New York: Global poverty could rise to over one billion people due to the COVID-19 pandemic and more than half of the 395 million additional extreme poor would be located...

New Delhi:  The Centre's decision to decriminalise minor offences is an "apt COVID-19 response strategy" towards the revival of business sentiment in the country, industry body Assocham said on Friday....

New Delhi: The doubling time of coronavirus cases in India has improved to 17.4 days currently from 15.4 days a couple of weeks ago, the Union health ministry said on...

United Nations:  The COVID-19 crisis may push millions more children into child labour, including in countries like India, Brazil and Mexico, reversing progress made over the last 20 years during...

New Delhi:  For the first time since the COVID-19 outbreak, India recorded over 10,000 new cases in a day taking the tally to 2,97,535, while the death toll rose to...

Patna/Kathmandu: The Nepalese border guarding force on Friday opened fire on a crowd killing a 22-year-old Indian man and injuring two others following an altercation, sparking tension on the Indo-Nepal...

London:  The statue of Mahatma Gandhi in London's Parliament Square is among several monuments being covered and boarded up here ahead of another set of planned protests, which erupted after...

New Delhi:  Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday said the DNA of openness and tolerance that India and the US were known for has "disappeared", and those creating divisions and...

Washington: US President Donald Trump is considering suspending a number of employment visas including the H-1B, most sought-after among Indian IT professionals, in view of the massive unemployment in America due...

Islamabad: Pakistan’s state-run PTV News has fired two journalists for airing an “incorrect map” of the country in which Kashmir was shown as a part of India. The incident, which...