At terminal 7 inside New York's JFK airport, the first passengers off British Airway's first flight since the borders reopened were greeted with clapping and cheering and company-colored red, white and blue balloons. | Read more|
Since June, hundreds of people have died in a heat wave that broke Canadian heat records. | Read more|
The move follows the World Health Organisation's (WHO) Emergency Use Listing for Covaxin, which is the second most used formulation in India. | Read more|
Bypolls were held for three Assembly and one Lok Sabha seat of which BJP retained its Khandwa parlimentary seat. It also won two of the Assembly seats. | Read more|
The Chief Minister Pu Zoramthanga has requested that Additional Chief Secretary JC Ramthanga be named the new chief secretary in place of Renu Sharma. | Read more|
Chennai, Tamil Nadu Weather Warning: At least five people have died in rain-related incidents across the state, while 538 huts and four houses have been damaged, KKSSR Ramachandran, State Revenue and Disaster Management Minister, said Tuesday. | Read more|
Delhi logged 1,171 dengue cases in the first six days of November, after reporting only 1,196 through the whole of October and just 217 in September, according to PTI | Read more|
Reiterating his earlier charge that Mr Malik has underworld links, the BJP leader, addressing a press conference, presented what he calls "proof" of the connection. | Read more|
The Taliban appointed 44 of its members to key roles including provincial governors and police chiefs on Sunday, a key step in shoring up its governance as the country grapples with growing security and economic problems. It is first large-scale round of appointments announced since the cabinet was formed in September. | Read more|
Residents of Vadrai village in Maharashtra's Palghar district observed a bandh on Monday to protest the killing of a native fisherman by the Pakistan Maritime Security Agency (PMSA) off the Gujarat coast. | Read more|
An energy crisis in two of Asia's key economies that caused power shortages and threatened slower growth is beginning to ease, though further risks remain. Supplies of coal, the key source of electricity generation in China and India, are rising again after governments pressed miners to boost output. That's allowing po | Read more|
Only Mamata Banerjee got it spot on, Trinamool Congress leader Derek O'Brien tweeted today on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's sudden demonetisation move or ban on high-value currency notes in 2016. On the five year anniversary of the move, the Trinamool Rajya Sabha member shared a screenshot of five tweets from the West | Read more|
There are more delegates at COP26 associated with the fossil fuel industry than from any single country, analysis shared with the BBC shows. Campaigners led by Global Witness assessed the participant list published by the UN at the start of this meeting. | Read more|
China's military has built mockups in the shape of a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier and other U.S. warships, possibly as training targets, in the desert of Xinjiang, satellite images by Maxar showed on Sunday. | Read more|
Four CRPF personnel were killed and three others injured after their colleague opened fire at them in a camp of the paramilitary force in Chhattisgarh''s Sukma district on Monday, a police official said. | Read more|
Expressing displeasure of the status report filed by the Uttar Pradesh government on the October 3 Lakhimpur Kheri incident, the Supreme Court said that a judge of a different High Court will be monitoring the proceedings till the chargesheet is filed. The top court listed the hearing again for Friday. | Read more|
Prime Minister Narendra Modi kicked off the BJP’s national executive meeting on Sunday to discuss organisational matters as well as its strategy for the upcoming assembly polls in five states. | Read more|
Iraq’s Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi survived an assassination attempt with armed drones that targeted his residence early Sunday and officials said he was unharmed. The attack was a major escalation amid tensions sparked by the refusal of Iran-backed militias to accept last month’s parliamentary election resul | Read more|
Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik on Sunday accused the NCB’s Mumbai Zonal Unit director Sameer Wankhede of being part of a larger plot to kidnap Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan. | Read more|
Three days after they charged four Supreme Court lawyers under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA), police in Tripura have invoked the same stringent anti-terrorism law against 102 social media handles, and served notices on US-based Internet companies seeking detailed information on the owners of these acc | Read more|
India and France agreed to strengthen defence and security partnership by enhancing intelligence and information sharing, bolstering capabilities, expanding military drills and pursuing new initiatives in maritime, space and cyber domains, the Indian embassy in Paris said on Saturday. | Read more|
Tesla Inc Chief Executive Elon Musk on Saturday asked his 62.5 million followers on Twitter in a poll if he should sell 10 per cent of his Tesla stock. | Read more|
The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) today asked the Congress government in Punjab to issue an executive order for non-implementation of the centre's move of extending the BSF's jurisdiction. | Read more|
For more than two decades, promoters and purveyors of nuclear energy felt shunned at UN climate change conferences. At the COP26 summit underway in Glasgow, however, they have been welcomed with open arms, the UN's top nuclear regulator told AFP. | Read more|
Punjab Advocate General APS Deol has hit back at Congress leader Navjot Sidhu - who has demanded he resign from his appointed post for representing two accused cops in the 2015 sacrilege and police firing case. Mr Deol slammed the former cricketer for "repeated utterances (that) seek to derail the earnest efforts of th | Read more|
The Enforcement Directorate will today seek extended custody of former Maharashtra minister Anil Deshmukh, who was arrested by the agency earlier this week over a money laundering case. | Read more|
Democrats rescued President Joe Biden's faltering domestic agenda Friday, passing a giant infrastructure package that is one of the pillars of his $3 trillion economic vision after rebel moderates had earlier blocked a vote on his social welfare expansion. | Read more|
Days after Pakistan’s NSA declared he would not be attending the conference on Afghanistan in India, New Delhi said Friday that Russia, Iran and Central Asian countries have confirmed their participation. A response from China is awaited. | Read more|
A drugs case involving Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik's son-in-law was among six transferred out of the Narcotics Control Bureau's Mumbai unit on Friday evening, and handed to a special investigation team to be led by senior police officer Sanjay Singh. | Read more|
China on Saturday successfully launched three new remote sensing satellites from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre in the country's southwestern Sichuan province, official media reported. | Read more|
A thick blanket of toxic smog gripped Delhi and nearby cities for a second consecutive day today as the national capital region continued to suffer from a post-Diwali hangover. | Read more|
Marilia Mendonca, one of the hottest young stars of Brazil's answer to country music, died in a plane crash on Friday, officials said. The 26-year-old mega-popular "sertanejo" singer was killed when the small plane she was traveling in crashed in Minas Gerais state, firefighters said. | Read more|
India has raised the issue of overflight clearance for Srinagar-Sharjah flight with Pakistan through diplomatic channels and asked them to grant it “in the larger interest of common people”, sources said on Thursday. | Read more|
Delhi’s air turned severely polluted the morning after Diwali, with the city having witnessed bursting of firecrackers despite the ban. Levels of pollutants rose sharply from Thursday night onwards, data from the Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) indicates. At the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium station for instance, | Read more|
Aryan Khan, the son of Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan, appeared before the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) on Friday as part of one of the conditions set by the Bombay High Court while granting bail to the 23-year-old who was arrested, along with several others, by the agency in the drugs-on-cruise case. | Read more|