India on Friday said that Afghan citizens being evacuated and brought to India from Afghanistan can arrive in the country only on a six-month visa and that the government will ‘take it from there.’ ‘That’s the current plan for six months. This is an evolving situation. Making long-term plans hasRead More

New Delhi | Continuing with the alarming surge in new COVID cases, Kerala on Friday reported 32,801 fresh infections further increasing the test positivity rate to 19.22 per cent. With the recent spike in cases, the total active cases in the state now stand at 1,95,254, the highest in India.Read More

New Delhi: India on Friday (August 27) chaired Environment Ministerial meet 2021 and called for collective global actions against the environment and climate challenge, a press release said. “India stressed the need for taking concrete collective global actions against the environment and climate challenge, guided by equity, national priorities andRead More

TORONTO — Health Canada has authorized a second COVID-19 vaccine for use in older children. The agency said Friday that it considers Moderna’s vaccine to be “safe and effective at preventing COVID-19” in children between the ages of 12 and 17. Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine was approved for the same ageRead More

Air Pollution Linked To Heart Attacks Air Pollution Linked To Heart Attacks Even though there is no doubt that there is a clear link between air pollution and various health conditions, including cardiovascular diseases, a new study represented at ESC Congress 2021 identified that exposure to pollutants may trigger heartRead More

New Delhi: Apple could enter into the automotive space as soon as 2021, according to a prediction by Nobel Prize winner Akira Yoshino, an honorary fellow at Japanese chemical manufacturing company Asahi Kasei. Yoshino, the pioneer behind lithium-Ion batteries, made his prediction in a recent interview with Reuters. He wonRead More

Actor Taapsee Pannu and singer Sona Mohapatra have expressed shock at Chattisgarh High Court’s ruling in a marital rape case. The HC discharged a 37-year-old man in a rape case filed against him by his wife after observing that sexual intercourse or any sexual act with a legally wedded wifeRead More

India will decide on its engagement with the new regime in Afghanistan after taking into account whether it will be born out of an inclusive and broad-based power-sharing arrangement or solely run by the Taliban, the government told the leaders of the political parties on Thursday. New Delhi’s ‘top-most priority’Read More

Tokyo: Indian paddler Bhavinaben Patel progressed to the Round of 16 in the women’s singles Class 4 table tennis event with a hard-fought 3-1 victory over Great Britain’s Megan Shackleton at the Tokyo Paralympics here on Thursday. The 34-year-old Indian dispatched Shackleton, the world no. 9, 11-7 9-11 17-15 13-11Read More

Dublin: French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday said that the situation has seriously deteriorated near the Kabul airport after several explosions happened in the last hours. While addressing the media, Macron said we are facing an extremely tense situation that makes us coordinate obviously with our American allies and callRead More