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Global banking major Standard Chartered's Group Chief Executive Bill Winters said India is "some place in between", wherein it is not showing the V-shaped recovery like China.

Five more COVID-19 patients died in Himachal Pradesh on Wednesday, pushing the death toll to 136, while 280 fresh cases took the state tally to 13,050. Additional Chief Secretary (Health) R D Dhiman said two deaths were reported each from Mandi and Ka...

The 65-year old minister, a BJP MP from Belagavi in north Karnataka, was admitted to the AIIMS after testing positive for COVID-19 on September 11.

The performance audit was undertaken to get an assurance that the system of NPS was established as envisaged, all eligible government sector employees had been covered and due contributions (from subscribers and employers) were timely deducted and remitte...

Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz took aim at Iran during his debut on Wednesday at the annual United Nations meeting of world leaders, calling for a comprehensive solution to contain Riyadh's regional rival and stop it from getting weapons of mass...

In a series of tweets, Thackeray said parts of Mumbai have received over 83 per cent of the annual normal September rainfall in less than 12 hours.

Candidates must reach the examination centre well ahead of time to ensure staggered movement and smooth entry to avoid overcrowding. While candidates are required to carry masks and sanitiser, use of gloves is optional, CICSE Chief said.

A handful of social media stars and influencers have publicly flouted rules aimed at containing the coronavirus pandemic and even encouraged others to do so, and authorities from the Netherlands to the United States are not happy.

A fourth-term MP from Belagavi, Angadi is the first Union minister to have died of coronavirus. At least six MLAs and three MPs have earlier succumbed to it.

At least four COVID-19 care centres in Aurangabad will be upgraded as dedicated health centres with increased bed capacity amid the rise in infections in the city, a senior official said on Wednesday. The civic body has shut its testing centres at the c...

The Congress would set up committees at the grassroots level in Andhra Pradesh as part of efforts to strengthen it in the state, AICC general secretary Ommen Chandy said on Wednesday. Chandy, in-charge of party affairs in the state, held meetings wit...

Washington (AP) The White House says President Donald Trump will pay his respects to the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Thursday at the Supreme Court. The casket of the second woman to serve on the nation's high court will be placed atop the Suprem...

: A few days before her 28th birthday on August 27, a pregnant woman here found she had contracted COVID-19, but what was her greatest worry was what lay in store for her baby. Displaying grit while going through an induced coma, Priyadarshini was deliv...

A Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor using computer science to detect cancer and discover new drugs has won a new $1 million award for artificial intelligence.

The number of COVID-19 patients in Delhi who are in home isolation fell on Tuesday by nearly 750 compared to the previous day, the decline being recorded after nearly a month of a steady rise in such cases, according to official data. However, the numbe...

A Georgia man has been sentenced to 40 years in prison for coercing more than 100 girls to send him sexually explicit photos and videos.