Istanbul's iconic Hagia Sophia opened its doors to Muslim worshippers for Friday prayers for the first time since the 1,500-year-old Unesco World Heritage site was converted into a mosque....
The Congress- led opposition in Kerala on Friday announced the launch of a two pronged protest to ensure that Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan quits, after the NIA probing the gold smuggling case reached his office. ...
A Delhi court will take up the trial of 46 foreign nationals in the Tablighi Jamaat Markaz case from August 10 after it wrapped up plea bargaining process for all foreign nationals impleaded in the case on Friday. ...
A 28-year-old man was crushed to death by a low floor DTC bus on Friday morning in Outer Delhi's Rani Bagh. The man was rushed to the hospital but the doctors declared him brought dead. ...
In an interview with IANS, Adar Poonawalla, CEO, Serum Institute of India (SII) said as per the arrangement with AstraZeneca, SII will be making one billion doses of Covishield vaccine over the next one year for India and other low-and-middle-income countries (GAVI countries)....
In a shocking incident a Covid-19 patient's flat in the city's eastern suburb along with that of her neighbour was sealed with metal sheets, leading to an uproar and forcing Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) Commissioner N. Manjunatha Prasad to express regrets and promise action against the erring staff....
The Rajasthan High Court on Friday ordered a status quo with regard to disqualification notices issued to the 19 rebel Congress MLAs, even as it accepted a plea filed by MLA Prithviraj Meena, one of the petitioners, to make the Centre a party to the ongoing case....
The book is an anthology of voices of the women protesters at the core of the protests; ground reports and photographs by journalists including her, Seemi Pasha, Nazes Afroz, Mustafa Quraishi and Zeyad Masroor Khan; and essays by thinkers, writers, lawyers and activists including Nayantara Sahgal, Harsh Mander, Subhashini Ali, Nandita ...
Maharashtra on Thursday recorded its highest-ever figure of Covid-19 deaths, at 298, and second-highest number of new cases on Thursday, at 9,895, with Mumbai region recording its highest toll at 130, health officials said....
The Kanpur police has now said that Sanjeet Yadav, who was kidnapped on June 22, was murdered on June 26-27 by his friends and his body was thrown into the Pandu river....
