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Earlier in the day, the CBSE opposed in the Supreme Court a plea seeking postponement of compartment exams for Class 12 scheduled this month, saying all “necessary” safety measures for students are being taken in view of COVID-19 pandemic.

Both India and China are members of the SCO, an eight-nation regional grouping which primarily focuses on issues relating to security and defence.

Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju on Friday launched Bhaichung Bhutia Football Schools' app, 'enJogo', to enable youngsters continue training amid the COVID19 pandemic. Launching the app, Rijiju said it has the potential to revolutionise how football traini...

The company had received approval from the Drugs Controller General of India to manufacture Favipiravir to treat patients with mild to moderate COVID-19 symptoms.

With the recovery of 66,659 patients in the last 24 hours, India has continued its trajectory of posting more than 60,000 recoveries for the eighth consecutive day, the ministry said.

Desperate for a drink? There is spitfermented wine, liquor fermented in prison toilets, and a strong Scottish brew served from the mouth of a taxidermied squirrel.

A Mumbai court on Friday sent alleged peddler Abdul Basit Parihar in the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) custody till September 9 in a drugs case.

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is set to criticize President Donald Trump’s stewardship of the coronavirusravaged economy on Friday as both campaigns kick into high gear with less than two months to go to the Nov. 3 U.S. election.

The Kremlin said on Friday that it wanted dialogue with Germany over the case of opposition politician Alexei Navalny and that Russian doctors who treated him initially were much more transparent that the German doctors treating him now.

COVID19 has forced 12 schools in mainland France to close, but the rest of the almost 60,000 opened as planned at the start of the academic year, Education Minister JeanMichel Blanquer said on Friday, as coronavirus cases across the country surge.

Sri Lanka began towing a fully loaded supertanker that had caught fire off its east coast after it began drifting towards land, a spokesman for the navy of the Indian Ocean nation said on Friday.

A 34yearold doctor and his associate were arrested for allegedly providing forged COVID19 test reports to people in the national capital, police said on Friday. The accused have been identified as Kush Bihari Parashar, a resident of Malviya Nagar, and...

A blaze erupted at a fireworks factory in southern India on Friday, killing five workers and injuring another four.

Former Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi was admitted to a Milan hospital early Friday as a precaution to monitor his coronavirus infection, a top aide said.

Travellers to the United Kingdom faced what the transport minister said was confusion on Friday as Wales and Scotland slapped a quarantine on arrivals from Portugal but England and Northern Ireland held back from restrictions.

The incident took place on Thursday evening when the four youths harassed the woman outside her house. This led to a clash between two groups during which stones were pelted.