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The coronavirus has not been eradicated and is still circulating in the community, a senior Singaporean minister said on Wednesday as he warned against lowering of guard despite a fall in the number of COVID-19 cases. Education Minister Lawrence Wong's co...

Naqoura (AP) Lebanon and Israel are to begin indirect talks Wednesday over their disputed maritime border, with American officials mediating the talks that both sides insist are purely technical and not a sign of any normalization of ties. The US has be...

Inflation in food articles during the month was at 8.17 per cent, as against 3.84 per cent in August, showed the data from the commerce and industry ministry.

The University of Houston (UH) has joined hands with an Indian-American co-founded biotech company, AuraVax Therapeutics, to develop a 'differentiated-approach' vaccine against aggressive respiratory diseases, such as COVID-19. AuraVax, however, has the...

According to a senior scientist at IMD, the surface wind direction will be easterly and the maximum wind speed will be 10 to 12 km per hour on Wednesday, which is not favourable for transport of smoke from farm fires in Haryana and Punjab.

Earlier the vaccine trials were scheduled to begin from October 15 at SGPGI and BRD Medical College, Gorakhpur including some other places in the country.

"Hyderabad Rains, I was at a spot inspection in Mohammedia Hills, Bandlaguda where a private boundary wall fell resulting in death of 9 people & injuring 2. On my from there, I gave a lift to stranded bus passengers in Shamshabad, now I'm on my way to Tal...

The White House is moving forward with more sales of sophisticated military equipment to Taiwan, telling Congress on Tuesday that it will seek to sell Taipei MQ9 drones and a coastal defensive missile system, sources familiar with the situation said.

Three cases of suspected coronavirus reinfection -- two in Mumbai and one in Ahmedabad -- have been "described" in India, the country's apex medical research body said on Tuesday. Director General Balram Bhargava said the Indian Council of Medical Rese...

Maharashtra is likely to receive heavy-to-extremely heavy rainfall in the next two-three days, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Tuesday evening. "There is an extremely low pressure area in the Bay of Bengal andthe clouds developed becau...

An electricity department employee was sentenced to 10 years Rigorous Imprisonment by a local POCSO court on Tuesday for sexually abusing a minor girl in May last year. Dhanabal, the Special Judge under the POCSO Act here, convicted and sentenced V...

A recent assessment report of the COVID-19 cyber crime impact on Asia and the South Pacific region by INTERPOL shows that the major cyber security trends include COVID-19 related frauds, phishing campaigns and online sale of fake medical supplies and pers...

Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan had on October 4 said that the Centre estimates to receive and utilise 40-50 crore doses of COVID-19 vaccine covering 20-25 crore people by July next year.

A 11-member committee formed by the Maharashtra government to study and mitigate man-animal conflict issues in Chandrapur on Tuesday asked people for suggestions. The committee, formed in August 7 under Chandrapur Chief Conservator of Forests NR Praveen...

Security forces on Tuesday busted a Maoist camp and recovered two firearms and materials used for making IEDs, in a forest of Chhattisgarh's insurgency-hit Bijapur district, police said. Acting on intelligence inputs, the District Reserve Guard had laun...

At an official function outside state secretariat 'Nabanna', Banerjee urged the people to follow all precautions during the festive season as the COVID-19 pandemic has reached an 'alarming' level.