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PM Narendra Modi. (PTI)World
Modi and Mauritius PM jointly inaugurate new Supreme Court building at...

'India's development partnerships reflect the development priorities of our partner nations,' Modi said while addressing...

30 July 2020 5:06 PM IST

The woman, who is a Singapore citizen, had arrived in Singapore from India on July 17. (Representational Image: AFP)World
India-returned woman tests positive for coronavirus in Singapore

Including four imported cases reported today, Singapore has a total of 51,809 coronavirus recorded till date

30 July 2020 4:23 PM IST

Ambulance officers transfer a resident from the Epping Gardens aged care facility in the Melbourne suburb of Epping as the city battles fresh outbreaks of the COVID-19 coronavirus. (AFP)World
Australia's elder-care homes most vulnerable amid virus resurgence

Government has deployed disaster-relief teams to elderly-care centres and extended Melbourne's lockdown measures to...

30 July 2020 3:01 PM IST

US Senator Chuck Grassley. (AFP)World
China, India got richer but refused to take on more responsibilities:...

The senator also applauded US President Donald Trump for taking on this 'imbalance' to make the World Trade Organization...

30 July 2020 2:10 PM IST

Riot police secure a shopping mall after prostesters gathered to mark one year since a group of white-clad men attacked pro-democracy protesters who were returning home from protests at the nearby Yuen Long train station, in Hong Kong. (AFP)World
Hong Kong police help #HKIndependence trend on Twitter by accident

Hong Kong's Twitter warriors were quick to pounce, many of them mocking the city's police force for helping to make the...

30 July 2020 1:50 PM IST

Police block a road during protests near the Seattle Police East Precinct on July 26, 2020 in Seattle. (AFP)World
Federal agents ordered to pull back from Portland

US President Trump sent agents to Portland earlier this month as protests against racial injustice increasingly targeted...

30 July 2020 12:39 PM IST

Sheikh Sagheer showers foam on a cow before washing it at his car service station ahead of the Muslim festival Eid al-Adha or the Festival of Sacrifice, in the Pakistans port city of Karachi. (AFP)World
Pakistanis clean their Eid animals at car wash

The animals are further sanitised using disinfectants keeping in mind about the pandemic spread

30 July 2020 11:32 AM IST

: Passengers, wearing masks, leave from Chaudhary Charan Singh airport after arriving by a domestic flight following its resumption, during the ongoing nationwide COVID-19 lockdown, in Lucknow. PTI PhotoWorld
145 Indian students stranded in Kyrgyzstan return home in AI special...

All 145 passengers instructed to stay in institutional quarantine for next one week in their hometowns as per central...

30 July 2020 11:06 AM IST

Pedestrians wear face masks in the Kowloon-side Sham Shui Po district of Hong Kong. (AFP)World
4 arrested under Hong Kong security law for online posts

China, in justifying the new law, says issues such as separatism are a national security concern and, as such, fall...

30 July 2020 10:15 AM IST

A group of supporters for plaintiffs celebrate, holding a banner which reads \Overall victory\ outside the Hiroshima district court in Hiroshima, western Japan, Wednesday, July 29, 2020. A court has recognized people exposed to radioactive black rain that fell after the U.S. atomic attack on Hiroshima as atomic bomb survivors, ordering the government to provide the same medical benefits it gives other survivors. (AP)World
Hiroshima: Japanese court recognizes atomic bomb survivors in landmark...

The US dropped the world's first atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, killing 140,000 people and almost...

30 July 2020 9:48 AM IST

Brazilian pediatric doctor Monica Levi, one of the volunteers who received the COVID-19 vaccine, speaks during an interview at the Specialized Clinic in Infectious and Parasitic Diseases and Immunizations (CEDIPI), in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The doctor is one of the 5,000 volunteers participating in Brazil of the phase 3 trials - the last before homologation - of the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine, developed by the University of Oxford together with the British pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca. (AFP)World
Brazil healthcare staff volunteer to test coronavirus vaccines

Brazil is also the first country carrying out Phase 3 trials of Chinese vaccine CoronaVac, developed by pharmaceutical...

30 July 2020 9:11 AM IST

Members of the medical staff treat a patient in the COVID-19 intensive care unit at the United Memorial Medical Center in Houston. (AFP)World
Coronavirus deaths surpass 150,000 in US, nearly a quarter of world's...

The increase of 10,000 deaths in 11 days is the fastest in the United States since early June

29 July 2020 10:03 PM IST

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