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A worker checks a monitor inside a COVID-19 facility at Commonwealth Games Village in view of the Omicron cases, in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)

India records 6,563 new Covid cases, active caseload lowest in 572...

The death toll climbed to 4,77,554 with 132 fresh fatalities

20 Dec 2021 10:10 AM IST

Syringes and vials of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine are seen on a work surface during a drive through clinic at St. Lawrence College in Kingston. (Photo: AP)

UK researchers developing new COVID-19 vaccines

The research project will boost the UK's and the world's ability to rapidly develop new vaccines

20 Dec 2021 9:53 AM IST

A worker prepares a bed for Covid patients in Commonwealth Games Village in view of the Omicron cases, in New Delhi, Sunday, Dec. 19, 2021. (PTI Photo/Ravi Choudhary)

Omicron tally crosses 150, as COVID-19 cases surge in Delhi

In Maharashtra, six more persons have tested positive for Omicron, that raised the state's tally of such cases to 54

20 Dec 2021 8:25 AM IST

Security personal patrol after bomb exploded in front of a polling booth during Kolkata Municipal Corporation elections, in Kolkata, Sunday, Dec. 19, 2021. (PTI)

Violence rocks civic elections in Kolkata

209 arrested for clashes; BJP protests, seeks repoll

20 Dec 2021 7:30 AM IST

A file picture of the Mundra International Container Port. (Photo: PTI)

Container shortage eases

The pandemic had hit the manufacturing of containers in different parts of the world, aggravating the shortage

20 Dec 2021 7:25 AM IST

Paytm IPO is scheduled to open on November 8. (Photo: Representational)

IPOs in 2021 beat three-year total

After the Covid 2nd wave, primary market was flooded with IPOs from and more than 40 companies tapped the market in the...

20 Dec 2021 7:23 AM IST

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar with Central Asian counterparts during the third India-Central Asia Dialogue of Foreign Ministers, in New Delhi. (PTI)

India, five Central Asian countries pitch for Afghanistan relief

In a joint statement issued after the dialogue, India and the 5 nations decided to continue providing humanitarian...

20 Dec 2021 7:12 AM IST

A Covid-19 vaccine is administered inside the newly-set up Wembley Stadium vaccination centre at a mass vaccination event in London on December 19, 2021, as the booster rollout accelerates in England. (AFP)

Kishwar Desai | No. 10 parties' raise a ruckus; gender-neutral Brits...

For those of us who grew up in a simpler world, possibly too black and white it is an opportunity to re-learn

20 Dec 2021 2:29 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Goa Governor P S Sreedharan Pillai, Chief Minister Pramod Sawant and others, during a programme organised on the occasion of the 60th Goa Liberation Day, at Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Indoor Stadium in Taleigao, Sunday, Dec. 19, 2021. (PTI)

PM Modi: Patel could have set Goa free sooner

Modi was speaking at an event to celebrate the Goa Liberation Day, observed on December 19 every year

20 Dec 2021 2:10 AM IST

It looks like that the Yogi Adityanath government in Lucknow and the Narendra Modi government in New Delhi were waiting for election time to usher in the goodies, as it were. (AFP)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Will Modi-Yogi shock & awe campaign work...

The spate of inaugurations do not really speak of achievements, but it is a way of hiding the absence of achievements

20 Dec 2021 1:26 AM IST

Sikh devotees walk inside the complex of Golden Temple in Amritsar on December 19, 2021, a day after a man was beaten to death for allegedly trying to commit an act of sacrilege at the holiest shrine of the Sikh faith. (Photo: AFP)

Sacrilege bid at Golden Temple: Case registered against dead accused

The footage shows that the accused entered the Golden Temple around 11 am on Saturday

19 Dec 2021 4:18 PM IST

A BMC health worker collects swab sample of an outstation passenger for COVID-19 test, at Dadar railway station, in Mumbai. (Photo: PTI)

India's Omicron count rises to 145

India's first two cases of the this heavily mutated version of the coronavirus were detected in Karnataka on December 2

19 Dec 2021 3:55 PM IST