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Poorer nations could start receiving COVID19 vaccines as soon as this month from a World Health Organizationbacked programme aiming to divvy up shots fairly to help end the pandemic, WHO immunization director Kate O'Brien said on Thursday.

Now, the officers of the erstwhile Jammu and Kashmir cadre can be posted to Arunachal Pradesh, Goa, Mizoram and any union territory. Necessary modifications may be made in the corresponding cadre allocation rules by the central government.

China's Baidu Inc plans to form a company to make smart electric vehicles, two sources familiar with the matter said, with manufacturing to be carried out at plants owned by automaker Geely.

Bigg Boss 13 contestant Asim Riaz took to Instagram to share a picture of himself, his girlfriend Himanshi Khurana teased him in the comments section.

The United States' trade deficit surged to its highest level in more than 14 years in November as businesses boosted imports to replenish inventories, offsetting a rise in exports.

Less than a third of Filipinos are willing to get inoculated against the coronavirus, an opinion poll showed on Thursday, as the government races to secure vaccines to give to as many as 70 million people this year.

Amid the bird flu (H5N8) outbreak in Kerala, six crows have died in the border district of Dakshina Kannada in Karnataka and their samples had been sent for tests to ascertain the cause of death, Health Minister K Sudhakar said on Thursday. Necessary...

A group of activists answered a police summons on Thursday over complaints that could see them jailed for up to 15 years for insulting Thailand's king, as authorities increasingly use "lese majeste" laws against prodemocracy protest leaders.

As per the first advanced estimates of the national income released by the National Statistical Office (NSO) on Thursday, there was contraction in almost all sectors with the exception of agriculture.

Germany faces the risk of a much longer coronavirus lockdown if the federal states do not consistently implement tougher restrictions, especially in light of a highly contagious new variant, an aide to Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday.

Actor Siddhant Chaturvedi is back with a new poem, and his fans on social media find the new composition relatable and liberating.

White House deputy national security adviser Matt Pottinger has resigned, joining a number of officials who are leaving the administration of President Donald Trump following the storming of Capitol Hill by his supporters.

While Nithilan Eric beat Arunava Majumder 6-4, 6-2 in the boys' summit clash, Reshma Maruri got the better of her sister Suhitha in the girls' final.

The new Lava phone line-up come at a time when there is an even greater focus on smartphone manufacturing within India as well as the push for Made in India products as part of the larger Make In India and Atmanirbhar Bharat initiatives.

The Shiv Sena, which shares power with the NCP and the Congress in Maharashtra, has been demanding for the past couple of decades that Aurangabad be renamed as Sambhajinagar.

According to the recent report, the 9th generation Apple iPad will carry forward the same 10.2-inch screen size.