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Mohan Guruswamy | NRIs a master race'? It's not they who are special

The NRIs who talk at our Pravasi Bharatiya melas hardly remit any money back home, but they talk a lot telling us what...

30 March 2021 1:14 AM IST

A health worker holds a vial of the Sputnik V vaccine against COVID-19 while Charles Chaplins movies are projected at the Lumiere movie theater, used as vaccination center, in Rosario, Santa Fe province, Argentina, on March 26, 2021. (Marcelo Manera / AFP)

'Dr Reddy's expects Sputnik V vaccine to get approval from Indian...

Dr Reddy's has partnered with the Russia Direct Investment Fund to bring the Sputnik V vaccine to India and other...

29 March 2021 2:18 PM IST

$Peter Ben Embarek of the World Health Organization team holds up a chart showing pathways of transmission of the virus during a joint news conference at the end of the WHO mission in Wuhan in central Chinas Hubei province. A joint WHO-China study on the origins of COVID-19 says that transmission of the virus from bats to humans through another animal is the most likely scenario and that a lab leak is \extremely unlikely,\ according to a draft copy obtained by The Associated Press. (AP)$ Science

Leaked WHO report says COVID likely passed from bats to humans through...

The researchers listed four scenarios in order of likelihood for the emergence of the virus named SARS-CoV-2

29 March 2021 1:39 PM IST

Women play with colours ahead of Holi festival, in Lucknow on March 27, 2021. (PTI/Nand Kumar)

Delhi Police warns of strict action against violation of COVID...

Police personnel, besides patrolling, are also urging to people to stay in their homes in view of rising coronavirus...

29 March 2021 12:27 PM IST

Ever Given, a Panama-flagged cargo ship that is wedged across the Suez Canal and blocking traffic in the vital waterway is seen Sunday, March 28, 2021. The massive Ever Given, Japanese-owned ship that carries cargo between Asia and Europe, got stuck Tuesday in a single-lane stretch of the canal. (AP/Mohamed Elshahed)

Ever Given starts to move in Suez Canal: maritime traffic tracking...

Each day of the blockade could be costing global trade some $6-10 billion, according to a study published Friday by...

29 March 2021 12:23 PM IST

Anti-coup protesters run around their makeshift barricade they burn to make defense line during a demonstration in Yangon, Myanmar, Sunday, March 28, 2021. Protesters in Myanmar returned to the streets Sunday to press their demands for a return to democracy, just a day after security forces killed more than 100 people in the bloodiest day since last months military coup. (AP)

Thousands flee into Thailand following Myanmar air strikes

The Security Council is likely to hold closed consultations on the escalating situation in Myanmar, UN diplomats said...

29 March 2021 11:35 AM IST

Medical workers note down details of tourists for a Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) test at India Gate lawns in New Delhi on March 27, 2021. (Prakash SINGH / AFP)

India records 68,020 new COVID cases, highest single-day spike since...

India's COVID tally had crossed 20 lakh mark on August 7 last year, 30 lakh on August 23, 40 lakh on September 5 and 50...

29 March 2021 11:01 AM IST

Security officers disperse demonstrators protesting against the visit of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi after Friday prayers at Baitul Mokarram mosque in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Friday, March 26, 2021. Witnesses said violent clashes broke out after one faction of protesters began waving their shoes as a sign of disrespect to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and another group tried to stop them. Local media said the protesters who tried to stop the shoe-waving are aligned with the ruling Awami League party. The party criticized the other protest faction for attempting to create chaos in the country during Modis visit. (AP)

Violence breaks out in Bangladesh as protests grow against Modi's...

Five people died on Friday, and another six the next day, after police shot at demonstrators in several major districts...

28 March 2021 3:21 PM IST

A police officer stands guard near a church where an explosion went off in Makassar, South Sulawesi, Indonesia, Sunday, March 28, 2021. (AP)

Suspected suicide bombing at Indonesian church wounds 14 people

The congregation had been inside the church on the island of Sulawesi at the time of the explosion, police said, just as...

28 March 2021 2:19 PM IST

Anti-coup protesters gesture with a three-fingers salute, a symbol of resistance during a demonstration during by police crack down in Thaketa township Yangon, Myanmar, Saturday, March 27, 2021. (AP)

Myanmar mourns bloodiest day since coup, U.N. investigator condemns...

Children were among those killed on Saturday, Myanmar's Armed Forces Day, according to news reports and witnesses

28 March 2021 2:09 PM IST

Ever Given, a Panama-flagged cargo ship, that is wedged across the Suez Canal and blocking traffic in the vital waterway is seen Saturday, March 27, 2021. Tugboats and a specialized suction dredger worked to dislodge a giant container ship that has been stuck sideways in Egypts Suez Canal for the past three days, blocking a crucial waterway for global shipping. (AP)

2 tugboats speed to Egypt's Suez Canal as shippers avoid it

The tugboats will nudge the 400-meter-long Ever Given as dredgers continue to vacuum up sand from underneath the vessel

28 March 2021 1:55 PM IST

A health worker collects a nasal swab sample from a woman to test for the Covid-19 coronavirus infection at a government hospital in Hyderabad. (AFP)

Daily COVID-19 deaths over 300 for first time this year, 62,714 new...

Registering a steady increase for the 18th day in row, active cases increased to 4,86,310 comprising 4.06 per cent of...

28 March 2021 11:18 AM IST