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Facebook also intends to add podcast clips feature going forward that will allow listeners to create and share snippets of podcast episodes. (Photo: PTI)

Facebook's payment system will extend to online retailers in August

Facebook launched its payments system for use across the main site, as well as WhatsApp and Instagram

17 July 2021 4:15 PM IST

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

Punjab Congress meetings: Rawat flies to meet Amarinder, Sidhu calls...

The visit is being seen as an effort to placate Amarinder, who wrote a letter to Congress president Sonia Gandhi on...

17 July 2021 2:57 PM IST

This Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2003 file photo shows a reconstructed Neanderthal skeleton, right, and a modern human skeleton on display at the Museum of Natural History in New York. (AP /Frank Franklin II)

Just 7 per cent of our DNA is unique to modern humans, study shows

Scientists already know that modern people share some DNA with Neanderthals, but different people share different parts...

17 July 2021 2:06 PM IST

Debris of houses and trees surround houses in Schuld, Germany, Friday, July 16, 2021. Two days before the Ahr river went over the banks after strong rain falls causing severals deaths and hundreds of people missing. (AP)

Death toll from Europe floods tops 150 as water recedes

In addition to worst-hit Germany and Belgium, southern parts of the Netherlands also have been hit by heavy flooding

17 July 2021 1:25 PM IST

View of a vial of Indias COVAXIN vaccine against COVID-19. (AFP)

Govt to procure 66 crore more doses of Covishield, Covaxin at revised...

The price of each dose of Covishield amounts to Rs 215.25 and Covaxin Rs 225.75, including taxes

17 July 2021 12:53 PM IST

A security gate is set up near the National Stadium, the main venue for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games, in Tokyo on July 17, 2021. (Yuki IWAMURA / AFP)

First coronavirus case hits Tokyo Olympics Village

Japanese media reported that the person who had tested positive was a foreign national

17 July 2021 11:19 AM IST

A health worker collects swab sample of a child for Covid-19 test, at majestic bus stand in Bengaluru, July 15, 2021. (PTI/Shailendra Bhojak)

India records 38,079 fresh Covid cases, 560 deaths

The active cases have declined to 4,24,025 and comprise 1.36 per cent of the total infections

17 July 2021 10:52 AM IST

England beat Denmark in the semi-finals of the European Football Cup and will now play Italy in the final on Sunday. (Representational Image: AFP)

Farrukh Dhondy | Adieu fair play: Sportsmanship under threat in...

For some viewers in that room, the game had turned into a metaphorical political war

17 July 2021 12:49 AM IST

Population explosion has been a regularly used trope to incite fear and panic in many Third World countries. (Representational Image)

Karan Thapar | Population: Will solution' make our problem worse?

The truth is that India's census data confirms our population growth is slowing

17 July 2021 12:46 AM IST

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

Twitter rolls out captions for voice tweets

Captions only appear on new voice tweets, Twitter told The Verge, so you won't see them on older ones

16 July 2021 4:55 PM IST

Oil prices fell in early trade on Tuesday after weak Japanese industrial production data was enough to jangle trader nerves over a bumpy recovery in fuel demand as coronavirus pandemic restrictions ease. (AFP Photo)

Puri conveys India's concerns over high oil prices to Saudi, UAE

Saudi Arabia is the world's largest exporter of crude oil and India's second-biggest source after Iraq

16 July 2021 3:52 PM IST

The British high commission in India said the carrier strike group (CSG) 2021, led by HMS Queen Elizabeth, has sailed into the Indian Ocean Region after transiting the Suez Canal. (AFP Photo)

UK's carrier strike group enters Indian Ocean, to conduct wargame with...

The warships are expected to visit the South China Sea region as part of the tour

16 July 2021 2:45 PM IST