India

India-born renowned Pakistani Shia scholar Allama Zameer Akhtar Naqvi has died here following a heart attack. He was 76. Naqvi, who was born in 1944 in Lucknow where he studied until graduation and moved to Karachi in 1967, breathed his last late on Sat...

The apex court on Wednesday stayed implementation of the Maratha quota law and referred petitions challenging the law to a larger constitution bench.

The state government is not giving Rs 1.5 lakh as compensation to COVID-19 patients and any message to this effect on social media is fake and must not be believed, Jalna Collector Ravindra Binwade said on Sunday. He said the state was providing free tr...

Nepal's coronavirus cases on Sunday inched closer to the 55,000-mark with 1,039 new cases while the death toll due to COVID-19 climbed to 345. Nepal's coronavirus recovery rate stands at 71.5 per cent. The country's coronavirus infection tally has reac...

According to Gordon G Chang, the Chinese army's failures on the Indian border will have consequences

Berlin (AP) Austria's leader says his country is seeing the start of a second wave of coronavirus infections. He is appealing to his compatriots to comply with newly reinforced rules to keep down infections. Chancellor Sebastian Kurz announced Friday th...

The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has rapped the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) for not filing a report on a plea alleging that burning of imported cheap waste paper and road sweep waste at brick kilns was causing air pollution. A bench hea...

PK Mishra directed all concerned to develop an evidence-based preparedness on all aspects of the disease with the active participation of districts and states for effectiveness.

In a fresh plea filed through lawyer Kamini Jaiswal, he has sought a declaration that a "person convicted for criminal contempt by this court, including the petitioner herein, would have a right to an intra-court appeal to be heard by a larger and differe...

Justice Ramana, who is in line to become the Chief Justice of India after the incumbent SA Bobde retires in April next year, was delivering an address at the virtual launch of a book authored by retired judge R Banumathi.

The study by scientists at the Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences (ARIES), which works under the government's Department of Science and Technology (DST), has been published in Radio Science journal.

The accused, Palash Bose, had claimed himself to be a member of Dawood Ibrahim's gang while making these phone calls, ATS officials said.

Budapest (AP) Hungary has registered another record number of people newly infected with the coronavirus, with 916 new cases. Saturday's total is more than 25% higher than the previous record of 716 cases, reached Friday..

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday said the Aam Aadmi Party's (AAP) `Oximitra' campaign can save lives directly amid the coronavirus pandemic. The AAP leader addressed his party's workers here through video confence, the Mumbai unit of the...

The district administration in Palghar in Maharashtra has issued a series of educative audio and video clips for villagers amid a series of low intensity tremors that have hit Dahanu and Talasari talukas in region in the past few days. Collector Manik G...

Five men allegedly linked to a bigger narcotics supplying group in Delhi-NCR were arrested in Noida on Saturday after over 4 kg of contraband worth Rs 27 lakh was seized from them, police said. The arrested men were involved in supply of drugs in Noida...