Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to chair a meeting with Council of Ministers on July 14 to discuss key issues amid ongoing Covid-19 crisis as well as other issues to take forward the country to fulfill his 'Atmanirbhar Bharat' (self reliant India) vision....
India reported 42,766 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, informed the Union Health Ministry on Saturday....
The overall global Covid-19 caseload has topped 185.9 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 4 million and vaccinations soared to over 3.38 billion, according to the Johns Hopkins University....
The confirmed death toll in the partial collapse of a 12-storey residential building in Surfside, Florida, has increased to 78 after the remains of 14 more victims were found in the rubble, authorities said....
US President Joe Biden has nominated Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, his close political ally and a former Navy intelligence officer with Indo-Pacific experience, to be the ambassador to India....
The Taliban militants the US has spent two decades battling are now pushing towards the provincial cities in Afghanistan, bringing their battle with the Afghan security forces ever closer to the regional capitals, CBS News reported....
Women have taken up guns in northern and central Afghanistan, marching in the streets in their hundreds and sharing pictures of themselves with assault rifles on social media in a show of defiance as Taliban militants make sweeping gains nationwide, The Guardian reported. ...
A massive blaze tore through a food processing factory in an industrial town near Dhaka, killing at least 52 as workers trapped by flames in the multi-storey building were forced to leap for their lives from the fourth floor....
Two-time Kerala Finance Minister and senior CPI-M leader Thomas Issac has expressed concern over Union Home Minister Amit Shah getting the new Cooperation portfolio in the Narendra Modi-led Central government....
The Delhi High Court on Friday declined to entertain a plea by Lok Janshakti Party MP Chirag Paswan, challenging the Lok Sabha Speaker's decision recognising his uncle Pashupati Paras as the party floor leader, saying that "the right to decide the internal disputes of the House rests with the Speaker"....
