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In this May 5, 2018 photo, a giant image of the Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, adorns a tower in Doha, Qatar. Saudi Arabia will open its airspace and land border to Qatar in the first step toward ending a years-long diplomatic crisis that deeply divided US defense partners. (AP/Kamran Jebreili)

Saudi Arabia to lift Qatar embargo, easing the Gulf crisis

Kuwait, which had been mediating throughout the dispute, was first to announce the diplomatic breakthrough through its...

5 Jan 2021 11:27 AM IST

Drugs Controller General of India Dr V G Somani along with Principal Director General of Press Information Bureau K S Dhatwalia (R) during a press conference to announce the approval of Oxford COVID-19 vaccine Covishield, manufactured by the Serum Institute, and indigenously developed Covaxin of Bharat Biotech for restricted emergency use in the country, in New Delhi, Sunday, Jan. 03, 2021. (PTI)

Covishield to cost Rs.200 per dose, export banned by government

The government is now in a hurry to start vaccination drive, the schedule for which will be announced soon

5 Jan 2021 7:23 AM IST

It has obviously not been a bad year for China: Hua Chunying, its foreign ministry spokesperson, described 2020 as a fantastic year It has obviously not been a bad year for China: Hua Chunying, its foreign ministry spokesperson, described 2020 as a fantastic year (Image:AP)

Claude Arpi | Will 2021 be China's & Xi's annus horribilis?

Has Beijing succeeded in intimidating India with its brazen info warfare?

5 Jan 2021 4:54 AM IST

Shivraj Singh Chouhan. (Photo- PTi)

Madhy Pradesh: Shivraj declines to get vaccinated now, Congress takes...

The Chief Minister said that priority groups should be vaccinated first and his turn should come later

5 Jan 2021 4:48 AM IST

The farmers have threatened to hold a rally on January 26 if their demand for repeal of the three laws and a legal guarantee on the MSP are not met (Image: PTI)

Government-farmers talks inconclusive as unions firm in seeking repeal...

The next round of discussions to resolve the deadlock over laws enacted in September last year will be held on January 8

5 Jan 2021 4:30 AM IST

Governments own data shows that Indians were earning and eating less in 2018 than they were in 2012 (Image:PTI)

Aakar Patel | Fragile Index shows India is headed into a scary future

India's economic growth has slowed, declining to its lowest nominal level since 1978

5 Jan 2021 4:25 AM IST

External affairs minister S. Jaishankar during a press conference on completion of first 100 days of MEA in the present government in New Delhi on Tuesday. (Photo: PTI)

Jaishankar to undertake 3 day visit to Sri Lanka from Tuesday

With China giving massive economic aid to India's neighbourhood, India has stepped up its economic assistance to its...

5 Jan 2021 4:09 AM IST

The vaccine was tried on hamsters and monkeys and it was found that after administration of both doses, there were no virus particles in upper and lower lungs

Covaxin: Last word on efficacy yet to be heard

Doubts raised over clinical trial mode as to why vaccine given permission without completion of human trials

5 Jan 2021 4:01 AM IST

Chinese billionaire businessman Jack Ma. (Photo- PTI)

Jack Ma's disappearing act fuels speculation about billionaire's...

Ma had blasted China's regulatory system in a speech at a late October forum in Shanghai that put him on a collision...

5 Jan 2021 12:02 AM IST

US President Donald Trump. (AFP)

Trump in phone call presses Georgia's election chief to 'find' votes...

The Trump campaign and several of the president's allies have launched dozens of attempts to challenge the poll results...

4 Jan 2021 12:47 PM IST

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi takes her oath of office as the Speaker of the 117th Congress after being re-elected at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Sunday, January. 3, 2021. (Erin Scott/Pool via AP)

Nancy Pelosi re-elected as Speaker of US House of Representatives

Following the election of the House Speaker, Pelosi administered the oath to the rest of the members of the House

4 Jan 2021 11:47 AM IST

An illustration picture taken on November 19, 2020, shows a vial with Covid-19 Vaccine sticker, a syringe and an earth globe. (AFP)

Vaccine makers call approval a giant leap

SII has stockpiled around 5 crore dosages of the vaccine and aims to produce up to 10 crore per month by March next year

4 Jan 2021 11:22 AM IST