At least three different COVID-19 strains have been detected among 75 patients from Mizoram whose samples were randomly selected and sent for whole genome sequencing, a health official said on Thursday. | Read more|
Shares of food delivery firm Zomato Ltd nearly doubled on Friday in a stellar first listing of a local unicorn in India, setting the pace for a slew of such debuts by internet-based startups that are thriving during the COVID-19 pandemic. | Read more|
Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh and newly appointed state Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu met at the Punjab Bhawan during a ‘tea party’ on Friday. Their meeting, coming after months of confrontation between the two, likely marks the end of the political crisis in the state party unit. | Read more|
At the Tokyo Olympics opening ceremony, India will be 21st out of 205 contingents in the Parade of Nations. The United Arab Emirates will be among the first 10 entrants, while Australia and Austria will enter after Ukraine and Uruguay. The teams enter the stadium in alphabetical order according to the language selected | Read more|
A drone carrying around 5 kilograms of improvised explosive device (IED) was shot down early on Friday by Kashmir Police in Akhnoor’s Gurah Pattan area near the Line of Control. This comes weeks after a drone had dropped explosives on an Air Force base in Jammu. | Read more|
The Maharashtra government informed the Bombay High Court on Friday that a judicial magisterial inquiry into the death of Father Stan Swamy is yet to be initiated. Swamy, who was arrested by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on October 8, 2020, as an accused in the Elgaar Parishad case, died in a private hospital | Read more|
Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha member Dr Santanu Sen was today suspended from the House for the remaining part of the monsoon session for snatching IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw's statement on the Pegasus affair and flinging them amid the uproar in Parliament yesterday. | Read more|
The country's antitrust regulator has accused Amazon.com Inc of concealing facts and making false submissions when it sought approval for a 2019 investment in a Future Group unit, a letter to the U.S. e-commerce giant seen by Reuters showed. | Read more|
Andhra Pradesh police on Wednesday rescued a family, who confined themselves to a tent house for almost 15 months in Andhra Pradesh's Kadali village in fear of getting infected by COVID-19. | Read more|
As floodwater crashed through a busy subway station in China on Tuesday, desperate passengers tried to flee while others were swept helplessly off platforms. | Read more|
Media group Dainik Bhaskar and an Uttar Pradesh-based news channel were raided by Income Tax teams across India this morning over allegations of tax evasion. | Read more|
Iran has opened its first oil terminal in the Gulf of Oman and referenced the “failure” of US sanctions to deter its progress. It will allow oil exports to bypass the Strait of Hormuz, which has recently seen multiple incidents. | Read more|
Farmer leaders who protested against the Centre’s contentious agri laws Thursday said they suspect that they were being snooped on by the government through Israeli software Pegasus. | Read more|
High drama continued in both the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha for the third straight day of the monsoon session today as opposition MPs staged protests over a range of issues, including the Pegasus snooping controversy and today's I-T raids on media houses. | Read more|
Phone numbers used by two Dubai princesses have reportedly been found as part of an investigation into the phone hacking spyware known as Pegasus. | Read more|
Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar Wednesday targeted Congress and The Wire for trying to derail the proceedings of the ongoing Monsoon session of Parliament by floating the Pegasus phone tapping controversy. | Read more|
Australia's two largest states reported sharp increases in new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, a blow to hopes that lockdown orders would be lifted with more than half the country's population under stay-at-home orders. | Read more|
Pakistani Muslim League (Nawaz) vice-president Maryam Nawaz Sharif and Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan’s former wife Jemima Goldsmith were engaged in a Twitter battle over Maryam’s “antisemitic attack” on Imran Khan’s children. | Read more|
No data was provided by states on deaths due to oxygen shortage - this statement by the Centre has led to a huge political backlash. At the peak of second Covid wave, the struggle among India's hospitals and patients had captured global attention. | Read more|
A porn shoot inside a bungalow near Mumbai earlier this year spurred a sprawling investigation that led to the arrest of businessman Raj Kundra, actor Shilpa Shetty's husband, on Monday. | Read more|
The authorities in north-west Nigeria say they have freed 100 women and children - mainly mothers nursing infants - who were seized by bandits. | Read more|
Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee called for the opposition to unite against the BJP today, pointing to the "threat" posed to democracy by what she called a "surveillance state" in the aftermath of the Pegasus scandal. | Read more|
As floods wreak havoc on China’s Henan province, the military has been dispatched to prevent a dam from collapsing. Floodwaters have already washed away two dams elsewhere in China this week. | Read more|
Asia is sliding into a dangerous arms race as smaller nations that once stayed on the sidelines build arsenals of advanced long-range missiles, following in the footsteps of powerhouses China and the United States, analysts say. | Read more|
At least three rockets landed near the Afghan presidential palace on Tuesday as Ashraf Ghani and a group of other leaders marked the start of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha with prayers in the garden. Although there was no immediate claim of responsibility, it was the first rocket attack on Kabul since the Taliban l | Read more|
Kerala's move to "give in to pressure groups" and announce a three-day relaxation of Covid curbs for Bakrid (Eid-ul-Azha) has alarmed the Supreme Court which today said this was "wholly uncalled for". However, it did not cancel the government notification that eased the lockdown in the state. "Alarming state of affairs | Read more|
India’s low spending on public healthcare systems and focus on supporting private healthcare has led to serious inequalities in access to healthcare, especially during the Covid 19 pandemic, according to a new study. | Read more|
Twitter Inc on Monday said it temporarily suspended Republican U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene's account for tweets which violated the social media's misinformation policy on COVID-19. | Read more|
The US has urged Pakistan to continue working with anti terror-financing agency FATF to "swiftly complete" its 27-point action plan by demonstrating that terrorism financing probes and prosecutions target terrorists and commanders of the UN-designated terror groups. At its virtual plenary meeting last month, the Paris- | Read more|
Businessman Raj Kundra, husband of actor and businesswoman Shilpa Shetty, was arrested by the Mumbai Police on Monday in connection with an adult film racket. What is the case, and does Kundra face any other similar case? | Read more|
Rajya Sabha proceedings were adjourned twice during the pre-lunch period on Tuesday after uproar by opposition members over various issues including the Pegasus snooping issue. | Read more|
The Supreme Court today ordered the release of Leichombam Erendro, a Manipur-based political activist arrested for sedition in May over some Facebook posts. The 37-year-old was held under the stringent National Security Act for saying "cow dung and cow urine don't work." | Read more|
At a time when the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) frowns on private virtual currencies, the proposal of cryptocurrency bank Cashaa to launch banking operations in India for customers of virtual currencies like Bitcoin from August, through the credit co-operative society route, has raised eyebrows in financial circles. | Read more|
The British government on Monday lifted pandemic restrictions on daily life in England, scrapping all social distancing in a step slammed by scientists and opposition parties as a dangerous leap into the unknown. | Read more|
The Australian government has said it will be sending Katie Hopkins back to the UK as soon as logistically possible after the TV personality claimed to have breached lockdown rules, sparking backlash and calls for deportation. | Read more|