New Delhi: The Omicron variant carries “concerning” mutations that may make it more transmissible and allow it to evade immunity, scientists said on Monday, stressing that the one certainty in...

New Delhi: No case of the new Omicron variant of coronavirus has been detected in India yet, a senior government official said on Monday. The B.1.1.529 Covid variant or Omicron,...

Jammu: Slamming the Congress for its silence, National Conference vice-president Omar Abdullah on Monday said his party will single-handedly continue its fight for the restoration of Article 370, if the...

New Delhi:  Jammu and Kashmir witnessed 1,033 incidents of militant attacks in the last three years with a maximum of 594 being reported in 2019, the government informed the Rajya...

Johannesburg:  South Africa will remain on the lowest 'Level One' of its five-level lockdown strategy to fight the Covid-19 pandemic despite the global panic around the detection of the Omicron...

New Delhi:  Parliament passed a bill to repeal the three agri laws, which had triggered an agitation by farmer unions, on the first day of the Winter Session on Monday...

New Delhi:  Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday said that the repealing of the three farm laws without debate shows that the government is "terrified" of having a discussion and...

New Delhi:  Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said the benchmark for assessment should be how Parliament functioned and not how forcefully it was disrupted, as he asserted that the...

New Delhi:  The government has no proposal to recognise Bitcoin as a currency in the country, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said in a reply to the Lok Sabha on Monday....

United Nations/Geneva: A top UN human rights expert has welcomed the Indian government's decision to repeal the three controversial farm laws, expressing hope that any subsequent action on reforming the...