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Maria Kolesnikova, an ally of Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, holds a press conference in Minsk. - Unidentified men in black on September 7, 2020 morning grabbed Maria Kolesnikova, a leading Belarusian opposition figure, and pushed her into a minibus, her campaign team reported, citing witnesses. (AFP)

World

Belarus opposition figure 'tore passport to pieces' to avoid expulsion

Kolesnikova, one of the last figures still in the country leading mass protests against President Lukashenko, was...

9 Sept 2020 11:23 AM IST

A medic holds a bag of plasma donated by COVID-19 survivor, at the Plasma Bank in Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital. Use of convalescent plasma therapy in coronavirus-infected patients does not help in reducing mortality or progression to severe COVID-19. (PTI Photo)

Science

Plasma therapy does not really help beat COVID-19, finds ICMR study

The National Task Force for COVID-19, a committee formed by ICMR to respond to the pandemic, has reviewed and approved...

9 Sept 2020 11:13 AM IST

Life

World must be better prepared for next pandemic, says WHO chief

But when the next pandemic comes, the world must be ready more ready than it was this time,' Ghebreyesus told a news...

9 Sept 2020 10:54 AM IST

Fireboats battling to extinguish a fire on the Panamanian-registered crude oil tanker New Diamond, some 60 km off Sri Lankas eastern coast where a fire was reported inside the engine room. - India on September 8 sent fresh supplies of firefighting chemicals to help battle a new blaze on a stricken tanker loaded with a massive cargo of crude oil off Sri Lankas eastern coast. (AFP)

World

Kilometre-long oil slick left by burning oil tanker off Sri Lanka

Firefighters are battling a new blaze that broke out two days after an earlier fire was extinguished, the navy said

9 Sept 2020 10:21 AM IST

Chairman of Indias Reliance Industries Mukesh Ambani (L) looks at rows of produce during a visit to a Reliance Fresh supermarket in Hyderabad. (AFP Photo)

Business

Reliance Retail gets Rs 7,500 crore investment from Silver Lake

The investment values Reliance Retail at Rs 4.21 lakh crore

9 Sept 2020 10:18 AM IST

US Presidential Adviser Jared Kushner (C-L) and US National Security Adviser Robert OBrien (C-R) disembark from the the El Als airliner, which is carrying a US-Israeli delegation to the UAE following a normalisation accord, upon landing on the tarmac on August 31, 2020, in the first-ever commercial flight from Israel to the UAE at the Abu Dhabi airport. - A US-Israeli delegation including White House advisor Jared Kushner took off on a historic first direct commercial flight from Tel Aviv to Abu Dhabi to mark the normalisation of ties between the Jewish state and the UAE. (AFP)

World

Trump to host Israel-UAE deal-signing ceremony on September 15

The White House hope is that more such deals between Israel and the Gulf states will emerge, prompting the Palestinians...

9 Sept 2020 9:47 AM IST

2 arrested after recovery of arms, ammunition from truck on Jammu-Srinagar highway. (Representative Image)

India

Two held with arms and ammunition in truck on Jammu-Srinagar highway

He said the forces recovered one AK rifle with two magazines, M4 US carbine with three magazines and six Chinese pistols...

9 Sept 2020 9:43 AM IST

$Police gather evidence near to forensics tents and evidence markers inside a cordon on Irving Street, following a major stabbing incident in the centre of Birmingham, central England, on September 6, 2020. - British police declared a \major incident\ early on September 6 after multiple people were stabbed in the centre of Englands second city Birmingham. Violence broke out at about 12:30 am (2330 GMT Saturday) in and around the Arcadian Centre, a popular venue filled with restaurants, nightclubs and bars. (AFP)$ World