India’s COVID-19 caseload rose to 95.71 lakh, while the total number of people who have recuperated from the disease crossed 90 lakh pushing the national recovery rate to 94.20 per cent, according to the Union […]
New Delhi (TIP): India is set to get a Covid-19 vaccine within weeks, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Friday, Dec 4, while briefing political leaders on the preparations for “cheap and safe” Made in […]
The police on Friday filed a chargesheet against Republic TV Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami and two others in a 2018 abetment of suicide case. The chargesheet was filed before a court in Alibaug in neighboring Raigad […]
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Friday, Dec 4, said negotiations for a free trade agreement between India and the European Union were stuck for the last six years due to reluctance of the grouping. […]
Singapore (TIP): Adar Poonawalla, the chief executive of the world’s largest vaccine manufacturer Serum Institute of India, is among six people named ‘Asians of the Year’ by Singapore’s leading daily, The Straits Times, for their […]
New Delhi (TIP): Farmers agitating against three farm laws on Friday, Dec 4 announced a nationwide strike, or Bharat B andh, on December 8 where they said they will block all toll plazas and roads […]
Tamil superstar Rajinikanth is being persuaded to project himself as the chief ministerial candidate for 2021 assembly elections in Tamil Nadu, a close aide said Friday, Dec 4, a day after the actor announced his […]
The ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) emerged as the single largest party in the Hyderabad civic polls on Friday, Dec 4,but was jolted by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) that surged into second place, a […]
The Supreme Court on Friday, Dec 4, rejected the demand to form a trust comprising government nominees to oversee construction work at the 5 acre land allotted to the Uttar Pradesh Sunni Central Waqf Board […]
The laws enacted by the Modi government lay the framework for allowing farmers to sell produce directly to corporates, but farmers fear that this may be an excuse to pull off the Minimum Support Price […]
The overall number of global coronavirus cases has topped 65.7 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 1.51 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University. In its latest update on Saturday, Dec 5, […]
Singapore on Friday announced its decision to contribute $5 million to support low- and lower-middle-income countries procure Covid-19 vaccines. The announcement was made in a joint statement by the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Health, […]
US-based drugmaker Moderna has said that it expects to have between 100 million and 125 million doses of its experimental Covid-19 vaccine available globally in the first quarter of 2021. Out of these, about 85-100 […]
New York (TIP): In a major move, the South Korean parliament has passed a bill allowing music sensation BTS and other musicians to postpone their mandatory military service until the age of 30. As per […]
Hong Kong (TIP): Joshua Wong, 24, one of Hong Kong’s most prominent democracy activists, was jailed on Wednesday for more than 13 months over an unlawful anti-government rally in 2019, the toughest and most high-profile […]
Trier (TIP): A 51-year old German man suspected of murdering five people, including a baby, by ploughing a speeding car into a pedestrian zone in Trier on Tuesday, is to be held in prison after […]
Sydney (TIP): The Chinese social media platform WeChat blocked a message by Australia Prime Minister Scott Morrison amid a dispute between Canberra and Beijing over the doctored tweeted image of an Australian soldier. China rebuffed […]
Buenos Aires (TIP): The investigation into Diego Maradona’s death continued with police raids on the office and home of the psychiatrist who cared for the soccer star and is being investigated for possible medical negligence. […]
Ramallah (West Bank) (TIP): Israel handed over a backlog of billions of shekels in tax money to the Palestinian Authority on Wednesday, both sides said, in another sign of warming ties between the sides after […]
Beijing (TIP): On the most complex mission to the Moon, China’s Chang’e-5 probe drilled the lunar surface, collected samples on Wednesday in the first such effort in over 40 years and began preparations to bring […]
COLOMBO (TIP): Muslim and Christian families in Sri Lanka whose relatives were cremated during the coronavirus pandemic in violation of their religious beliefs say they have been denied justice after the supreme court threw out […]
Islamabad (TIP): The government in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir has signed agreements with a Chinese company and a local renewable energy firm for the construction of 700MW hydropower project at an estimated cost of USD 1.35 billion […]
Lahore (TIP): A Pakistani anti-terrorism court has sentenced three more leaders of Mumbai terror attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed’s Jamat-ud-Dawa (JuD) to 15-year imprisonment each in two more terror financing cases. Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) Lahore Judge […]
Kabul (TIP): Afghan government and Taliban representatives said on Wednesday they had reached a preliminary deal to press on with peace talks, their first written agreement in 19 years of war. The agreement lays out […]
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