New Delhi After a marathon meeting stretching seven hours on Monday, the Congress Working Committee backed the continuation of Sonia Gandhi as party chief and passed a resolution expressing faith in her leadership after she asked to be relieved in the wake of demands from some leaders for a full-time,Read More

New Delhi Indian Ambassador to the United States Taranjit Singh Sandhu is hopeful of a mini trade deal with the US even in the closing months of the current administration and despite the disappointments of the last few months. Speaking at a webinar, the Indian envoy said the restoration ofRead More

Mumbai The tally of coronavirus cases in Mumbai rose to 1,34,223 on Friday with 1,406 new patients detected, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said. The death toll due to the pandemic in the city rose to 7,353 with 42 new fatalities. On Friday, the financial capital of the country alsoRead More

New Delhi Prime Minister Narendra Modi has described Mahendra Singh Dhoni as the embodiment of a new India where family name does not make one’s destiny in a letter to the two-time World Cup-winning former India captain, who retired from international cricket last week. A thankful Dhoni shared the letterRead More

The proposed Ram Temple at Ayodhya would be constructed out of stone. Iron would not be used to build any part of the building, instead, copper would be used to support the construction of 12,000 pillars—which would be built out of stone. The reason behind using cooper is, that theRead More

New Delhi The government on Tuesday said reassuring signals were emerging in the fight against COVID-19 but this was no time to lower the guard. The Health Ministry today said despite record rise in testing over the past days, average weekly positivity rate of the infection has declined from 10.03Read More

New Delhi India is negotiating with 13 countries, including Australia, Japan and Singapore, to establish separate bilateral air bubble arrangements for international flight operations, Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said on Tuesday. Under a bilateral air bubble pact, airlines of both countries can operate international flights with certain restrictions.Read More

Kolkata Echoing the scientific community’s scepticism over Russia’s COVID-19 vaccine rolled out for emergency use, Nobel laureate Peter Charles Doherty says his “big worry” is there could be refusals for other vaccines if doubts over its safety turn out to be true. Russian President Vladimir Putin last week announced thatRead More

Guwahati Three districts of Assam—Dhemaji, Lakhimpur and Baksa—are still inundated and 11,900 people are reeling under the impact of the flood on Monday, an official bulletin said here. Lakhimpur is the worst-hit with 9,500 people affected by the deluge, while the number of victims in Dhemaji and Baksa is 2,100Read More

New Delhi As COVID cases on Monday reached 26,47,663 the National Expert Group on Vaccine Administration met leading domestic vaccine manufactures Serum Institute of India, Pune; Bharat Biotech, Hyderabad; Zydus Cadila, Ahmedabad; Gennova Biopharmaceuticals, Pune; and Biological E, Hyderabad to take stock of the vaccine development process and chart postRead More