India

London: A UK court on Thursday allowed fugitive Nirav Modi’s extradition to India. The diamond merchant is wanted for fraud and money-laundering in the Rs 14,000-crore Punjab National Bank (PNB) scam case. Dismissing Nirav’s mental health…

Bhubaneswar: With more than 25% of the total tuberculosis (TB) patients in the world reported from India, the Central government aims at eradicating the killer disease completely by 2025. Stating this at a continuing medical education…

New Delhi: After almost 11 months of border conflict, China backed the BRICS meet to be hosted by India in 2021 and said that it’s willing to work with India and other member states for more cooperation in various fields. Chinese President…

New Delhi: Active coronavirus cases in India increased by 4,421 in the past 24 hours — a spike of 3% —to cross the 1.5 lakh mark for the first time in 17 days, the Union Health Ministry informed on Monday. This was the steepest overall…

New Delhi: India crossed a significant milestone in its fight against COVID-19 on Friday by recording more than 1 crore vaccine doses being administered to healthcare and frontline workers. India took 34 days to achieve the landmark feat,…

New York: The United Nations (UN) expressed its gratitude to India for gifting 200,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses for its peacekeepers. “We are extremely grateful for this donation announced by the Indian delegation. The distribution will be…

New Delhi: Union Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas & Steel Dharmendra Pradhan on Thursday said with the pilot project of running 50 buses in Delhi on hydrogen-CNG fuel showing encouraging results, the government sees hydrogen as the…

New Delhi: India averted a war with China in August last year. The countries were on the brink. “In the nine-month-long stand-off with China in Eastern Ladakh, there have been many flare-ups but India and China came close to war on August…

New Delhi: The Union Ministry of Civil Aviation has issued fresh guidelines for international travellers arriving in India. These guidelines, issued in consultation with Ministry of Health and Family Welfare in the context of spread of…

New Delhi: India will increase the number of its COVID-19 vaccination sites by up to five times after administering nearly 9 million shots in a month, a government official was quoted as saying by NDTV on Tuesday. Although India claims to…