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Flame-lighting ceremonies were held without spectators across Tokyo on Friday, after the traditional torch relay was scrapped over fears that crowds could spread infections. (AFP Photo)

Paralympic flame arrives in Tokyo as virus surges days before opening

In the past week, multiple Paralympic flames have been transferred from torch to torch at similar scaled-back events...

20 Aug 2021 2:36 PM IST

Tesla CEO Elon Musk. (AFP Photo)

Elon Musk says Tesla's robot will make physical work a 'choice'

Musk, the second richest person in the world according to Forbes, said he believes robots will phase out physical labor...

20 Aug 2021 1:51 PM IST

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern walks to the COVID-19 update press conference in Wellington, New Zealand, Friday, Aug. 20, 2021. (Mark Mitchell Pool photo via AP)

New Zealand extends Delta outbreak lockdown

PM Jacinda Ardern said the initial three-day lockdown, which would have expired overnight Friday, would be extended by...

20 Aug 2021 12:09 PM IST

In May this year, the ruling Communist Party of China approved a relaxation of its strict two-child policy to allow all couples to have up to three children. (Representational image: AP)

China approves three-child policy with sops to encourage couples to...

China permitted all couples to have two children in 2016, scrapping the draconian decades-old one-child policy

20 Aug 2021 11:41 AM IST

Taliban fighters patrol in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Aug. 19, 2021. (AP)

Taliban 'intensifying' search for Afghans who helped US: UN document

The report says the group has 'priority lists' of individuals it wants to arrest

20 Aug 2021 11:17 AM IST

Kamala Harris on Thursday made her first phone call to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to inform him the decision of the Biden Administration to send tens of thousands of doses of life-saving COVID-19 vaccines to India. (Photo: AFP)

Harris' Asia trip carries new urgency after Afghan collapse

A longtime district attorney and former senator, Harris is largely untested in international diplomacy and foreign...

20 Aug 2021 10:56 AM IST

A health worker administers the vaccine for COVID-19 in Mumbai, India, Thursday, Aug. 19, 2021. (AP/Rafiq Maqbool)

COVID-19: India reports 36,571 new infections, active cases lowest in...

A reduction of 524 cases has been recorded in the active COVID-19 caseload in a span of 24 hours

20 Aug 2021 10:51 AM IST

Hoshang Merchant (Image credit: Facebook)

Words of a gay poet, as old as India's Independence, heal

Hoshang Merchant a midnight's child, as old as our independence reflects on the coinciding evolution of the life of a...

20 Aug 2021 10:34 AM IST

Shiite Muslim worshippers gather around the shrine of Imam Abbas during a Muharram procession in Karbala, Iraq, Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2021. Muharram, the first month of the Islamic calendar, is a month of mourning for Shiites in remembrance of the death of Hussein, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, at the Battle of Karbala in present-day Iraq in the 7th century. AP/PTI

Partial Muharram ban in Srinagar; lakhs of mourners attend tazia...

Zuljinah and tazia processions and sham-e-garibaan' rallies were permitted in predominantly Shia areas of Srinagar...

20 Aug 2021 9:52 AM IST

This handout photo courtesy of US Marines Corps shows US Marines assigned to 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit escort evacuees during an evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport, Kabul, Afghanistan, August 18, 2021. (Nicholas GUEVARA / US Marine Corps/ AFP)

IAF may resume evacuation of Indians from Kabul today

Minister S. Jaishankar told the UN Security Council that the terrorist Haqqani Network's activities in Afghanistan were...

20 Aug 2021 7:27 AM IST

Currently China accou-nts for 17 per cent of the worlds specialty chemicals exports, while India accounts for 1-2 per cent. Representational Image. (Twitter)

Specialty Chem firms bullish on exports

Another industry major Ami Organics too is set to tap the primary market

20 Aug 2021 5:00 AM IST

As the Sensex and Nifty-50 traded at an all time high on Wednesday before some profit taking, further profit taking could continue on Friday and may well set a reversal after sharp gains in the first half of August. Representational Image. (Twitter)

US Fed hints at tapering stimulus, markets wobble

After the holiday on Thursday, the Indian market too could see the impact as investors factor in the implications of US...

20 Aug 2021 4:39 AM IST