Tag: India

New Delhi: India reported 1,84,372 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, setting another grim one-day record, taking the overall tally to 13,87,825 on Wednesday, according to the data…

New Delhi:  India on Thursday said it was committed to protecting the life of Indian death row convict Kulbhushan Jadhav amid reports that the Islamabad High Court has constituted a two-member bench to hear a review petition in his case. “We stand committed to protect the life of Indian national Kulbhushan Jadhav,” external affairs ministry […]

Washington: China-India border tensions “remain high” despite some force pullbacks this year, the US intelligence community has told Congress, asserting that Beijing seeks to use coordinated, whole-of-government tools to demonstrate…

New Delhi: India on Tuesday slammed Pakistan, saying it is obsessed with territorial aggrandisement after the Imran Khan government issued a new political map which includes parts of Gujarat and the Union Territories of Ladakh and Jammu and Kashmir. Pakistan released its official “political map” which includes the erstwhile princely states of Junagadh and Jammu […]

Hyderabad: Underlining the importance of adequate testing for Covid-19, World Health Organisation’s (WHO) Chief Scientist Dr Soumya Swaminathan on Tuesday said that India’s testing rate is low, compared to other countries which have done well in combating the pandemic. “India, as a whole, has a low testing rate compared to some of the countries which […]

Mumbai: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Thursday said inflation is expected to be at elevated levels during the second quarter, but may ease in the second half of the current fiscal year. Supply chain disruptions persist, resulting in inflation pressures across segments, RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das said while announcing the decisions taken by the […]

New Delhi: The International Cricket Council has decided that India will host the 2021 edition of the T20 World Cup while the postponed 2020 edition will now be held in Australia in 2022. India is also set to host the 50-over World Cup in India in 2023. The International Cricket Council (ICC) on July 20 […]

New Delhi: India categorically said on Sunday that Gautam Buddha was born in Lumbini in Nepal thereby defusing a controversy about Buddha’s birthplace after Nepal had responded to remarks attributed to External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar. Jaishankar had on Saturday talked about India’s moral leadership and how Buddha and Mahatma Gandhi’s teachings are still relevant. […]

New Delhi: Japanese photography and imaging major Fujifilm on Wednesday launched its first square format smartphone printer for Rs 12,999 in India. The ‘Instax SHARE SP3’ is the successor to the SP2, which doesn’t come in the typical 4×6 photo size but prints in a 2.4×2.4 aspect ratio which is a square format. With the […]

Washington: Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden asserted that if elected, his administration will stand with New Delhi in confronting the threats it faces and called for strengthening the “bond” between India and the US. Presidential elections in the US will held on November 3 and the 77-year-old is challenging incumbent Republican President Donald Trump in […]

New Delhi: The beleaguered Hindu and Sikh minorities of Afghanistan have found support in not just India, but also in the US. A resolution, introduced in the House of Representatives by Congresswoman Jackie Speier and co-sponsored by seven others, seeks to resettle persecuted religious communities in Afghanistan to the US. Introduced last week, the resolution […]

New Delhi: Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare Harsh Vardhan said on Saturday that the country will have a vaccine against the deadly coronavirus by the end of the year. Speaking to reporters here, he said that a Covid-19 vaccine is likely in the next 4-5 months. “I hope that if everything goes well, […]

New Delhi: Ten states — Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Rajasthan and Kerala have shown a rise in the COVID-19 daily cases accounting for…

New Delhi: Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat said on Monday that if diplomatic talks with China over the border issue fail, then military options are on the table. “The military option to deal with the transgressions by the Chinese is still on but will be considered only if the talks at the diplomatic […]

Washington: The overall number of global coronavirus cases has topped 23.5 million, while the deaths have increased to over 811,000, according to Johns Hopkins University. As of Tuesday morning, the total number of cases stood at 23,571,084 and the fatalities rose to 811,748, the University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed in its […]