Former US President Barack Obama on Monday said that people protesting US deserve support and called for political solutions to address their grievances about criminal justice....

In a joint statement, medical professional associations have criticised the handling of the coronavirus pandemic by the Indian government stating that a draconian lockdown, incoherent strategies led to India paying a heavy price. Most importantly, the statement reads, "It is unrealistic to expe...

Rural healthcare facilities in India received 30 per cent fewer cardiac emergencies, the World Health Organisation said in a global survey released on Monday, outlining how the coronavirus pandemic has disrupted prevention and treatment services for non-communicable diseases (NCDs).The survey coveri...

Migrant labourer Brajabandhu Rana, 42, had waited over nine weeks and travelled 1,900km to meet his wife and daughters. It was the last half kilometre that killed him.With just nine days left to complete his 14-day quarantine and go home, the diabetes and hypertension patient - who had had heart sur...

The chief minister's post has been retweeted over 5,800 times and garnered over 21,000 likes so far. Zoramthanga had also shared a short video clip, barely 30 seconds long, wherein villagers can be seen sprinting up a sloping landscape, and carrying baskets full of water bottles and packets of food...

The Odisha government on Monday announced complete shutdown on all Saturdays and Sundays throughout the month of June in 11 out of 30 districts of the state in view of a spike in Covid-19 cases. The fifth phase of the lock down will continue till June 30 with some more relaxations.Chief secretary As...

Airlines have been asked to keep the middle seat vacant if possible from June 3 and, if they can't, to give the passenger occupying the seat a wrap-around gown for protection from the coronavirus."The airlines shall allot the seats in such a manner that the middle seat/seat between two passenge...

Sakhi Mandals, the women self-help groups in Jharkhand, armed with a web app have become the backbone of the state government's effort at making a database of migrant workers who have returned from other states.The database will be used by the state government in skill upgradation, career counsellin...

When the Delhi government is working hard to keep the balance between the Covid spread and the commercial activities, there is a worrying figure which is emerging in the last few days. India Today has deciphered the number of cases and the number of tests done every day, and if the percentage is any...

Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi may soon try his hand at podcasting to counter Prime Minister Narendra Modi's monthly radio broadcast Mann Ki Baat, people familiar with the development said. 'Right now, we are at the planning stage and are discussing the finer points with the experts and ask...

The Congress on Monday expressed grave concern over reports suggesting Chinese intrusion into India territory and asked the government to take the Opposition parties into confidence about the actual position on the ground. Asserting that it would be a matter of grave concern if the reports of Chines...

Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday sought public opinion on whether to keep the state borders open and risk the capital's hospitals getting choked with outstation patients, angering critics who said Delhi's hospitals were for all Indians."People from across the country come to Delhi...

When home minister Amit Shah prodded his police to buy only "swadeshi", he probably didn't realise he needed to define the term.Last week, the Central Police Canteens (CPC) delisted over 1,000 "non-swadeshi" products, which included at least 18 by Dabur and 5 by Usha Internationa...

The Bar Council of India has castigated critics who accuse the Supreme Court of failing to make governments accountable for the migrant workers' sufferings, alleging "a conspiracy to weaken and browbeat the institution" and "defame the government".A statement from the chairman of...

India's monsoon rainfall this season will be 102 per cent of the long-term average, skewed towards above normal, the national weather agency said on Monday, boosting expectations for good crop yields amid farmers' concerns about lockdown-linked cash shortages.The India Meteorological Department (IMD...

Leaders of several Opposition parties on Monday condemned the arrests, during the lockdown, of people who had protested against the new citizenship matrix."There's a need for a united political movement to oppose this government," CPI general secretary D. Raja said during an online news co...

Good rainfall in Rajasthan, other parts of northwest India, and cyclone Nisarga forming over the Arabian Sea will create favourable conditions for the breeding of crop-munching desert locusts along the India-Pakistan border but temporarily stall their movement as well, the Centre's Locust Warning O...

US President Donald Trump denounced "acts of domestic terror" after protests against the death of an unarmed black man in police custody devolved into days of violent race riots across the country....

Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray on Monday held a video-conference with home minister Amit Shah on the state's preparedness for a likely severe cyclonic storm that is expected to make landfall on Wednesday in which at least 20 million people stand to be affected along the Konkan coastlin...

The initial investigation into last week's failed bombing in Pulwama's Ayangund area has revealed the involvement of Mohammad Ismail Alvi, alias Lambu -- a close relative of Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) chief Maulana Masood Azhar and the current head of the Jaish in the Valley -- who also played a key ro...

Indraprastha Gas Ltd (IGL), the firm that retails CNG to automobiles and piped natural gas to household kitchens, on Monday revised CNG price in the national capital and adjoining cities by one rupee per kg....

Delhi has eased restrictions on shops and markets and allowed salons to open, but at the same time put stringent curbs on interstate travel for a week while deciding against opening malls and places of worship, chief minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Monday, aiming to strike a cautious balance and ...

The cabinet on Monday approved the expanded definition of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) and finalised modalities for the Rs 20,000 crore subordinate debt for stressed units, and Rs 50,000 crore fund to boost growth of the sector—moves that will help more companies benefit from a...

