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$A supporter of presidential candidate Ebrahim Raisi shows her hand with writing in Persian that reads \Raisi\, during a rally in Tehran, Iran. (Photo: AP)$ World

Explained: Iran vote to determine next president, direction

Among the four candidates, hard-line judiciary chief Ebrahim Raisi appears to be the front-runner

17 Jun 2021 1:52 PM IST

Student activists Devangana Kalita, Natasha Narwal and Asif Iqbal Tanha. (Photo: PTI)

Delhi riots: Court orders immediate release of 3 student activists...

The order came two days after the Delhi High Court granted bail to the three student activists

17 Jun 2021 1:33 PM IST

$The row over the purported Â‘toolkit escalated after the Delhi Polices Special Cell visited\ two Twitter India offices on May 24 and served a notice, asking it to share information based on which it had classified Patras tweet as manipulated media. (PTI file photo)$ India

Twitter India MD was questioned by Delhi Police on May 31 in toolkit...

The government had asked Twitter to remove the 'manipulated media' tag as the matter was pending before the law...

17 Jun 2021 12:55 PM IST

Google has previously stated that it has consistently invested in significant product changes, resources, and personnel. (Photo: PTI)

Google enables end-to-end encryption texting within Messages app

The tech giant has been planning on adding end-to-end encryption to its next-gen SMS protocol - RCS for some time now

17 Jun 2021 12:54 PM IST

Spotify Greenroom, too, enables people to join or host live audio rooms, and optionally turn those conversations into podcasts. (Photo: Twitter/@SpotifyGrnroom)

Spotify launches new audio app 'Spotify Greenroom'

The new app is similar to one of the trending social media application Clubhouse

17 Jun 2021 12:48 PM IST

A student receives COVID-19 vaccine dose during a special vaccination drive organised by the Karnataka government for the students, who are going abroad for education and employment, in Bengaluru, June 2, 2021. (PTI /Shailendra Bhojak)

Centre to provide over 56 lakh COVID-19 vaccine doses to states, UTs...

According to MoHFW, as many as 2,18,28,483 COVID-19 vaccine doses are still available with the states and UTs to be...

17 Jun 2021 12:41 PM IST

Workers paste the overlay on the wall of the National Stadium, where opening ceremony and many other events are scheduled for the postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympics, on June 2, 2021, in Tokyo.

Japan set to ease virus emergency ahead of Olympics

Japan has been struggling since late March to slow a wave of infections propelled by more contagious variants

17 Jun 2021 11:13 AM IST

Andreas Raounas, 84, the first patient in Island receives from a nurse the vaccine of Pfizer BioNtech against the COVID-19, at a care home in Nicosia, Cyprus. (Photo: AP/File)

US CDC classifies Delta variant as 'variant of concern'

Previously, the CDC had considered the Delta variant to be a variant of interest

17 Jun 2021 10:44 AM IST

A group of Indians who visited the Taj Mahal monument that was Wednesday reopened to public after the lockdown to curb the spread of coronavirus gather to get photographed in Agra. (Photo: PTI)

India adds 67,208 fresh COVID-19 cases in single day

A net decline of 38,692 cases has been recorded in the caseload in a span of 24 hours

17 Jun 2021 10:15 AM IST

Shenzhou 12 space mission: China will send three astronauts -- Nie Haisheng, Liu Boming, and Tang Hongbo -- as its first crew to a new space station today. (AP Photo)

China successfully launches first crewed mission for space station...

The Shenzhou-12 spacecraft was launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in northwest China's Gobi Desert

17 Jun 2021 9:35 AM IST

A year ago, in retaliation to the illegal custody and barbaric treatment then of two Indian High Commission staffers in Islamabad by Pakistani security agencies after being abducted at gunpoint , India had in June last year asked Pakistan to reduce its staff at its High Commission in New Delhi by half. Representational image/ AP

India, Pak approve fresh visas for diplomatic missions of officials

In February this year, the two nuclear-armed neighbours agreed to a strict observance of the ceasefire along the Line...

17 Jun 2021 9:15 AM IST