India

New Delhi: India currently has 1% of the total volume of vehicles around the world, but accounts for as much as 11 per cent of global road accidents, according to the World Bank. There are 4.5 lakh road crashes in the country per year, in…

New Delhi: Amid the raging controversy over international celebrities voicing support for the farmers’ protests in India, social media is again abuzz about an advertisement that was reportedly aired at Super Bowl 2021, the American National…

Guwahati: Prime Minister Narendra Modi made serious allegations against some ‘foreign powers’ on Sunday. “People who are conspiring to defame India have stooped so low that they are not even sparing Indian tea,” Modi said during his…

New Delhi: A total of 78 people succumbed to the novel coronavirus in India during the last 24 hours. It’s the lowest number of daily COVID deaths since May 1 last year. According to data provided by the Union Health and Family Welfare…

New Delhi: India has scaled another global peak in its fight against COVID-19 by becoming the third topmost country in terms of the number of vaccine doses administered, the Health and Family Welfare Ministry said on Sunday. Only the USA…

New Delhi: Serum Institute of India (SII) got the approval to conduct Phase 2 and 3 clinical trials for Novavax’s COVID-19 vaccine candidate in the country. The green signal came from Subject Expert Committee (SEC) of India’s central drug…

New Delhi: Come April 1, PayPal will wind down its domestic payments business in India, the company said in a statement on Friday. The California-based PayPal will instead focus on its cross-border payments business, which means global…

New Delhi: Nearly 4.5 million (44,49,552) beneficiaries have received COVID-19 vaccines in just 19 days since the countrywide vaccination drive was launched on January 16. These include 2,11,346 beneficiaries in Odisha. According to the…

New Delhi: Hours after blocking nearly 250 Twitter accounts in India for spreading hate, the microblogging website restored the accounts. The decision to restore the accounts was taken after a meeting with the officials Ministry of…

Berlin: United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said that vaccine production capacity of India is the “best asset” the world has today. “I know that in India there is a very high level of production of Indian developed…