Those who have weaker immunity or are on a medicine that affects their immune system and people with allergies must not take the Covaxin shot, vaccine-makers Bharat Biotech warned on Monday in a fact-sheet, two days after India began mass vaccinations against Covid. | Read more|
Alia Bhatt was reportedly hospitalised earlier this week due to exhaustion as she rapidly shoots for her upcoming film, ‘Gangubai Kathiawadi’. | Read more|
A 36-year-old Indian-origin man who was too scared to fly due to the coronavirus pandemic and lived undetected for nearly three months in a secure area of Chicago's international airport has been arrested, US authorities said. | Read more|
A fact-check into social media claims that Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla's daughter Anjali Birla cleared the country's top civil services examination without even appearing for the highly competitive, three-test process have revealed that they are are false. | Read more|
A case was registered at Oshiwara police station on Monday after a TV actor filed a complaint against a pilot accusing him of raping her on the pretext of marriage. | Read more|
Senior leader Sanjay Raut said that the Republic TV editor-in-chief having prior information about the Balakot air strikes hints at a breach in national security. | Read more|
In yet another case of the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Manipur government rounding up journalists in the state under draconian laws, two senior journalists Paojel Chaoba and Dhiren Sadokpam have been detained on Sunday. As per news report of The Wire, while Chaoba is the executive editor of The Frontier Manipur, an onli | Read more|
The entry of protesting farmers into Delhi has to be decided by the Delhi Police as it is a matter of "law and order", the Supreme Court said today as the centre sought an order against the proposed tractor rally on Republic Day, January 26. | Read more|
Nazara Technologies Ltd., the cricket games developer backed by billionaire Rakesh Jhunjhunwala, became the first Indian gaming technology company to seek a market debut as mobile entertainment takes off across the world's No. 2 smartphone arena. | Read more|
Billionaire Ajay Piramal's conglomerate won bidding for bankrupt Indian shadow lender Dewan Housing Finance Corporation, advancing a keenly watched insolvency that's been a test of the country's bankruptcy system. | Read more|
Opposition party leaders are demanding a high-level probe into journalist Arnab Goswami’s alleged leaked chats, suggesting it pointed to collusion and leak of classified security information. The official channels of the Bharatiya Janata Party, however, have so far remained silent on the issue. | Read more|
The Farm ordinances – which consequently paved the way for the three controversial farm laws in September 2020 – were promulgated and introduced in parliament in June 2020 without the report of the high powered committee of Chief Ministers being appraised by the Governing Council of NITI Aayog, a reply by the plann | Read more|
Punjabi actor Deep Sidhu and farmers' leader Baldev Singh Sirsa are among 40 people summoned by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) for questioning in a case related to the banned outfit Sikhs For Justice. The actor, who has backed the farmers protesting against the centre's contentious agriculture laws, has been a | Read more|
A 13-year-old girl was kidnapped and gang-raped by nine men in Madhya Pradesh's Umaria district twice within five days, the police have said, adding seven people have been arrested so far in the case. The incident comes at a time when the Shivraj Singh Chouhan government is running the 'Samman' campaign - a fortnight-l | Read more|
Gunmen shot dead two Afghan women judges working for the Supreme Court during an early morning ambush in the country's capital Sunday, officials said, as a wave of assassinations continues to rattle the nation. | Read more|
Telangana Health Minister Eatala Rajender, who had declared he would take the first vaccine shot in his state, did not do so today citing Prime Minister Narendra Modi's "strict instruction" that health workers should be first in line. | Read more|
Resident doctors at one of Delhi's biggest healthcare hubs, the Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital, today demanded they be administered Covishield vaccine and not Covaxin since the former has completed all three stages of trials as required under protocol. The second one, produced by Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech, is still on | Read more|
Former Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) Chief Executive Partho Dasgupta and journalist Arnab Goswami allegedly colluded to give the latter’s news channel, Republic TV, an advantage over rivals, according to purported WhatsApp conversations between the two that went viral Friday. | Read more|
The users of highly-encrypted Signal app faced trouble sending messages and the company said on Saturday that it was still working to bring additional capacity online to handle peak traffic levels. | Read more|
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, launching India's vaccination drive today, paid tribute to Indian frontline workers and scientists and warned against falling for propaganda or rumours over vaccines. | Read more|
Many U.S. Secret Service agents have stood guard in Washington's elite Kalorama neighborhood, home over the years to Cabinet secretaries and former presidents. Those agents have had to worry about death threats, secure perimeters and suspicious strangers. But with the arrival of Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, they had | Read more|
The Trump administration in its waning days took another swipe at China and its biggest firms on Thursday, imposing sanctions on officials and companies for alleged misdeeds in the South China Sea and imposing an investment ban on nine more firms. | Read more|
When Dubai-based Indian teen Riva Tulpule was moving house a few years ago, she found lots of disused electronics while helping her mom clear out drawers. This sparked the beginning of her campaign ‘WeCareDXB’ that she said has collected over 25 tonnes of e-waste for recycling in over four years. | Read more|
Thousands of pilgrims have gathered on the banks of India's Ganges river at the start of the Kumbh Mela, billed as the world's largest human gathering. One of the most auspicious events in Hinduism is taking place this year during the coronavirus pandemic. | Read more|
In a clear message to China, Chief of Army Staff Gen MM Naravane on Friday said no one should make any mistake of testing India's patience though it is committed to resolve the border standoff along the northern frontier through talks and political efforts. | Read more|
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch the nationwide Covid vaccination drive on Saturday, a top official said today. Some 3 lakh people will receive shots on the first day, VK Paul, member of plan body NITI Aayog, told NDTV. | Read more|
The House made history Wednesday by impeaching a president for a second time, indicting President Donald Trump a week before he leaves office for inciting a riot with false claims of a stolen election that led to the storming of the Capitol and five deaths. | Read more|
Twitter Inc Chief Executive Jack Dorsey said on Wednesday that banning President Donald Trump from its social media platform after last week's violence at the U.S. Capitol was the "right decision," but said it sets a dangerous precedent. San Francisco-based Twitter last week removed Trump's account, which had 88 millio | Read more|
RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat on Thursday participated in Pongal celebrations here and made a surpise visit to the house of a functionary of the organisation where he recited a couplet from Tamil classic Tirukkural. | Read more|
Maharashtra cabinet minister Nawab Malik, whose son-in-law has been arrested by the NCB in a drugs case, on Thursday said nobody is above law and it should be applied without any discrimination. In a post on Twitter, the NCP leader, without mentioning any incident, said the law will take its due course and justice will | Read more|
With at least five Republicans joining their push to impeach President Donald Trump over the storming of the U.S. Capitol, Democrats in the House of Representatives stood poised for a history-making vote to try to remove the president from office. | Read more|
Maharashtra Minister Dhananjay Munde has denied allegations of rape by a woman, claiming he has been in a relationship with her sister for years. The allegations have landed him in a controversy with the opposition BJP calling for his resignation. | Read more|
Hitting out at the centre over an affidavit filed in the Supreme Court against the farmers' parade on Republic Day, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi today referred to the deaths of those who have died after thousands started camping near Delhi's borders. | Read more|
All schools in Delhi have been allowed to reopen for students of classes 10 and 12 from next Monday, January 18, in view of the board exams conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) that start on May 4. | Read more|
The North and South Delhi Municipal Corporations have banned the sale of chicken in their respective regions, following confirmation of bird flu cases in the national capital. The civic bodies also warned hotels and restaurants of action if they served egg-based dishes or poultry meat. | Read more|