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$People walk past a television screen showing a news broadcast with file footage of a North Korean missile test, at a railway station in Seoul on January 11, 2022, after North Korea fired a \suspected ballistic missile\ into the sea, South Koreas military said, less than a week after Pyongyang reported testing a hypersonic missile. (Anthony WALLACE / AFP)$ World

North Korea fires second suspected missile in less than a week

The early-morning launch came as the UN Security Council met to discuss last week's test of what Pyongyang called a...

11 Jan 2022 10:58 AM IST

A nurse prepares the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine for children for distribution. (Photo: AFP)

Pfizer CEO says Omicron-targeted vaccine to be ready by March

Bourla said Pfizer could be ready to file for U.S. regulatory approval for a redesigned vaccine and launch it as soon as...

11 Jan 2022 10:31 AM IST

People gather at the Juhu beach amid restrictions imposed due to rising COVID-19 cases in Mumbai. (Photo: PTI)

India records over 1.68 Lakh fresh Covid infections, 4,461 Omicron...

An increase of 97,827 cases has been recorded in the active COVID-19 caseload in a span of 24 hours

11 Jan 2022 10:15 AM IST

AIIMS, Delhi Director Randeep Guleria receives the booster dose of COVID-19 vaccine, in New Delhi. (PTI Photo)

Hospitalisations may rise as COVID crisis 'evolving': Government

The health ministry advised retired medical professionals or MBBS students could be roped in for teleconsultation...

11 Jan 2022 7:31 AM IST

Union finance minister, Nirmala Sitharaman. (PTI)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | FM bats on a sticky wicket as Covid...

The major flaw of this government, and it is not that of the finance minister alone, is the refusal to accept that these...

11 Jan 2022 2:33 AM IST

It is accurate to say that India has quite consciously been led to the stage today when communalism has completely infected the nation. (Representational Image/ PTI)

Aakar Patel | Are we ready to believe things are not going well with...

A course can be corrected only if we accept that we are headed in the wrong direction

11 Jan 2022 2:15 AM IST

The disadvantaged are denied a fair shot in a system crowded with specalised coaching classes that begin early in a students life and are exorbitantly priced by the more successful tuition centres. (Representational Image/ DC File)

AA Edit | A NEET solution worked out by the top court

Quota for OBCs in MBBS and MD courses under the all-India quota (15%) seats and the 10% reservation in the EWS

11 Jan 2022 1:00 AM IST

Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh tested positive for COVID-19 on Monday, Jan. 10, 2021. (PTI Photo)

Union defence minister Rajnath Singh tested positive for Covid-19

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and his Karnataka counterpart Basavaraj Bommai and BJP president J.P. Nadda also...

10 Jan 2022 11:05 PM IST

Health workers interact with each other inside the Shehnai Banquet Hall, turned into a COVID-19 care facility, during the third wave in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)

Third wave will have sharp rise in Jan end, but sharp decline in...

IIT Kanpur professor Manindra Agrawal stated that Delhi will report almost 40,000 cases per day at its peak

10 Jan 2022 2:33 PM IST

Workers at Kashi Vishwanath Dham wearing jute slippers sent by PM Modi (ANI)

PM Modi sends 100 pairs of jute footwear for Kashi Vishwanath Dham...

PM recently found out that most people working at Vishwanath Dham had to work barefoot because leather or rubber...

10 Jan 2022 1:18 PM IST

: Farmers stage a demonstration to block Prime Minister Narendra Modis cavalcade, in Ferozepur, Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2022. (PTI Photo)

Security breach: Supreme Court stays ongoing inquiries, proposes to...

The top court was hearing the plea of an organisation seeking thorough investigation into security breach to PM Modi's...

10 Jan 2022 1:00 PM IST

Goa minister Michael Lobo (ANI)

Michael Lobo resigns as Goa minister, quits BJP

Asked whether he will join the Congress, Lobo said he is in talks with other political parties

10 Jan 2022 12:02 PM IST