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A medical worker holds a vial of Russias Sputnik V vaccine for Covid-19. (Photo:AP/File)

Russia's single-dose Sputnik Light can be new hope to India's...

The Sputnik Light can become the first single-dose vaccine to be launched in India

2 Jun 2021 10:59 AM IST

Choksi was granted citizenship of Antigua and Barbuda on January 15, 2018. (Photo: ANI)

Mehul Choksi fit to be deported to India, onus lies on Dominican...

Singh said it was not necessary to enter into a treaty with a country for deportation or extradition of...

2 Jun 2021 10:50 AM IST

Of all 2.24 lakh people who have been vaccinated, 447 developed minor complications. Only three persons who were hospitalised have now been discharged. (Photo:PTI)

Daily Covid-19 cases slip to 1.28 lakh, fatalites also drop

ICMR director general Dr Balram Bhargaw, warned states and UTs from rushing to open up restrictions saying unlocking has...

2 Jun 2021 10:43 AM IST

The SARS-CoV-2 virus has RNA as its genetic material. (Photo: Representational/PTI)

Only one of three strains of COVID variant first detected in India now...

The UN health agency said that in order to reflect this updated information, B.1.617 has been delineated

2 Jun 2021 10:05 AM IST

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with Indian External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar at the State Department in Washington, on May 28, 2021. (Saul Loeb/Pool via AP)

Aakar Patel | How Jaishankar put on mat in US over Hindutva and other...

India under Narendra Modi has spent a lot of energy in drafting laws that go after minorities

2 Jun 2021 7:20 AM IST

Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan in Chinas central Hubei province. (AFP file photo)

Sriram Karri | Game score at halftime: China 1, Mankind 0

It looks unlikely with the pace at which Covid is moving around the global field if there can be an equaliser

2 Jun 2021 7:06 AM IST

The Union home ministry late on Monday evening slapped a showcause notice on 1987-batch IAS officer Alapan Bandyopadhyay hours before he retired as the states chief secretary after rejecting a three-month extension. (Photo:PTI)

MHA sends showcause to Bengal's ex-top babu Alapan Bandyopadhyay

Center escalating tensions with Mamata's government

2 Jun 2021 1:23 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi chairs a review meeting regarding the Class XII Board exams of CBSE, through video conferencing, in New Delhi. (Photo:PTI)

CBSE, ISC Class 12 exams are off

The CBSE will now compile Class 12 results as per a well defined objective criteria in a time-bound manner

2 Jun 2021 1:10 AM IST

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi addresses a press conference at Circuit House, in Patiala. PTI photo

Rahul Gandhi attacks PM on GDP, unemployment

Gandhi also posed questions to the central government on mucormycosis or black fungus epidemic

2 Jun 2021 12:28 AM IST

Several strains of bird flu have been found among animals in China but mass outbreaks in humans are rare. (Representational image: AFP file photo)

China confirms first human case of bird flu strain

The NHC said there had been no human cases of H10N3 previously reported in the world

1 Jun 2021 2:19 PM IST

According to AIIMS officials, Pokhriyal was brought to the hospital at 11:30 am on Tuesday morning. (ANI)

Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal admitted to AIIMS due to...

The Union minister had tested positive for COVID-19 on April 21

1 Jun 2021 1:13 PM IST

A staffer of the Supreme Court tested positive for coronavirus. (PTI Photo)

SC stays HC order on levy of IGST on imported oxygen concentrators for...

AG K K Venugopal said the GST council meeting on June 8 would deliberate on granting exemption to essential commodities...

1 Jun 2021 1:00 PM IST