The farm unions of Punjab on Friday, in response to a call given by the Sanyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM), held protests at 90 places of the state against the Agnipath scheme of the Union Government. | Read more|
lamming the anti-encroachment drive being carried out in various parts of the city, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday said if bulldozers raze shops and houses of 63 lakh people in Delhi, which are considered illegal, it will be the "biggest destruction" in independent India. | Read more|
The matter concerning the clashes between two communities on Ram Navami and Hanuman Jayanti has reached the Supreme Court seeking its intervention and "impartial" investigation. | Read more|
Shanghai cranked up lockdown restrictions for people residing in the eastern half of the city, barring everyone from leaving their homes even to walk their dogs as local daily Covid-19 infections jumped to a record 4,477 on Tuesday. | Read more|
China Unicom has become the latest Chinese telecoms giant to be banned from the US over "significant" national security and espionage concerns. | Read more|
Nepal on Sunday asked India to stop “unilateral construction and expansion” of roads in its East of Kali River territory but stopped short of lodging a formal diplomatic protest. | Read more|
The two political outfits formed by farmer leaders to contest the forthcoming Punjab Assembly elections Sunday initiated talks for entering a pre-poll alliance. The decision of both entities – Gurnam Singh Chaduni’s Samyukt Sangharsh Party (SSP) and Balbir Singh Rajewal’s Samyukta Samaj Morcha (SSM) – explorin | Read more|
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) allegedly backed secret experiments into schizophrenia on 311 Danish children, many adopted or from orphanages, during the early 1960s, according to a newly released documentary. | Read more|
A newly identified drug may be used to effectively treat some patients hospitalised with COVID-19 pneumonia, according to a study published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine journal. | Read more|
Moments after being crowned the Miss Universe, India's Harnaaz Sandhu, hardly able to contain her joy, screamed, “Chak de phatte, India. Chak de phatte”. | Read more|
India's Harnaaz Sandhu is the new Miss Universe, 21 years after Lara Dutta won the title in 2000. Ms Sandhu represented India today at the 70th Miss Universe 2021, held in Eilat, Israel. The 21-year-old from Punjab claimed the crown edging out Paraguay's Nadia Ferreira and South Africa's Lalela Mswane. | Read more|
One person died after a level-4 fire broke out on the 19th floor of a residential building in South Mumbai’s Lower Parel area on Friday. | Read more|
The 24-year-old woman who had set herself on fire along with a friend outside the Supreme Court last week succumbed to burn injuries on Tuesday. The man, a 27-year-old Delhi University graduate, had died during treatment on Saturday. | Read more|
Keeping in line with the party's "one-person-one- post" policy, the Trinamool Congress government in West Bengal on Tuesday initiated changes in about 100 municipalities and brought in new faces replacing old leaders who have been holding several other posts, a senior minister said. | Read more|
Tunisia's president has sacked the prime minister and suspended parliament, after violent protests broke out across the country. | Read more|