India

What makes Confucious Institutes particularly contentious is their proximity to Chinese Communist Party. Critics point out that within classrooms, there is extensive censorship on issues such as Tibet, Taiwan and historical events like the Tiananmen Squar...

In a meeting conducted on Monday, the civic agency directed private hospitals to take additional precautionary measures to make sure that there is a fall in the number of deaths.

The following is a roundup of some of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines for COVID19, the illness caused by the virus.

Health Commissioner Pankaj Kumar Pandey also said that 7,071 people have been discharged after treatment, taking the number of recoveries to 1.48 lakh.

Soon after the incident, personnel of the Special Operation Group (SOG) and District Voluntary Force (DVF) rushed to the scene. Combing operation has been intensified in the area, police said.

The 5-year-old girl named Sanjana attempted a Guinness World Record on Independence Day.

The submissions were made before the special court for PMLA (Prevention of Money Laundering Act) cases, as the ED filed a petition for judicial remand of Suresh, Sarith P S and Sandeep Nair at the end of their custody with the agency. The three were in ED...

The Chief Minister was briefed by the officers about the stringent action initiated against the culprits of D J Halli and KG Halli including invoking the UAP.

Almost a week after the discovery of New Zealand's first locally transmitted coronavirus outbreak in more than three months, its origin remains a mystery.

South Korea warned on Monday of a looming novel coronavirus crisis as new outbreaks flared, including one linked to a church where more than 300 members of the congregation have been infected but hundreds more are reluctant to get tested.

There are 6,76,900 active cases of coronavirus infection in the country.

Acting on a tip-off, an operation was launched in theafternoon in Katlibil forest in Saraibil border outpost area and Belguri forest in Sefanguri police station area of thedistrict, Kokrajhar's Superintendent of Police Rakesh Roushan said.

The liquor shops would be open from 10 am to 7 pm and only 500 tokens shall be issued per day to consumers, a government release said.

The government has taken various measures to further strengthen agriculture, Information Technology, and Biotechnology, industry, production and service sectors which are the core areas of the state's economy.

Russian President Vladimir Putin told Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko in a phone call on Sunday that Moscow stood ready to provide help in accordance with a collective military pact if necessary, the Kremlin said in a statement.

A Japanese bulk carrier struck a coral reef off the Indian Ocean island nation on July 25, spilling about 1,000 tonnes of fuel oil and triggering a state of “environmental emergency”.