Two people have fallen ill during the trials of AstraZeneca’s coronavirus vaccine in the UK, the company’s internal papers revealed, and a source said they had both suffered from the same serious neurological di...

New Delhi: The government fronted six of its top ministers to launch a scathing attack on the opposition on Sunday as Rajnath Singh said the behaviour meted out to the Deputy Chairperson of the Rajya Sabha was not just “unprecedented” but “...

New Delhi: Days after social media giant Facebook didn’t turn up before the Delhi Assembly panel, the committee on Sunday issued fresh summons to the tech company’s India Vice President and Managing Director Ajit Mohan. The panel said that...

New Delhi: China’s President Xi Jinping and the Communist Party’s Central Committee have laid out a plan in which the party has better control over private business in China. All regions and departments in the country have been told to foll...

New Delhi: Hitting out at the central government for its “mismanagement” in handling the Covid-19 pandemic, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor urged the Centre to become more transparent in its functioning and recognise the “follies” of the current...

New Delhi: A total of 32,238 Central Armed Police Force (CAPF) personnel tested positive for Covid-19 so far, the Parliament was informed on Sunday. Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai told the Lok Sabha, in a written reply, that the C...

Vil Mirzayanov's apology comes as another scientist who worked on programme denied Navalny was poisoned with Novichok.

The situation is stable as preparations are under way to evacuate the Amorella, coastguard says.

Mumbai: Aarti Bajaj, first wife of Anurag Kashyap, has come out in support of the filmmaker, who has been accused by budding actress Payal Ghosh for sexual harassment. On Sunday, Aarti took to her unverified Instagram account and posted a n...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha is now in a better position to manage the COVID-19 situation which is climbing at an alarming rate across the country. In Odisha, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik had recently directed his team of officials to ensure that a...

Mumbai: Apart from producing, actor Vivek Oberoi will also be seen acting in the debut film of Shweta Tiwari’s daughter Palak Tiwari. Titled “Rosie:The Saffron Chapter”, the film is a horror-thriller based on true events in Gurugram. Basica...

New Delhi: With 21 states expressing their preference for the Borrowing Option-1 proposed by the Centre to meet the GST compensation needs of states this year, decks have been cleared for the GST Council to approve the new compensation mech...

New Delhi: The Centre has so far collected a total revenue of Rs 9,538 crore through “Vivad Se Vishwas”, the dispute resolution scheme for direct tax, Parliament was informed on Sunday. Minister of State for Finance Anurag Thakur told the R...

Several hundred people smashed up storefronts, torched American flags and harassed motorists in Portland, Oregon, following a brief lull in nearly nightly riots due to wildfires tearing through the state....

Former President Bill Clinton has called President Donald Trump’s decision to fill the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Supreme Court seat “superficially hypocritical.” His own party colleagues aren’t above th...

French giants Paris Saint-Germain have reportedly opened talks with Tottenham Hotspur to sign Dele Alli, who was left out of a second consecutive matchday squad by manager Jose Mourinho on Sunday....

Lucknow: Audio capsules recorded by a faculty member of a degree college in Uttar Pradesh have proved to be a boon for visually challenged students. The faculty member Rakesh Jain who is recording these capsules of knowledge is also visuall...

Cuttack: Taking into account the prevelance of COVID-19 positive cases in some sections of the High Court, the Orissa HC and its offices will remain closed on September 21 and 22. This period will be used for extensive sanitisation of the p...

Bhubaneswar: Another 4018 patients have recovered from COVID-19 in Odisha and are being discharged on Sunday, informed the Health & Family Welfare Department. With this, the total recovered cases of Odisha now stand at 145675. District-wise...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has expressed confidence that Washington’s bid to unilaterally reimpose UN sanctions on his country will fail, noting that even US allies oppose the decision....

Panaji: The National Organisation for Tobacco Eradication on Sunday welcomed the direction of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) to the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) to lay down guidelines for disposal of cigarette and bidi butts wi...

New Delhi: The Centre on Sunday introduced the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2020 in the Lok Sabha to make the earlier law more stringent and make Aadhaar mandatory for registration and to give the government powers to s...

New Delhi: Soon after an unprecedented ruckus broke out in the Rajya Sabha with some House members squatting in the premises that forced the Lok Sabha to be delayed, a high-level meeting was convened at the residence of Rajya Sabha Chairman...

