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Nurses keep on a bed babies born on the first day of the New Year 2021, at a hospital in Mirzapur, Friday, Jan. 1, 2021. (PTI)

At nearly 60,000, India records highest number of babies born on New...

In total, an estimated 140 million children will be born in 2021 and their average life expectancy is expected to be 84...

5 Jan 2021 12:46 PM IST

In this May 5, 2018 photo, a giant image of the Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, adorns a tower in Doha, Qatar. Saudi Arabia will open its airspace and land border to Qatar in the first step toward ending a years-long diplomatic crisis that deeply divided US defense partners. (AP/Kamran Jebreili)

Saudi Arabia to lift Qatar embargo, easing the Gulf crisis

Kuwait, which had been mediating throughout the dispute, was first to announce the diplomatic breakthrough through its...

5 Jan 2021 11:27 AM IST

Chinese billionaire businessman Jack Ma. (Photo- PTI)

Jack Ma's disappearing act fuels speculation about billionaire's...

Ma had blasted China's regulatory system in a speech at a late October forum in Shanghai that put him on a collision...

5 Jan 2021 12:02 AM IST

US President Donald Trump. (AFP)

Trump in phone call presses Georgia's election chief to 'find' votes...

The Trump campaign and several of the president's allies have launched dozens of attempts to challenge the poll results...

4 Jan 2021 12:47 PM IST

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi takes her oath of office as the Speaker of the 117th Congress after being re-elected at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Sunday, January. 3, 2021. (Erin Scott/Pool via AP)

Nancy Pelosi re-elected as Speaker of US House of Representatives

Following the election of the House Speaker, Pelosi administered the oath to the rest of the members of the House

4 Jan 2021 11:47 AM IST

An illustration picture taken on November 19, 2020, shows a vial with Covid-19 Vaccine sticker, a syringe and an earth globe. (AFP)

Vaccine makers call approval a giant leap

SII has stockpiled around 5 crore dosages of the vaccine and aims to produce up to 10 crore per month by March next year

4 Jan 2021 11:22 AM IST

Rescue operation carried out by NDRF personnel after the complex roof of a crematorium collapsed due to heavy rain, at Muradnagar in Ghaziabad, Sunday, Jan. 03, 2021.(PTI)

24 dead, 17 injured in roof collapse at Ghaziabad cremation ground

Adityanath announced Rs 2 lakh as financial relief for the families of each man killed

4 Jan 2021 11:08 AM IST

GST collections in July fall 14% due to COVID lockdown. (Photo-ANI)

Government launches crackdown on 7,000 GST evaders, 187 arrested

The government netted a record GST collection of Rs 1.15 lakh crore in December 2020, helped by the action against tax...

3 Jan 2021 9:38 PM IST

India has authorised the emergency use of two coronavirus vaccines developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University and by local pharmaceutical firm Bharat Biotech, the countrys drug regulator said Sunday. (Representational Image: PTI)

DCGI approves two Covid-19 vaccines for emergency use

The approval is expected to kick off one of the world's biggest vaccination drives in coming days in the country of 1.3...

3 Jan 2021 11:54 AM IST

A medic demonstrates the administration of COVAXIN, COVID-19 vaccine, on a health worker during a dry run, in Srinagar, Saturday, January 02, 2021. (PTI Photo)

Bharat Biotech recruits 23k volunteers for COVID-19 vaccine trials

Covaxin has been evaluated in approximately 1,000 subjects in Phase I and Phase II clinical trials

3 Jan 2021 11:50 AM IST