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Kashmiri human rights activist Khurram Parvez (Facebook)

UNHRC concerned over Jammu & Kashmir situation, calls for release of...

Khurram Parvez has been actively involved in highlighting the human rights situation in the erstwhile state of Jammu and...

2 Dec 2021 12:30 PM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (ANI Photo)

Winter session: PM Modi holds meeting with top ministers to discuss...

On the first day of the session, both the Houses of Parliament passed the Farm Laws Repeal Bill 2021

2 Dec 2021 12:23 PM IST

Kapil Sibal (Twitter)

Without Congress, UPA will be body without soul: Kapil Sibal

Mamata met NCP chief Sharad Pawar in Mumbai and called for fighting the BJP unitedly while taking a veiled swipe at the...

2 Dec 2021 11:51 AM IST

A woman receives the AstraZeneca Covid-19 coronavirus vaccine at Trung Vuong Secondary School in Hanoi. (Photo: AFP)

WHO warns of 'toxic mix' as EU chief mulls mandatory Covid jabs

Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates also recorded their first cases of Omicron, making the Gulf the latest region...

2 Dec 2021 11:10 AM IST

A health worker prepares to inoculates a man with a dose of the Covishield vaccine against the Covid-19 coronavirus. (Photo: AFP)

SII seeks approval for Covishield vaccine as booster dose amid Omicron...

The Serum Institute of India is the first Indian company to seek approval for the COVID-19 booster dose

2 Dec 2021 10:23 AM IST

Arriving passengers leave a terminal at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport in Mumbai. (Photo: PTI)

India records 9,765 new Covid cases, 477 deaths in a span of 24 hours

The active cases comprise 0.29 per cent of the total infections, the lowest since March 2020

2 Dec 2021 10:00 AM IST

A man runs along a street amid smoggy conditions in New Delhi. (Photo: AFP)

Delhi gasps for breath as air quality continues to remain in 'very...

The overall Air Quality Index (AQI) of Delhi on Thursday morning was recorded at 312

2 Dec 2021 9:26 AM IST

Sudha Bharadwaj (Image credit: Live Law)

Court grants bail to Sudha Bharadwaj in Bhima Koregao case

The court granted bail to Sudha but directed that she be produced before the special NIA court that would decide...

2 Dec 2021 8:38 AM IST

NCP President Sharad Pawar, West Bengal CM and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee during a meeting at the formers residence in Mumbai, Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2021. NCP leader Prafull Patel and TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee are also seen. (PTI)

'What UPA? There is no UPA now': Mamata Banerjee

Ms Banerjee's barbs were seen as aimed at the Congress which has reportedly strained its ties with the TMC

2 Dec 2021 8:28 AM IST

A medic administers a dose of Covid-19 vaccine to a beneficiary at a government vaccination centre in Bengaluru. (Photo: PTI)

FIR against employer if staff doesn't get 2nd jab, warns Indore...

Manish Singh said FIR may be filed against employers who henceforth allowed employees to attend the office without...

2 Dec 2021 7:06 AM IST

People get inoculated with the dose of the Covaxin Covid-19 coronavirus vaccine at a temporary vaccination camp inside a school in Mumbai. (Indranil MUKHERJEE / AFP)

Patralekha Chatterjee | The Greek alphabet is still roiling our lives

Omicron is the fifth such VOC, and the first since the Delta (B.1.617) variant which ravaged so many countries

2 Dec 2021 2:49 AM IST

Cover Image of the book Naoroji: Pioneer of Indian Nationalism. (Twitter)

Kamaladevi Prize goes to historian Dinyar Patel

He has won it for the biography titled Naoroji: Pioneer of Indian Nationalism published by Harvard University Press

2 Dec 2021 2:31 AM IST