Noting there has been a decline in Covid-19 testing in many states and Union Territories, the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare urged them to increase the pace of testing “in a strategic manner” keeping in view the case positivity trend. | Read more|
The Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) Tuesday sent a notice to the Delhi Police seeking an FIR against the participants of a group for allegedly holding a discussion on the Clubhouse app and passing lewd remarks against Muslim women. | Read more|
Abdullah Azam, son of Uttar Pradesh politician Azam Khan, on Tuesday, told NDTV that his father has been kept in prison in extremely poor conditions and even his medical needs were not taken care of properly. | Read more|
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi said all nations should unite in tackling the threats posed by cryptocurrencies, speaking virtually at the 2022 World Economic Forum's annual conference in Davos, Switzerland. | Read more|
The 10 biggest US airlines have warned that the impending switch-on of 5G mobile phone services will cause "major disruption" to flights. | Read more|
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman today said the Supreme Court's order on the 2005 Antrix-Devas deal was "proof of the Congress's misuse of power". | Read more|
If Russia invades Ukraine, the US will move strongly to damage Moscow’s strategic position and employ measures that take aim at the country's economy, a top White House official threatened on Sunday. | Read more|
Doctors treating patients with coronavirus disease (Covid-19) should avoid prescribing steroids and get them tested for tuberculosis if severe cough persists, the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has said in its updated set of guidelines. | Read more|
Omicron has breached the political, financial and technology centers of China for the first time, putting pressure on the country's response to the more transmissible variant as it awaits the Winter Olympics starting in less than three weeks. | Read more|
Over 90 inmates and 80 jail officials have tested positive for Covid-19 at prisons in Delhi, officials said on Monday. | Read more|
Expelled Uttarakhand BJP leader Harak Singh Rawat broke down on camera today as he accused the ruling party of removing him without speaking to him. | 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|
A major winter storm has brought heavy snow and ice to parts of the US and Canada, putting more than 80 million people under weather warnings. | Read more|
Delhi health minister Satyendar Jain said the city is expected to report around 14,000-15,000 cases today. “Around 2.85 crore doses have been administered in Delhi, with 100 percent of the eligible population inoculated with the first dose and 80 percent with the second,” he said. He added that 1.28 lakh people hav | Read more|
A US Navy submarine carrying dozens of nuclear warheads sailed into a Pacific base for a rare visit on Saturday, with the Navy calling it a message to allies in the region. | Read more|
Akhilesh Yadav - whose Samajwadi Party was served an Election Commission notice last week for violating Covid safety protocols - today tweeted a video of a BJP MLA holding a roadshow - also in violation of the rules - in Uttar Pradesh's Amroha ahead of next month's election. | Read more|
India reported 2,71,202 fresh Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, marginally higher than Saturday’s infections, data updated by the Union Ministry of Health showed on Sunday morning. | Read more|
Thousands of Austrians took to the streets of Vienna to protest against an upcoming parliamentary vote to make Covid-19 vaccines mandatory, with demonstrators calling for the government to be replaced. | Read more|
The video of a group of men assaulting a woman in Madhya Pradesh's Indore has gone viral on social media, triggering sharp reactions especially given that the main accused is a doctor. | Read more|
Four people who were held hostage at a synagogue in a suburb of Dallas, Texas, have been freed unharmed after a 10-hour stand-off with police. | Read more|
Former UP minister Dara Singh Chauhan, who had left the BJP earlier this week, joined the Samajwadi Party on Sunday. This comes days after two former UP ministers, including OBC leader Swami Prasad Maurya, and five BJP MLAs joined the SP in the presence of party chief Akhilesh Yadav. | Read more|
Iran and Saudi Arabia are preparing to reopen their respective embassies in Tehran and Riyadh, and wil lre-establish full diplomatic ties, an Iranian lawmaker has said. | Read more|
Another state has now invited US billionaire Elon Musk to invest after he said that electric car pioneer Tesla was "working through" a lot of challenges with the Indian government ahead of long-awaited plans to launch in the country. | Read more|
A January 8 order of a Superior Court in the Quebec region of Canada – identifying India’s public aircraft carrier Air India as an alter ego of the government of India – has been cited by investors in the startup firm Devas Multimedia to seek seizures of Air India assets in the United States to recover $111 milli | Read more|
Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail Limited (ABFRL), an India-based fashion retail company, has become a victim of a massive data breach. | Read more|
Russia is plotting to stage acts of provocation to create a pretext to invade Ukraine, a US official has said. | Read more|
Coronavirus Omicron India LIVE News: India reported 2,68,833 lakh fresh Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, ending at 8 am on Saturday. | Read more|
A large fire broke out at a chemical plant in Passaic, New Jersey, with nearby residents urged to stay inside with their windows closed. One of the facilities at the plant reportedly has a major chlorine stockpile. | Read more|
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath will contest next month's Assembly election from the Gorakhpur (Urban) seat, the BJP said Saturday afternoon, as it released its first list of candidates. | Read more|
A tsunami warning has been issued in several countries, including Tonga and New Zealand, after a giant underwater volcano eruption. | Read more|
The Mumbai-Delhi Rajdhani Express train hit a cement pillar, which some miscreants had allegedly placed on the railway track near Valsad in south Gujarat, although no passenger was injured, police officials said on Saturday. | Read more|
Dozens of freight cars are broken into every day on Los Angeles's railways by thieves who take advantage of the trains' stops to loot packages bought online, leaving thousands of gutted boxes and products that will never reach their destinations. | Read more|
As Makar Sankranti celebrations commence, lakhs of devotees are seen taking part in the Gangasagar Mela in West Bengal's Sagar Island, even as Covid cases surge in the eastern state amid the country's third Omicron-driven wave, during which India's coronavirus cases have multiplied 30-fold within a month. | Read more|
Moscow will continue to ignore American demands that it stops military exercises near the country’s border with Ukraine because nobody has the right to dictate what Russia can do inside its own territory, the Kremlin has said. | Read more|
India reported 2,64,202 fresh Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, ending at 9 am on Friday, marking a 6.7 per cent uptick since yesterday. With 1,09,345 recoveries , active cases are now at 12,72,073, while the daily positivity rate has risen to 14.78 per cent. Confirmed cases of the Omicron variant presently stand at | Read more|