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While children in the northern hemisphere are on their summer holidays, in eastern and southern Africa, an estimated 40 percent of school-age children are currently out of school. (Michael Loccisano/Getty Images/AFP)

'This can't go on': UN calls for COVID-closed schools to reopen ASAP

Schools should be the last to close and the first to reopen, said James Elder, spokesman for the UN Children's Fund

28 July 2021 11:08 AM IST

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

Stage set for Jaishankar, Blinken talks

The visit is likely to be watched closely by both China and India's time-tested friend Russia

28 July 2021 10:30 AM IST

Beneficiaries wait in queues to receive COVID-19 vaccine dose, at a government vaccination centre in Mirzapur. (Photo: PTI)

India adds 43,645 COVID-19 cases, 640 deaths

The national COVID-19 recovery rate has improved to 97.39 per cent

28 July 2021 10:29 AM IST

Modi later said the Congress was not allowing Parliament to run and he asked his party members to expose this behaviour of the Opposition parties in front of the media and the public. LSTV/PTI

Pegasus row: Opposition stalls Parliament for sixth day

Seeks debate on snooping, farm law, Assam

28 July 2021 10:27 AM IST

Commuters wade through a waterlogged Ring Road in New Delhi, Tuesday, July 27, 2021. (PTI /Ravi Choudhary)

Orange alert for 'moderate to heavy' rain in Delhi

The monsoon, which arrived in Delhi on July 13 making it the most-delayed in 19 years, is now drenching Delhi, flooding...

28 July 2021 10:25 AM IST

Himanta biswa Sarma, Assam education minister

Will not concede an inch of Assam land: Sarma

Sarma regrets that LMGs fired relentlessly for 30 minutes that targeted own countrymen

28 July 2021 10:25 AM IST

PV Sindhu. (Photo: Official Olympic website)

Sindhu beat Cheung in straight games, enter pre-quarterfinals

Sindhu beat Cheung in straight games, enter pre-quarterfinals

28 July 2021 9:12 AM IST

Opposing the decision of the Odisha government to relocate the war-horse replica from Master Canteen Square to Raj Bhawan Square, Opposition BJP and Congress had staged demonstrations near the iconic sculpture. PTI

Odisha decides not to shift Konark horse

Last month, the Bhubaneswar Smart City Limited proposed relocation of the statue which symbolises the might of ancient...

28 July 2021 8:38 AM IST

Archer Tarundeep Rai at the Tokyo Olympics 2020. (Photo: Olmypics.com)

Tokyo Olympics: Archer Tarundeep beats Hunbin, moves into round of 16

Tarundeep defeated Hunbin 6-4 to march into the round of 16

28 July 2021 8:37 AM IST

Police personnel during a clash at Assam-Mizoram border at Lailapur in Cachar district, Monday, July 26, 2021. 6 police personnel died and many were injured. (PTI Photo)

Assam-Mizo dispute hangs fire for decades

Mizoram was a district of Assam before it was carved out as a separate union territory in 1971 after years of insurgency

28 July 2021 8:35 AM IST

Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, second right, gestures towards U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, second left, and Secretary of Defence Mark Esper, left, with Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, right, standing beside him, ahead of their meeting at Hyderabad House in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2020.(AP)

Rajnath to attend SCO meet at Tajikistan today

All eyes will be on whether Singh will meet his Chinese counterpart when armies of both countries are involved in a...

28 July 2021 8:32 AM IST

The counsel said the material relief by the police against Parra was the sum and substance of the NIA charge sheet filed in a Jammu court from where he has already been granted bail. (Twitter)

Mehbooba Mufti's aide Waheed Parra denied bail after charged with...

The court cited prima facie' terror charges against Parra appearing to be true at this stage' as the reason for denying...

28 July 2021 7:15 AM IST