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People, some wearing masks, walk along a path in Wellington, New Zealand Thursday, Aug. 19, 2021. (Mark Mitchell/New Zealand Herald via AP)

New Zealand has biggest COVID-19 case day in over a year

The government put the nation into a strict lockdown last week as it tries to stamp out the outbreak, which has grown to...

26 Aug 2021 11:42 AM IST

Finance secretary T. V. Somanathan on Tuesday made the announcement during a meeting. (Photo: Twitter/@FinMinIndia)

Insurance bond could substitute bank guarantee

Bank guarantees are usually asked for while extending a loan and typically require a collateral

26 Aug 2021 11:37 AM IST

Demand for airline fuel surges in India with tourism rebound

Demand for airline fuel surges in India with tourism rebound

India is proving to be a bright spot for jet fuel demand after the delta variant interrupted a recovery in air travel...

26 Aug 2021 11:27 AM IST

Automobile volumes in FY21 pushed the industry back by six years. (File Photo/Representational)

High taxes rile auto-makers

The demand for vehicles is unlikely to revive as buyers are finding it difficult to buy cars and two-wheelers

26 Aug 2021 11:24 AM IST

Health workers inoculate beneficiaries against Covid-19, at a vaccination centre of Nair hospital in Mumbai, Monday, August 23, 2021. (PTI)

COVID-19: India adds 46,164 new cases, 607 deaths

The active cases comprise 1.03 per cent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate was recorded...

26 Aug 2021 11:24 AM IST

This year marks the 25th edition of Ex Malabar, being hosted by USN in the Western Pacific. (Photo: Twitter/@PRODefNgp)

India set to participate in Naval Exercise Malabar 21 with Quad...

Malabar series of maritime exercises commenced in 1992 as an IN-USN Exercise

26 Aug 2021 11:09 AM IST

In this image provided by the Department of Defense, two paratroopers assigned to the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division conduct security while a C-130 Hercules takes off during a evacuation operation in Kabul, Aug. 25, 2021. (Department of Defense via AP)

What is the Islamic State threat in Afghanistan?

President Biden said there is 'an acute and growing risk' of an attack at airport by the group's regional chapter -...

26 Aug 2021 10:41 AM IST

All Maharashtra fishermen joint action committee stage a protest Jan Akrosh Mocha at Azad maidan, over various issues across the Mumbai coastal belt region, in Mumbai. (Photo: PTI)

Fishermen protest against plan to shift them from Mumbai's Crawford...

Nearly 1,200 fishermen and representatives of the Koli community staged a protest outside the BMC headquarters

26 Aug 2021 9:07 AM IST

Rane was arrested while touring the state for the BJPs Jan Ashirwad Yatra from Mumbai to Sindhudurg. (Photo: PTI)

Narayan Rane justifies slap' remark against Maharashtra CM Uddhav...

Mr Rane, Union Minister for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, was arrested on Tuesday by Maharashtra Police

26 Aug 2021 7:46 AM IST

Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh said twenty-three ministers and MLAs tested coronavirus positive. (PTI Photo)

Congress to fight 2022 polls in Punjab under Amarinder

The announcement came after four party ministers and three MLAs, who arrived in Dehradun, met Harish Rawat

26 Aug 2021 7:25 AM IST

Now, the cases heard by the Supreme Court have anywhere between two and 30 parties. Who decides who will be unmuted? (PTI)

CBI, ED probe delay in MP, MLA cases irks Supreme Court

Singh, appearing for a PIL petitioner, told the court that while a govt job was barred for a bureaucrat if convicted in...

26 Aug 2021 7:03 AM IST

Babus' equality'? Mid-career course at Mussoorie will lose IAS-only...

Mr Gauba's predecessor P.K. Sinha held the post well beyond his two-year tenure thanks to several extensions

26 Aug 2021 1:58 AM IST