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New Delhi: The COVID-19 situation in the country following the second wave is improving with the virus transmission being “very low right now”, the Central government said on Tuesday. The government, however, sounded caution by saying that…

A Mizoram man died at the age of 76 due to complications arising from diabetes and high blood pressure. Nothing worthy of headlines there. But hang on, Ziona Chana is not any common man. He was believed to head the world’s largest family.…

New Delhi: Reassuring parents who are worried that children will be affected more by a third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, a Lancet report says that there is no substantial evidence to suggest such a possibility. According to the Lancet…

Petrol had already crossed the ‘milestone’. Now it’s the turn of diesel to hit a ‘century’. For the first time in India, the price of diesel crossed Rs 100 per litre on Saturday. It's at Rajasthan’s Ganganagar that diesel price soared to…

New Delhi: Taxpayers will have to register their digital signature certificate (DSC) once again on the newly-launched Income Tax e-filing portal -- https://www.incometax.gov.in. According to the Income Tax department, this has been because…

New Delhi: Monsoon has set in almost half of India six days ahead of schedule, India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Thursday. According to IMD’s Kuldeep Shrivastava, the southwest monsoon has already advanced into parts of…

A month after taking oath, Himanta Biswa Sarma has issued an impassioned yet controversial plea. The Assam chief minister on Thursday appealed to the state’s minority community to adopt a “decent family planning policy” so that population…

A wedding invitation has generated a lot of buzz because of the names of bride and groom. The card, published in ‘Jana Sakthi’, the Tamil mouth piece of Communist Party of India (CPI), mentions that P Mamata Banerjee will be getting…

Bhubaneswar: The  Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) under the Health Ministry has recommended rational use of HRCT imaging (CT Scan) for seeing the extent and nature of lung involvement in COVID-infected children below 18 years…

Kolkata: In a daring encounter, the Special Task Force (STF) of West Bengal Police on Wednesday gunned down two notorious gangsters from Punjab who were hiding in a rented apartment at a multi-storeyed residential complex in New Town area…