The overall number of global coronavirus cases has topped 54.8 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 1,325,750, according to the Johns Hopkins University....
"Hunger is an outrage in a world of plenty," UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told the Executive Board of the World Food Programme (WFP), highlighting the important role of food security in cementing peace....
The 12th BRICS Summit slated to take place virtually on Tuesday will discuss trade and people-to-people cooperation among other issues, said the office of the South African Presidency....
Bengaluru Central Crime Branch police on Tuesday arrested former mayor and Congress leader R. Sampath Raj, who was wanted in Bengaluru riots case....
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday greeted the media fraternity on the National Press Day, asserting that the Narendra Modi government believed in the freedom of Press and opposed attempts to "throttle" it. ...
For the second time in the span of 10 days after the US elections, there's a Covid-19 gamechanger on the horizon with US pharma giant Moderna announcing on Monday that its vaccine has shown 94.5 per cent efficacy in preliminary data from the company's ongoing study....
With soaring COVID figures in Delhi that forced CM Arvind Kejriwal to rush to seek the Centre's help for additional ICU beds and more doctors, the government is "actively considering" not convening Parliament's winter session this year....
Drugmaker Johnson & Johnson has launched the Phase 3 trials of the two-dose regimen of its investigational vaccine candidate for the prevention of Covid-19....
If true, it would mean that the virus was present in Italy three months before it was first reported in China's Wuhan in December 2019, and five months before the first official case was recorded in Italy on February 21, 2020, reports Xinhua news agency....
Nitish Kumar was on Monday sworn in as Chief Minister of Bihar for his fourth successive term....
