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New York: Limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius will likely reduce the impact of deadly heat waves by half, but the heat waves will become commonplace across South Asia, including major crop-producing regions in India...

Chandigarh: Lieutenant General Manjinder Singh on Thursday took over as the Chief of Staff of Western Command, who later paid homage to the martyrs. General Singh is an alumnus of the Sainik School Kapurthala, the...

San Francisco: Twitter has announced that it is adding stickers to its ephemeral, Snapchat Stories-like Fleets, which are available for users on both the Android and iOS platforms. While making a Fleet, users will be...

New Delhi: The Delhi-Meerut Expressway has been finally opened for the public from Thursday. It will reduce travel time between the two cities from three hours to just 45 minutes. It has been declared operational...

New Delhi: The increased use of online gaming has brought with it a slew of challenges and risks that include exposure of children to inappropriate content, cyberbullying, sexual exploitation, addiction, gambling and toxic peers, warned...

New York: A team of scientists has developed a new portable, pocket-sized machine that can diagnose SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, in just 15 minutes. Globally, Covid-19 has infected nearly 129 million people and...

New Delhi: Owing to deals spill over and weakening demand in the pandemic, the overall server market in India witnessed a year-over-year (YoY) decline of 11.2 per cent in terms of revenue to reach $266.1...

Mumbai: R. Madhavan on Thursday took to social media to inform that he has tested positive for Covid-19. However, the actor assured fans that he has been recuperating well. The actor took to Twitter to...

New York: A new view of a supermassive black hole marks the first time astronomers have captured and mapped polarisation, a sign of magnetic fields, so close to the edge of a black hole. Images...

New Delhi: Reserve Bank of India Governor Shaktikanta Das on Thursday said that the central bank has flagged major concerns over cryptocurrency to the government. Speaking at the Times Network India Economic Conclave, the Governor...

Mumbai: Actor-comedian Kapil Sharma’s comedy chat show The Kapil Sharma Show, which went off air, is all set to come back with a new season. As the host of the show, Kapil says that he...

New Delhi: In a move that ensures transparency in the system and serves the farmers’ needs, almost all the states have implemented direct MSP payment to the farmers for the crops procured from them, but...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Thursday unveiled a plaque to lay the foundation stone for the re-development of Kalinga Studio. The state government has approved Rs 200 crore for the re-development of the...

New Delhi: As the economy and businesses limp back to normalcy amid the pandemic with the country’s employment scenario still under a cloud, data from the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation shows that there...

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who will be on a two-day visit to Bangladesh from Friday, said that he was “happy that my first foreign visit after the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic will...

New York: US President Joe Biden is planning to run for re-election with Kamala Harris as his running mate. “I would fully expect that to be the case. She’s doing a great job. She’s a...

New York: President Joe Biden has indicated that the US is unlikely to meet the May 1 deadline set by his predecessor Donald Trump to get American troops out of Afghanistan. Addressing a news conference...

Washington: The overall number of global Covid-19 cases has surpassed 125.3 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 2.75 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University. In its latest update on Friday morning,...

New Delhi: New data on Covid-19 vaccine manufacturing and supply capacity indicate up to 12 billion doses from 13 different sources could be available by the end of the year, enough to vaccinate 70 per...

New Delhi: India saw 59,118 new coronavirus infections in a day, the highest single day rise so far this year, taking the nationwide COVID-19 tally to 1,18,46,652, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated...