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Uttarakhand Tourism Minister Satpal Maharajs wife, Amrita Rawat tests positive for Covid. (Photo- Twitter)

Uttarakhand minister Satpal Maharaj's wife tests positive for Covid19

The minister and the rest of the family have been home quarantined at their residence in the city

31 May 2020 10:54 AM IST

A SpaceX Falcon 9, with NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Robert Behnken in the Dragon crew capsule, lifts off from Pad 39-A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Saturday, May 30, 2020. (AP)

SpaceX sends two NASA astronauts to ISS in historic mission

Elon Musk's SpaceX now becomes the first commercial company to launch a rocket carrying humans into orbit

31 May 2020 10:32 AM IST

Chandrabali Datta, who was born in Kolkata, works in the Clinical Biomanufacturing Facility at the universitys Jenner Institute.

To be a part of Oxford University's Covid19 vaccine project is a...

The 34-year-old's role as a Quality Assurance Manager means to ensure compliance are met before the vaccine could...

31 May 2020 10:04 AM IST

An Afghan security personnel investigates a damaged vehicle carrying employees of Khurshid TV along a roadside, at the site of a bomb blast in Kabul on May 30,2020. (AFP)

Islamic State kills Afghan journalist, technician in bus blast

Taliban and other Islamist insurgents have repeatedly targeted Afghan journalists, killing 15 in 2018, the worst year...

31 May 2020 10:03 AM IST

U.S. President Donald Trump waves walking off Marine One. (AFP)

Trump wants India to join G7 summit

The US postponed the "outdated" Group of Seven summit that planned to be held in June at the White House

31 May 2020 9:36 AM IST

High tension power lines and wind turbines at the San Gorgonio. Global energy leaders call for greater investment in clean electricity systems amid Covid-19 crisis. (AFP Photo)

Global energy leaders call for greater investment in electricity...

International Energy Agency recognised importance of the electricity sector in response to the pandemic to keep...

31 May 2020 9:32 AM IST

Iranian fuel reaches Venezuelan stations as prices set to rise. (AFP Photo)

Iranian fuel reaches Venezuelan stations as prices set to rise

Washington has warned governments, seaports, shipping firms and insurers that they could face sanctions if they aid the...

31 May 2020 9:13 AM IST

Chinas May factory activity expands. (AFP Photo)

China's factory activity expands, but weak orders signal bumpy...

Export orders are still contracting at the fastest pace in years, with a sub-index standing at 35.3 in May, well below...

31 May 2020 9:00 AM IST

A protester poses for photos next to a burning police vehicle in Los Angeles. (AP)

Protests over Minneapolis death rage on amid political finger-pointing

Officials blame a tightly controlled group of outsiders, including white supremacists and drug cartel members, for...

31 May 2020 8:35 AM IST

How many women need not state their purpose before leaving the homestead, even to go to the park, especially to go to the park because it is a discretionary destination? AFP Photo

Sucheta Dasgupta | The almost-stigma' of not breaking quarantine

Being quarantined is, at its very benign, a social fact' in the life of the Bharatiya aurat

31 May 2020 12:30 AM IST

PM Narendra Modi (PTI)

Narendra Modi's letters to 'Mother India' to come out as a book in...

Modi had developed a habit of writing a letter to Jagat Janani' every night before going to bed, as per the publisher.

30 May 2020 10:41 PM IST

Defence minister Rajnath Singh (Photo: PTI)

This is not India of 1962: Rajnath Singh's stern message to China

Singh underlined that there was no need for the United States to meditate.

30 May 2020 8:47 PM IST