Bhubaneswar: A native talent from Odisha’s tribal dominated district, Koraput – Namita Meleka has gained immense popularity after her renditions were posted on the social media. A couple of days after Koraput district administration announc...

Mumbai: Shweta Singh Kirti, a sister of late actor Sushant Singh Rajput, was touched to see a sculptor carving a statue of her late brother in wax. Shweta took to the social media to express her gratitude, saying she felt “as if bhai came a...

The Stream meets Deputy Secretary-General and Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications about a landmark year.

A California judge on Sunday blocked the US Department of Commerce from enforcing President Donald Trump’s executive order that requires the Chinese messenger WeChat to be removed from app stores in the US....

A self-proclaimed alien hunting expert believes he has discovered a 16-meter tall alien robot hiding out in extraterrestrial enthusiasts’ Mecca, the mysterious Area 51. Scott C Waring...

The Ghanaian sports world is in mourning today following the deaths of eight young football players in a tragic accident on Saturday after a bus plunged into the the Offinso river. Si...

Younger Mapuche are organising and some are taking up arms to expel people they view as foreign invaders.

New Delhi: Diesel prices continued to decline for the fourth consecutive day on Sunday on the back of falling global crude prices. In the national capital, diesel was priced at Rs 71.58 per litre, down from Rs 71.82 on Saturday. Similarly i...

Mumbai: Actor Rana Daggubati will soon be seen hosting an animated series, Why are you?, and describes the web series as a quirky irreverent fiction comedy. Rana is also a creative producer of the show. “Animation and stories told in that f...

New Delhi: The Golden Baby Leagues, a unique initiative for kids between six and 13 years, has helped fight the menace of drug trafficking in Pulwama, Kashmir, a statement from the All India Football Federation (AIFF) said on Sunday. The ef...

Bhubaneswar: As many as 325 new positive cases of COVID-19 have been detected from the jurisdiction of Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) in the last 24 hours. Among the new cases, 107 are Quarantine Cases and 218 are Local Contact Cas...

Bhubaneswar: People who are afflicted with COVID-19 are potentially capable of infecting others one or two days before showing symptoms. This contagious phase continues for a period of two weeks, therefore one must be very careful during th...

A senior Twitter engineer has expressed contrition after a viral thread accused the platform’s photo-cropping algorithm of preferring white faces over black ones, in the latest example of ‘the woke’ eating their...

Days after dozens of officers were suspended for sharing Nazi-related content online, the German interior minister stubbornly refuses to investigate racism in the police ranks, saying the entire society needs to...

Gov't says laws make it easier for farmers to sell produce directly to big buyers, as opposition and farmers protest.

Polls in seven regions and referendum to slim down parliament are taking place under strict COVID-19 measures.

Opposition seeking president's exit after disputed election calls for protests a day after hundreds of women were held.

New Delhi: Loans totalling Rs 70,590 crore have been sanctioned so far to power distribution companies (discom) out of the Rs 90,000-crore liquidity package announced by the Centre, Union Power Minister RK Singh told the Rajya Sabha on Sund...

New Delhi: Freelance journalist Rajeev Sharma arrested under the Official Secrets Act has claimed innocence, telling a Delhi court in his bail plea that he did not commit any crime but framed in a false case. A Patiala House court is likely...

Bengaluru: Six drug peddlers, including two Nigerians, have been arrested in separate cases and different types of drugs/banned substances seized from them, Bengaluru police said on Sunday. “City Crime Branch officials arrested the two Nige...

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday again sought to assure the opposition on minimum support price (MSP) and to allay the fears of farmers after the two agriculture Bills were passed by Parliament with the Rajya Sabha giving i...

The US budget deficit is set to hit $3.3 trillion when the fiscal year ends in September, while the national debt is projected to be equal to the size of the entire US economy in 2021....

Former coal industry executive and ex-con Don Blankenship doesn’t expect to become commander-in-chief, but hopes to usher in a movement to break the Republican/Democrat stranglehold in America....

Talking to RT Sport, Russian pentathlon star Uliana Batashova has opened up on the secrets of pentathlon and her ambitions as a designer, also describing her attitude towards revealing photoshoots....

In South Africa, Gauteng's railway system grinds to a halt, leaving hundreds of thousands stranded.