Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech released a second batch of interim results on Wednesday, saying their two-dose coronavirus vaccine candidate is 95 per cent effective and also protects the most vulnerable people in older age groups from the risk of falling prey to the virus....
Pakistan has once again expressed its disregard over India's qualification for a seat on the 15-member UN Security Council (UNSC), stating that New Delhi does not even qualify for the seat due to "ongoing unrest" and "violations of UNSC's resolutions" in Jammu and Kashmir. ...
The Congress-led United Democratic Front, the principal opposition in Kerala, on Wednesday cried foul in the manner in which the state Vigilance Department arrested the former PWD Minister and senior legislator of the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) V.K. Ebrahim Kunju in the Palarivattom flyover collapse case....
Sahitya Academy award winner Bengali poet Alokeranjan Dasgupta has passed away at his residence in Germany. He was 87. The news of his demise was confirmed by his wife Elizabeth....
Normal life was crippled in northern Tripura's Kanchanpur sub-division for the 3rd day on Wednesday wih tensions running high. This follows the Joint Movement Committee called shutdown for an indefinite period to protest the government's decision to rehabilitate thousands of tribal refugees, who had fled to adjoining Mizoram 23 y...
The Telangana State Election Commission on Wednesday asked the state government to put on hold distribution of flood relief funds among people in Greater Hyderabad as this is likely to affect the model code of conduct....
A total of 13 ministers of the 15-member newly sworn-in Bihar cabinet are crorepatis and the average assents of these leaders 3.93 crore, said Bihar Election Watch and Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR)....
After the Diwali weekend and Bhai Dooj celebrations came to an end, India recorded more than 30 per cent jump in new cases of Covid-19 with 38,617 new cases reported in past 24 hours pushing the cumulative the tally to 89,12,907, data from the Union Health Ministry showed on Wednesday. ...
Nine members of a family, including five women and a child, were killed and at least 16 others injured in a road accident in the early hours of Wednesday at Waghodia crossroads near Vadodara in Gujarat, police said. The accident occurred when an Eicher truck carrying around 25 to 30 members of...
As the world's leading economies are directing trillions of dollars towards COVID-19 recovery packages, a significant proportion is going to fossil fuel industries without climate-related conditions, risking clean energy opportunities in the coming decade, a G20 climate performance report said on Wednesday. ...