A medical examiner on Monday classified George Floyd's death as a homicide, saying his heart stopped as police restrained him and suppressed his neck, in a widely seen video that has sparked protests across the nation. "Decedent experienced a cardiopulmonary arrest while being restrained by law...

An official autopsy released Monday ruled that George Floyd, the African-American man whose death at police hands set off unrest across the United States, died in a homicide involving "neck compression"....

The Delhi High Court on Monday granted relief to the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case convict Naresh Sehrawat by allowing his plea seeking interim suspension of sentence for three months on medical grounds....

Only a handful of devotees were seen queuing up outside prominent places of worship in Kolkata and other parts of West Bengal on Monday, even as the Mamata Banerjee government granted permission for restricted entry to the shrines....

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said that the fight against coronavirus pandemic needs "discipline and harmony" just like the way it is needed in music....

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday set a July 1 date for a nationwide vote on constitutional amendments allowing him to extend his rule until 2036, even as the nation is continuing to record high numbers of new coronavirus cases. Speaking during a live video call with top officials, Putin sa...

US President Donald Trump on Monday urged state governors to crack down on protests over racial inequality that have engulfed the nation's major cities, as officials extended curfews in hopes of preventing a seventh night of looting and vandalism....

Democratic Republic of Congo declared a new Ebola epidemic on Monday in the western city of Mbandaka, more than 1,000 km (620 miles) away from an ongoing outbreak of the same deadly virus in the east. Health Minister Eteni Longondo said four people who died in Mbandaka were confirmed as positive cas...

US President Donald Trump on Monday derided many governors as "weak" and demanded tougher crackdowns on burning and stealing among some demonstrations in the aftermath of another night of violent protests in dozens of American cities. Donald Trump spoke to governors on a video teleconferen...

George Floyd's brother pleaded for peace in the streets on Monday, saying violence is "not going to bring my brother back at all," while US President Donald Trump berated most of the nation's governors as "weak" for not cracking down harder on the lawlessness that has convulsed c...

An autopsy commissioned for George Floyd's family found that he died of asphyxiation due to neck and back compression when a Minneapolis police officer held his knee on Floyd's neck for several minutes and ignored his cries of distress, the family's attorneys said on Monday. The autopsy by a doctor ...

A Bangladesh-based cultural non-profit, that aims to promote art and artists from the region and bring international attention to Bangladesh and the Global South, will take on creative initatives to support the local arts and crafts industry as well as frontline healthcare workers in the country, i...

New York's mayor Bill de Blasio on Monday declared a city curfew from 11:00 pm to 5:00 am, as sometimes violent anti-racism protests roil communities nationwide....

Hong Kong police rejected an application on Monday for an annual candlelight vigil marking the anniversary this week of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, as residents rushed to apply for passports that could allow them to move to the UK. Throngs of people lined up at DHL courier outlets across th...

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Monday called for a national ban on chokeholds and excessive force by police, and said he was concerned violent protests triggered by the death of an unarmed black man in Minneapolis could hinder New York City's reopening. Andrew Cuomo also told a daily briefing tha...

Washington: US President Donald Trump was briefly moved to the White House bunker on the evening of May 29 as protests were being held near the White House against the death of an African-American man in police custody, a media report said on Monday. A senior administration official said the actio...

An autopsy arranged by the US family of George Floyd shows he was suffocated by a policeman, rather than dying from pre-existing heart problems as claimed by the official ruling, their lawyer announced Monday....

New Delhi: The Southwest Monsoon arrived in Kerala on Monday as predicted by the India Meteorological Department bringing heavy rains to several parts in the state and marking the commencement of the four-month long rainfall season in the country. "Southwest Monsoon has set in over Kerala tod...

Assam chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal on Monday took stock of various flood affected areas in Hojai district. The chief minister visited flood affected areas like Hatimura, Dakshin Kenduguri, Nabhanga and Jugijaan village in the district. Due to incessant rains in the last week, the flood waters ...

With an eye on next year's assembly polls, the BJP reconstituted its West Bengal unit on Monday, inducting more than a dozen new faces including turncoats and dropping Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's grandnephew Chandra Bose who opposed the party's stand on CAA and NRC....

Washington : Researchers have found that populations living in higher altitudes, especially 3,000 meters (9,842 feet) above the sea level, significantly report lower levels of coronavirus infections than their lowland counterparts. The Washington Post cited one peer-reviewed study, published in t...

The US has supplied Brazil with 2 million doses of hydroxychloroquine for use against the coronavirus, the two governments said on Sunday, despite medical warnings about risks associated with the anti-malaria drug. The White House released a joint announcement on the drug, whose use has been touted ...

Christo, the Bulgarian-born conceptual artist who turned to epic-scale environmental works in the late 1960s, stringing a giant curtain across a mountain pass in Colorado, wrapping the Pont Neuf in Paris and the Reichstag in Berlin and zigzagging thousands of saffron-curtained gates throughout Centr...

Mass protests against police brutality that have brought thousands of people out of their homes and onto the streets in cities across America are raising the spectre of new coronavirus outbreaks, prompting political leaders, physicians and public health experts to warn that the crowds could cause a ...

London : UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson's sister has been accused of breaking the lockdown rules imposed in the country due to the COVID-19 pandemic, just a week after allegations emerged against his chief adviser Dominic Cumminigs of breaching the restrictions, it was reported. Rachel Johnson h...