Strains of the Covid virus in India with "double mutations" have been found in patients in 10 states and this could be responsible for rising infections and a faster spread in these states, top sources in the Union Health Ministry told NDTV. | Read more|
Reviving the Iran nuclear deal would seem like a simple task for US President Joe Biden. Iran wants him to lift sanctions in exchange for Tehran's return to compliance. But as Iran and the United States resume indirect talks in Vienna led by the European Union, the Biden administration faces the question of which sanct | Read more|
CBSE exams cancelled, postponed: The decision was taken amid growing demands of cancelling or postponing the board exams as coronavirus cases see an unprecedented surge across the country. | Read more|
CBSE Board Exams 2021: The Board Exams for Class 12, which were to be held from May 4 to June 14, have been put off. | Read more|
The boy allegedly ran away with another minor from the same village. | Read more|
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win,"Mr Gandhi tweeted today. | Read more|
Mamata Banerjee also questioned why the Prime Minister was campaigning on days of polling in the state. | Read more|
Uddhav Thackeray's address follows a meeting of the state Covid task force that he chaired on Sunday. | Read more|
Russian-made Covid vaccine Sputnik V has been cleared for emergency use by the Drugs Controller General of India. | Read more|
This comes on a day Uttar Pradesh recorded its highest-ever daily spike. | Read more|
KKR vs MI IPL Live Score 2021: Suryakumar Yadav greeted Harbhajan Singh with three boundaries in a single over. | Read more|
Some Bollywood celebrities and cricketers had occupied hospital beds in Mumbai despite having no serious Covid symptoms, Maharashtra minister Aslam Shaikh said on Tuesday. He said the beds could have been used to admit seriously ill people who needed hospitalisation on priority. | Read more|
India recorded 1,68,912 new Covid cases in the last 24 hours, the sixth record rise in seven days, pushing the country's caseload to over 1.35 crore. The resurgence of the virus led to 904 new deaths, taking the total death count to 1,70,179. | Read more|
A deepening partnership between the US and India in the military and security sphere is "destined to occur" as there is too much in common between the two large democracies that share really good values, according to former American defence secretary Ash Carter. Speaking at a US Chamber of Commerce hosted session, Mr C | Read more|
The use of Russia's Covid vaccine Sputnik-V in India will be discussed by a committee of experts today in the middle of a record spike in virus cases in the country. The vaccine, manufactured in India by Dr Reddy's, has an effectiveness of 91.6 per cent, highest after the Moderna and Pfizer shots. | Read more|
Walmart Inc.'s e-commerce unit signed a pact with tycoon Gautam Adani to build one of the largest retail warehouses in India, as the U.S. giant gears up to battle Amazon.com Inc. and homegrown rivals in the nation. | Read more|
A petition asking for some verses to be removed from the Quran was dismissed today by the Supreme Court, which also fined the petitioner ₹ 50,000 for filing a "frivolous" request. Petitioner Sayed Wasim Rizvi, a former Uttar Pradesh Shia Waqf Board chairman, had called for removing 26 verses in the Quran that he said | Read more|
Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has labelled the killing of four people in central force firing at Cooch Behar "a genocide" and said the victims were "sprayed with bullets in the chest and neck". "This is genocide. They have fired just like a fire spray. They should have fired below the wait. But they have fired | Read more|
An "accident" took place at an Iranian nuclear facility on Sunday but caused no casualties or damage, the Fars news agency reported, citing the spokesman of Iran's nuclear agency. | Read more|
Five terrorists were killed during two separate operations by the security forces in Jammu and Kashmir today. Two security forces have also been injured, police said. A teenager, who had gone missing less than a week ago and was believed to have joined a local terrorist group, was among three suspected terrorist kille | Read more|
Irish prime minister Micheal Martin warned against a "spiral back" into sectarian conflict in Northern Ireland on Saturday, as a week-long streak of riots raised fears for the future of a fragile peace in the British province. Police issued no statements on unrest in Belfast on Saturday, and the streets appeared calm i | Read more|
Prashant Kishor, Mamata Banerjee's election strategist for the Bengal polls, appears to say that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is "as popular as" the Chief Minister in the state in excerpts of a Clubhouse chat posted on Twitter by the BJP's Amit Malviya this morning. The bombshell audio clips dropped as Bengal voted in | Read more|
India witnessed an unprecedented surge of 1,45,384 coronavirus cases, the highest since the start of pandemic, as the country's tally surged to 1,32,05,0926. Night curfews and restrictions are back in many parts amid concerns over second Covid wave. | Read more|
Chinese regulators have hit e-commerce giant Alibaba with a massive 18.2 billion yuan ($2.78 billion) fine over practices deemed to be an abuse of the company's dominant market position, state-run media reported on Saturday. | Read more|
Five Trinamool Congress workers have been shot dead in Bengal's Cooch Behar, the ruling party alleged this afternoon amid polling in 44 seats of the state for the fourth phase of assembly elections. | Read more|
A Texas man who boasted about being on the U.S. Capitol steps during the Jan. 6 insurrection has been arrested by the FBI and accused of planning to detonate a bomb at a data center outside the District of Columbia in the hopes that doing so would cripple not just Internet traffic but also the FBI, CIA and other govern | Read more|
More than 70 vaccination centres have shut down in Mumbai after running out of Covid vaccine doses. | Read more|
In a statement being looked at closely by the Indian government, the US Navy's 7th Fleet has said it conducted Freedom of Navigation Operations within India's exclusive economic zone off the Lakshadweep Islands without India's permission. As per news report of NDTV, this is in dissonance with India's maritime security | Read more|
An Indian couple was found dead at their home in the US after neighbours saw their four-year-old daughter crying alone in the balcony of their house, family sources said on Friday. | Read more|
India has set another record of daily Covid cases with 1,31,968 infections in the last 24 hours, pushing the total case count to over 1.3 crore. The surge, much steeper than last year's first wave, has forced many states have imposed tight curbs. | Read more|
The sudden implosion of Bill Hwang's Archegos Capital Management in late March is one of the most spectacular failures in modern financial history: No individual has lost so much money so quickly. Before he lost it all-all $20 billion-Bill Hwang was the greatest trader you'd never heard of. | Read more|
Twenty-six vaccination centres have been shut in Mumbai, Maharashtra said today, adding that they are waiting for more vaccine doses from the Centre and the Union health ministry has been informed. Of the centres that shut, 23 centres are located in Navi Mumbai. Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar has spoken | Read more|
One of the countries most vulnerable to climate change has also been revealed as a major contributor of methane, a greenhouse gas that's about 80 times more potent in its first two decades in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide. | Read more|
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was taken aback to find her fellow top EU official taking the only chair available next to Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan when the duo visited Ankara, and her spokesman made that clear on Wednesday. | Read more|
Tesla Inc is scouting for locations to open showrooms in three Indian cities and has hired an executive to lead its lobbying and business efforts ahead of its planned entry into the country, sources familiar with the discussions told Reuters. | Read more|