New Delhi: India's COVID-19 tally rose to 25,89,682 with a single-day spike of 63,490 infections, while the total number of recoveries rose to 18,62,258  pushing the recovery rate to 71.91...

New Delhi: Continuing the downward trend, India's COVID-19 case fatality rate on Sunday dropped to 1.93 per cent, which is one of the lowest globally, the Union health ministry said....

New Delhi: A PIL seeking "uniform grounds of divorce" for all citizens of the country, keeping with the spirit of the Constitution and international conventions, has been filed in the...

Kolkata: Thrusting one education system on all students across states, irrespective of their socio-economic status, is not a viable idea, one of the panelists of a six-member committee, formed by...

Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh government has extended by three months the detention of physician Kafeel Khan under the National Security Act for his alleged provocative speech during the anti-Citizenship Amendment...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court has asked for speeding up the process of filling up vacancies in the National Green Tribunal to address the "piquant situation" created due to reduced...

Washington: Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has asserted that if elected, his administration will stand with India against the threats New Delhi faces from its own region and along its...

Dubai: Telephone service between the United Arab Emirates and Israel began working on Sunday as the two countries opened diplomatic ties, part of a deal brokered by the US that...

Houston: Kamala Harris' historic selection as the Democratic vice-presidential candidate has evoked mixed reactions from the influential Indian-Americans, with a majority of them voicing unfavourable views about the senator's track...

Portland: A riot was declared in Oregon's biggest city as protesters demonstrated outside a law enforcement building early Sunday, continuing a nightly ritual in Portland. Officers used crowd control munitions...