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Members of an organization sanitize a market place during the bi-weekly lockdown in the wake of coronavirus pandemic, in Nadia. (PTI)

India may have over 7 million coronavirus cases by October, become No...

The researchers are now working on refining their model based on advanced machine learning techniques to make long-term...

11 Sept 2020 4:31 PM IST

International salvage experts boarding the fire-stricken tanker, New Diamond, in the Indian Ocean off Sri Lankas eastern coast. - International experts boarded an oil tanker stricken off Sri Lanka to begin salvage operations, the navy said on September 10, as firefighters looked to contain a large oil slick in the Indian Ocean. (Photo: Sri Lanka Navy / AFP)

Salvage team working to stop fuel leak from fire-hit supertanker

Authorities want to avoid damage to the coast line like that suffered by Mauritius after a bulk carrier struck a coral...

11 Sept 2020 4:02 PM IST

Congress leader Ajay Maken accused the Centre on Sunday of conspiring to topple the Congress governments in various state. (PTI Photo)

Ajay Maken moves Supreme Court seeking rehabilitation of slum dwellers...

On August 31, the top court has directed that the slum dwellings will be removed in a phased manner.

11 Sept 2020 3:03 PM IST

Maharashtra government asked all hospitals to use oxygen cylinders to Covid-19 patients due to shortage of ventilators. (AFP Photo)

No restriction be imposed on inter-state movement of medical oxygen:...

Health ministry has reiterated the critical importance of oxygen in hospitals for management of critical COVID-19...

11 Sept 2020 2:41 PM IST

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny (centre). (AP File)

Russian police seek to question Navalny in Germany

Navalny's posioning case has prompted international calls for Russia to carry out a transparent investigation or risk...

11 Sept 2020 2:17 PM IST

Oregon firefighters put out embers in Mill City, Oregon, on September 10, 2020, as they battle the Santiam Fire. - California firefighters battled the states largest ever inferno on September 10, as tens of thousands of people fled blazes up and down the US West Coast and officials warned the death toll could shoot up in coming days.Oregon firefighters put out embers in Mill City, Oregon, on September 10, 2020, as they battle the Santiam Fire. - California firefighters battled the states largest ever inferno on September 10, as tens of thousands of people fled blazes up and down the US West Coast and officials warned the death toll could shoot up in coming days.(AFP)

California teen learns to drive while escaping wildfire

"It's like a video game, Ruben," the teenager recalled his uncle Josh telling him

11 Sept 2020 1:55 PM IST

Narcotics Control Bureau officers take Bollywood actress Rhea Chakraborty, who has been sent in judicial custody till September 22 by a local court, to Byculla women jail, in Mumbai, Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2020. (PTI)

Sushant Singh Rajput death probe: Rhea Chakraborty denied bail in...

Rhea's brother Showik was arrested by the NCB last week. He was denied bail too.

11 Sept 2020 1:26 PM IST

A riot police officer is reached by a petrol bomb during clashes with demonstrators protesting against police brutality in Medellin, Colombia on September 10, 2020. - At least 10 people were killed and hundreds wounded after rioting broke out in the Colombian capital Bogota during protests over the death of a man repeatedly tasered by police, authorities said Thursday. (AFP)

Death toll rises to 10 in Colombia rioting over police killing

Recent video shows attorney Javier Ordonez pleading with police officers, who tasered him at least five times as he lay...

11 Sept 2020 12:38 PM IST

A health worker checks the temperature of people to protect against the coronavirus in Pyongyang, North Korea. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)

North Korea issues shoot-to-kill orders to prevent virus: US

The impoverished country has not confirmed even a single case of coronavirus till now since it first emerged in China,...

11 Sept 2020 12:04 PM IST

Japanese MV Wakashio, a bulk carrier ship that recently ran aground off the southeast coast of Mauritius, can be seen from the coast of Mauritius. The oil spill disaster turned deadly this week when a tugboat leaving the shipwreck collided with a barge and sank, killing at least three sailors, police said Tuesday Sept. 1, 2020. (AP)

Mauritius oil spill ship operator to pay $9.4 million

More than 1,000 tonnes of oil is believed to have leaked from the ship, with the rest siphoned out before it spilled

11 Sept 2020 11:36 AM IST

Flames lick above vehicles on Highway 162 as the Bear Fire burns in Oroville, Calif., on Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2020. The blaze, part of the lightning-sparked North Complex, expanded at a critical rate of spread as winds buffeted the region. (AP)

10 now dead in massive Northern California wildfire

The weeks-old fire was about 50% contained when winds thrashed it into explosive growth on Tuesday

11 Sept 2020 11:01 AM IST

An activist from the Extinction Rebellion climate change group shows a message written on her hand as she is taken away in a police van after being arrested for locking herself to railings outside UKs parliament in central London on September 10, 2020 on the final day of their new series of mass rebellions. - Climate change protesters have put on 10 days of demonstrations, held across the country by activist group Extinction Rebellion. (AFP)

Bare-chested women lock themselves to UK parliament in climate protest

On Saturday, protesters blockaded distribution of two newspapers they accuses of failing to accurately report on climate...

11 Sept 2020 10:19 AM IST