has removed several advertorials run by US President Donald Trump's re-election campaign which were promoted as 2020 US census ads.

Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Wednesday told the Senate that Pakistan neither desires "any security role of India in Afghanistan" nor wants pr..

Senator Elizabeth Warren has quit the Democratic race for the party's presidential nomination setting the field for a straight ideological contest between two sep..

The Director of the Intelligence Bureau (IB) has pointed out that there have been instances where some state agencies had hesitated to share their intelligence in..

Deeper exploration of the oceans will require increased harmonisation of aeronautics and maritime fields, Defence Secretary Ajay Kumar said on Thursday, adding th..

National Security Advisor Ajit Doval on Thursday hit out at the police force for failure to implement laws on ground saying If laws enacted in Parliament can't be..

Syrian air defences intercepted Israeli missiles in Homs and Quneitra provinces on Thursday, state media reported.

The overall coronavirus death toll in the US has increased to 11 with the first fatality outside Washington state, even as President Donald Trump's administration..

Afghan experts have cast doubts over the outcome of the historic US-Taliban peace accord, which was signed in Doha on February 29 after 18 months of negotiations,..

The Pakistan Senate has passed a bill which will pave the way for conducting trials of child abduction cases in anti-terrorism courts (ATC) and also raise alert, ..

Owing to technical reasons, the launch of India's first Geo Imaging Satellite-1 (GISAT-1) scheduled for March 5 evening has been postponed, the Indian space agenc..

Since the US and Taliban inked their peace deal, Afghanistan has been fast heading towards greater instability and political turmoil.

MKU a leading defence company in India, engaged in the manufacture of systems and solutions in the sectors of Personal Armouring, Platform Armouring and Electro-O..

Clearing any possible hurdle in privatisation of Air India, the Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved 100 per cent FDI in the sale-bound airline by NRIs.

The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved PSU bank amalgamation along with a scheme of merger submitted by the merging banks.

At least 12 Afghan soldiers and seven policemen were feared killed in Taliban insurgents' overnight attacks in two provinces, authorities said on Wednesday.

The proposed 30 per cent (approx) hike in liquor prices in Goa's bars and restaurants, will reduce the coastal state's charm as a destination known for cheap liqu..

Sri Preston Kulkarni has won the Democratic Party primary for Congress in Texas and will run in the November election for a seat held by the Republican Party.

There are at least 25 positive cases of COVID-19 in India at present, the Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan informed on Wednesday during a press conference here..

Working Delhi Police Commissioner S.N. Shrivastava, Special CP Satish Golcha on Wednesday briefed Union Home Minister Amit Shah about the current situation in the..

Dominic Raab is to press the Saudi Arabian government on its human rights record during his first visit to the country as British foreign secretary, officials sai..

An International Women's Day programme organised by India at the UN has been cancelled as world organisations curtail meetings to protect against the COVID-19 thr..