India

COVID-19 has delayed the repair work of Kullu's damaged Bhoothnath bridge and a new target of opening it for vehicular traffic has been fixed for next year, Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur informed the state assembly on Friday. Replying...

The green panel said no coercive measures have been adopted as expected from the state pollution control board (SPCB) as a regulator.

Replying to a debate on the two bills, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said the government is committed to providing affordable and easy healthcare facilities to every citizen.

Amid farmers' protests over three agriculture-related bills proposed by the government, Punjab MLA and former minister Navjot Singh Sidhu on Friday said "Punjab, Punjabiyat and every Punjabi" are with the peasants. Breaking his silence after his resigna...

The country's recovery rate stands at 78.86 per cent while case fatality rate due to the coronavirus infection has further dropped to 1.62 per cent.

Indian Grandmaster P Harikrishna maintained his joint fifth place in the Saint Louis Rapid and Blitz online chess tournament even as American Wesley So climbed to the top spot ahead of world champion Magnus Carlsen. Competing in the last three rounds o...

England head coach Chris Silverwood has no doubt that competing in a world class event like IPL will help his players prepare well for the T20 World Cup but is worried about players burning themselves out. As many as 10 England players, including seven...

Barcelona (AP) Barcelona president Josep Bartomeu faces a vote of no confidence after club members gathered enough signatures to force a referendum on his future. The vote will be held after the club verifies all the signatures. Bartomeu would have to...

Pune district reported 4,571 new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours which took its case count to 2,40,423, a health official said on Thursday evening. The death toll in the district reached 5,451 with 85 patients succumbing to the infection during t...

Between May 6 and August 31, Air India and its subsidiary Air India Express have operated a total of 2,292 special international flights under the Vande Bharat Mission to help stranded people reach their destinations.

The Delhi University Principal's Association (DUPA) on Thursday accused the AAP government of forcing colleges fully funded by it to pay salaries from the students' fund, saying this would amount to misappropriation. Reacting to DUPA's assertions, Deput...

The Army Chief also commended the use of technology to ensure effective day and night surveillance across the LoC which has resulted in many successful operations to foil infiltration bids in the recent past.

Television sets playing cartoons, a painting station and carrom boards will be the features of a child-friendly COVID-19 ward at the state-run LNJP Hospital. The new ward based on the theme -- From Suffering to Happiness -- was inaugurated on Wednesd...

Berlin (AP) The Austrian government has spoken up to correct US President Donald Trump's claim that people in its country live in "forest cities." Trump recently cited Austria and other European countries as models of good forest management that US st...

The minister said Shipping Ministry issued necessary directions from time to time to all ports to put in place a screening, detection and quarantine system for disembarking seafarers or cruise passengers.

Scientists have, for the first time, discovered a Jupiter-sized planet orbiting a white dwarf or a dead star located about 80 light years away. The finding, published in the journal Nature, shows the likely presence of the planet, named WD 1856 b, orbi...