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A woman receives the AstraZeneca Covid-19 coronavirus vaccine at Trung Vuong Secondary School in Hanoi. (Photo: AFP)

Chinese mission opposes EU push for COVID-19 origins study

Chinese spokesperson said politicising the study of the origin has created difficulties for countries to fight the...

30 July 2021 10:38 AM IST

A medic holds a vial of Bharat Biotechs covid vaccine, Covaxin. (Photo: AFP)

After suspending EUA request, Brazil now shelves import authorisation...

Bharat Biotech will continue to work diligently with Anvisa, to complete the regulatory approval process for Covaxin

29 July 2021 12:13 PM IST

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

A health worker administers covid vaccine. (Photo: AFP)

Delta variant identified in Nanjing's COVID-19 clusters in China

The recent spike in infections in the city can be attributed to the special location of the outbreak

27 July 2021 1:18 PM IST

North Korea cut the hotlines in June 2020 as cross-border ties soured after a failed second summit in February 2019 between Kim and former U.S. President Donald Trump. (AP file photo)

South, North Korea have restored hotlines as leaders seek to rebuild...

South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un have exchanged multiple letters and agreed to...

27 July 2021 11:25 AM IST

Bharat Biotech on July 23 said it terminated the MoU it entered with Precisa Medicamentos and Envixia Pharmaceuticals LL.C for its COVID-19 vaccine Covaxin for Brazilian market. (Representational image: AFP)

Brazil scraps Covaxin's EUA application after Bharat Biotech...

Termination of the MoU came after the deal with the Brazilian Government for supply of 20 million doses of Covaxin...

27 July 2021 10:28 AM IST

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan. (PTI Photo)

Pak PM's party wins most seats in PoK legislative elections marred by...

PTI has won 23 seats while Pakistan Peoples Party PPP was second with eight seats

26 July 2021 12:07 PM IST

This photo taken on July 15, 2021 shows rescuers working to clear a flooded tunnel after 14 construction workers were trapped in an underground section of a new highway construction site after it collapsed in Zhuhai in Chinas southern Guangdong province. (Photo: AFP)

Six detained over fatal tunnel flooding in south China

The construction site of the Shijingshan tunnel, part of Zhuhai's Xingye expressway, flooded on July 15

25 July 2021 3:34 PM IST

People stand in a guard tower on the perimeter wall of the Urumqi No. 3 Detention Center in Dabancheng in western Chinas Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region on April 23, 2021. Chinas largest detention center is twice the size of Vatican City and has room for at least 10,000 inmates. (AP Photo)

Room for 10,000: Inside China's largest detention center

This site suggests that China still holds and plans to hold vast numbers of Uyghurs and other mostly Muslim minorities...

22 July 2021 2:38 PM IST

In this image taken from KABC pool video, Harvey Weinstein, the 69-year-old convicted rapist and disgraced movie mogul, wears a face mask during an arraignment hearing, Wednesday, July 21, 2021, in Los Angeles. Weinstein pleaded not guilty Wednesday to four counts of rape and seven other sexual assault counts in California. ( AP)

Weinstein pleads not guilty to sexual assaults in California

The pandemic and procedural delays meant that Weinstein's extradition took well over a year

22 July 2021 12:37 PM IST

The NHS staff has 45,300 more workers in 2021 compared to 2020 to fight the pandemic. (Representational image: ANI)

UK health workers to receive 3 per cent pay rise

Earlier this week, the UK lifted almost all COVID-19 restrictions as part of the government's roadmap out of lockdown

22 July 2021 11:02 AM IST

Saudi police women, who are recently deployed to the service, stand alert in front of the Kaaba, the cubic building at the Grand Mosque, during the annual hajj pilgrimage, in Saudi Arabias holy city of Mecca. (AP)

In a first, Saudi female officers allowed to guard Islam's holiest...

This year, 60,000 vaccinated citizens or residents of Saudi Arabia have been allowed to perform the Hajj

22 July 2021 10:15 AM IST