A study by Forest Survey of India showed a gradual increase in forest fires since 2004-05 when there were 8,654 forest points which went up to 30,892 in 2009-10 and further surged to 35,888 in 2017.
Venezuela's deteriorated health system and collapsed economy will make the country one of the toughest places in the region to conduct a coronavirus vaccination campaign, an effort that already trails most of South America, experts said.
Russia has issued an international arrest warrant for one of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny's allies, Leonid Volkov, who is currently based outside Russia, the Interfax news agency reported on Wednesday.
Former ministers Nasimuddin Siddiqui and Ram Achal Rajbhar were arrested on January 19 for allegedly calling names and using indecent language against the daughter and mother-in-law of sitting UP minister Swati Singh in 2016.
Bannon has been charged with duping thousands of investors who believed their money would be used to fulfill Trump's chief campaign promise to build a wall along the southern border.
A Sriwijaya Air plane crashed into the sea on Saturday minutes after taking off from Indonesia's capital Jakarta on a domestic flight with 62 people on board, and their fate was not known.
The alleged scam came to light when the police seized a DC Avanti, a sports-car manufactured by Dilip Chhabria Design Pvt Ltd, in south Mumbai on a tip-off that its registration number was bogus.
Total recoveries have surpassed 94.5 lakhs (94,56,449). The ministry said 76.43 per cent of the new recovered cases are observed to be concentrated in 10 states and UTs.
MSCI Inc will cut seven Chinese firms from some of its global indexes, it said on Tuesday, the third major index publisher to do so following U.S. restrictions on owning the companies.
The Razer Hammerhead True Wireless Pro earbuds succeed the Razer Hammerhead True Wireless earbuds that were launched last year. The new Pro model has a 20Hz to 20KHz frequency response range.
The number of new coronavirus infections in France rose by 17,881 on Saturday, lower than the 22,882 reported on Friday..
An escalating conflict in Ethiopia's restive Tigray region has killed hundreds of people, sources on the government side said, even as the prime minister sought on Monday to reassure the world his nation was not sliding into civil war.
The girl had gone out in the afternoon and when she did not return for some time, her brother went looking for her and found the body in an agriculture field, Superintendent of Police Ram Badan Singh said.
The researchers also found a high prevalence of infection among children who were contacts of other cases around their own age.
Pakistan's drug regulator greenlit the country's first Phase 3 clinical trial for a potential COVID19 vaccine, which is being developed by China's CanSino Biologics (CanSino) and Beijing Institute of Biotechnology.
