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New Zealand has been widely praised for its handling of the pandemic, with just 25 deaths from 1,927 confirmed virus cases in a population of five million. (Representational Image/AFP)

New Zealand records first local virus case in six months

The country will move into a snap three-day lockdown, as authorities suspect presence of Delta variant

17 Aug 2021 12:23 PM IST

Earlier, the Ministry of External Affairs informed that the Indian Ambassador in Kabul and his Indian staff will move to India immediately, in view of prevailing circumstances in the war-torn country. (MEA picture)

IAF aircraft carrying 120 Indian officials lands in Gujarat's Jamnagar

Earlier on Sunday, an Air India flight AI244 carrying 129 passengers had arrived in Delhi from Kabul

17 Aug 2021 11:59 AM IST

Passengers travel in a suburban train after the government allowed fully vaccinated people against the Covid-19 coronavirus of all ages to travel in local trains in Mumbai on August 15, 2021. (Photo by Indranil MUKHERJEE / AFP)

India records 25,166 new COVID-19 cases, 437 deaths

The active cases have declined to 3,69,846, the lowest in 146 days

17 Aug 2021 11:19 AM IST

Security beefed up outside the Afghanistan Embassy by Delhi Police, in New Delhi, Monday, August 16, 2021. (PTI/ Manvender Vashist)

Will ensure safety of Indians in Afghanistan: MEA

Some of the Indian nationals who had been staying and working in Afghanistan on projects or in companies are yet to be...

17 Aug 2021 7:29 AM IST

Those parties for whom Indians voted but are not part of government are treated with disdain, as if their voters are irrelevant. Representational Image. (AP)

Aakar Patel | What India will we leave for future generations? Some...

The people are useful for the State as they give it legitimacy, but they are also seen as a nuisance that gets in the...

17 Aug 2021 2:52 AM IST

Afghans gather outside a restaurant, worrying about the current situation in their country, at Lajpat Nagar in New Delhi, Monday, Aug 16, 2021. (PTI/Kamal Kishore)

Afghans with ties to India fear for their safety

There are many Afghan nationals who over the decades have studied in India, held positions in past Afghan governments

17 Aug 2021 2:47 AM IST

Conrad Sangma, Chief minister of Meghalaya. (Photo:PTI)

Shillong tense, petrol bombs hurled at CM Conrad's house

Mobile internet services have also been snapped in several parts of the state after reports of vandalism and arson

17 Aug 2021 2:21 AM IST

Chief Justice Ramanas strictures on police methods and condemnation of Section 124A of the Indian Penal Code on sedition apply to all three nations, not just India, where the tragedy of the late Father Stan Swamy heaped shame and disgrace on the authorities. (Twitter)

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Colonial era tools don't belong in a democracy

Justice delayed is justice denied, especially in district and subordinate courts where 33.3 million cases were pending...

17 Aug 2021 2:06 AM IST

As with the Phuket Sandbox programme, the Samui Plus programme has targeted tourists from low and medium-risk Covid countries. - By Arrangement

Lekha Shankar | The new Samui Plus' programme in Thailand

The Phuket Sandbox and Samui Plus programmes are pioneering projects, being closely watched by other countries in the...

16 Aug 2021 12:46 PM IST

Taliban fighters take control of Afghan presidential palace after the Afghan President Ashraf Ghani fled the country, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Aug. 15, 2021. (AP)

Taliban sweep into Afghan capital after government collapses

Taliban official said the group would announce from the palace the restoration of the 'Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan'

16 Aug 2021 11:51 AM IST

A health worker inoculates a woman with a dose of the Covishield vaccine against the Covid-19 coronavirus during a vaccination drive in Hyderabad. (AFP)

India's active caseload declines to 3,81,947, the lowest in last 145...

The country reported 32,937 fresh infections on Monday, and 417 new fatalities, mostly from Maharashtra (130) and Kerala...

16 Aug 2021 11:38 AM IST

While speaking at the main ID function in Srinagars Sher-i-Kashmir Cricket Stadium, J&K Lieutenant Governor, Manoj Sinha, said that the jungle raj in the erstwhile state ended on the eve of 2020 and the grassroots level democracy was strengthened in the UT through the conduct of violence-free district development council (DDC) elections. DC Image

Burhan Wani's father hoists tricolour at a school in J&K's Tral

For the first time in many years, the Internet and mobile phone services remained unaffected on ID in J&K

16 Aug 2021 9:16 AM IST