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Fishermen returning back to the coast in Visakhapatnam. (Photo: V.Kamalakara Rao/DC)

Heavy rains lash Odisha as Cyclone 'Gulab' set to make landfall in...

IMD issues 'red alert' to Andhra, Odisha coasts

26 Sept 2021 1:20 PM IST

Three militants, assistant sub-inspector of J-K police killed in encounter. (PTI Photo)

Two militants killed in Jammu Kashmir encounter

Among the slain militants is the killer of BJP district president Bari, his father and brother who were shot dead in...

26 Sept 2021 1:14 PM IST

An Afghan man has his photograph taken for facial biometric information as he applies for his passport at the passport office in Kabul. -AFP

Taliban to change Afghan passports, national identity cards

Deputy Minister of information & Culture said that the documents possibly will have the name 'Islamic Emirate of...

26 Sept 2021 12:47 PM IST

AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi (Photo: ANI)

Unease over AIMIM's move to contest UP polls on issue of giving...

There are 82 assembly seats in the state where Muslim voters are in a position to make or botch political fortunes

26 Sept 2021 12:36 PM IST

People walk and drive past election posters of the three candidates for German chancellor , from right, Armin Laschet, Christian Democratic Union (CDU), Annalena Baerbock, German Green party (Die Gruenen) and Olaf Scholz, Social Democratic Party (SPD), at a street in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. Germanys closely fought election on Sunday will set the direction of the European Unions most populous country after 16 years under Angela Merkel, whose party is scrambling to avoid defeat by its center-left rivals after a rollercoaster campaign. (AP)

Germans vote in close election to decide Merkel successor

Merkel has been in power since 2005 but plans to step down after the election, making the vote an era-changing event

26 Sept 2021 12:31 PM IST

Petrol price was hiked by 30 paise per litre and diesel by 25 paise a litre, according to a price notification of state-owned fuel retailers. (Representational Photo:PTI)

Diesel price hiked again, no change in petrol rate

Price of diesel was hiked to Rs 89.07 per litre in Delhi and to Rs 96.68 in Mumbai

26 Sept 2021 12:15 PM IST

All about Alcohol: Goas new museum is dedicated to feni

'All about Alcohol': Goa's new museum is dedicated to feni

The museum's owner and local entrepreneur, Nandan Kudchadkar, asserts that they do not promote the habit of liquor...

26 Sept 2021 11:40 AM IST

Earlier this month, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned that the possibility of a complete economic collapse in Afghanistan was serious. (Representational image: ANI)

Taliban welcomes US measure to allow humanitarian assistance to...

Afghanistan is in complete turmoil and is in a state of chaos after the takeover of the Taliban and is in dire need of...

26 Sept 2021 11:26 AM IST

The government has ordered around 16 million doses of AstraZeneca Plc and Moderna Inc vaccines for this year but as yet only around 4 million of them have arrived. (Bloomberg)

COVID-19 vaccine boosters could mean billions for drugmakers

For Pfizer and Moderna, the boosters could be more profitable than the original doses because they won't come with the...

26 Sept 2021 10:48 AM IST

Twitter also offers captions in Twitter Spaces, its Clubhouse-like social audio rooms. (AFP photo)

Twitter to add Topics to Spaces, but with a limited start

According to The Verge, it's a small addition to start

26 Sept 2021 10:44 AM IST

Maharashtra Tourism Minister Aaditya Thackeray (Twitter)

Maharashtra govt to promote monsoon tourism in Konkan, develop state...

Minister Aaditya Thackeray said the focus was on how to maximise the tourism sector's contribution to the state's GDP

26 Sept 2021 10:34 AM IST

A man receives Covishield COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination center in Mumbai. (Photo: AP)

India records 28,326 new Covid infections, tally totals to over 3.36...

The death toll has climbed to 4,46,918 with 260 daily fatalities

26 Sept 2021 10:15 AM IST