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Aizawl: Mizoram on Thursday reported 207 new COVID-19 cases, pushing the state's tally to 11,143, an official said.At least 1,963 samples were tested in the last 24 hours, and the positivity rate was at 10.54 per cent, the PTI...

New Delhi: More than 1.84 crore COVID-19 vaccine doses are still available with states and UTs and they will receive over 11 lakh doses within the next three days, the Union Health Ministry said on Thursday.The Centre has so...

Moscow: A group of Chinese parents filed lawsuits at a court in the Russian city of Krasnoyarsk, demanding the return of children born in Russia by surrogate mothers, lawyer Igor Trunov told Sputnik on Thursday."Today, in the interest of...

Moscow: Russian observers have not registered any significant violations in the Syrian presidential election that could affect vote legitimacy, Leonid Slutsky, the head of the Russian lower chamber's international affairs committee, said on Thursday.Earlier in the day, EU foreign...

Beijing: Washington neither cares about real facts regarding the origins of the coronavirus nor is it interested in conducting serious scientific research of the matter, as the authorities simply seek to use the pandemic for political manipulation and shifting...

New Delhi: The Facebook-owned WhatsApp has filed a lawsuit in the Delhi High Court against the government's new digital rules that take effect today, saying these would compel it to break privacy protections to users.The WhatsApp filed its petition...

United Nations: The Taliban must immediately stop its undeclared offensive against civilians and civilian structures in Afghanistan, US Acting Alternate Representative for Special Political Affairs to the United Nations Jeffrey DeLaurentis said during a UN Security Council meeting.“The Taliban,...

Washington: President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin are unlikely to accomplish much of anything at their summit in Geneva primarily because White House advisers are bound to undermine the talks to ensure relations remain tense, former US...

Washington: The United States will reach on Tuesday its target of fully vaccinating 50 percent of America’s adult population against the coronavirus and will aim to hit the next milestone of 70 percent before its Independence Day anniversary on...

Prague: Czech Health Minister Petr Arenberger stepped down on Tuesday over mounting criticism in the media, becoming the fourth health chief to quit since the start of the pandemic."I called the premier in Brussels in the morning to tell...