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New Delhi: In one of the steepest increase since daily price revision was started, petrol price on Thursday was hiked by 25 paise per litre and diesel by 30 paise as oil companies raised rates for the third straight...

New Delhi:  Constitutional authorities can do better than to complain and ask for fetters on the media, the Supreme Court said Thursday on the Election Commission's petition complaining about media reports on the Madras High Court telling the poll...

New Delhi: Former Union Minister and one of India's senior most politicians, Ajit Singh, died on Thursday at 82. The Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) chief had been battling Covid, his son Jayant Chaudhary tweeted.pic.twitter.com/xIxgNh839Q— Jayant Chaudhary (@jayantrld) May 6,...

Washington: The Biden administration supports waiving intellectual property protections for COVID-19 vaccines due to the global emergency triggered by the pandemic, US Trade Representative Katherine Tai said Wednesday.“This is a global health crisis, and the extraordinary circumstances of the...

Washington: Two-thirds of Americans support the Biden administration’s decision to pull US troops from Afghanistan by September, a new Charles Koch Institute poll revealed on Wednesday.When civilian respondents were asked whether they support or oppose the US government’s decision...

Guwahati: Assam on Wednesday reported 55 COVID-19 fatalities, the highest single-day deaths, pushing the coronavirus death toll to 1,485, the National Health Mission (NHM) bulletin said.The state also registered 4,826 new COVID-19 cases, which took the tally to 2,72,751,...

Guwahati: The Bharatiya Janata Party has decided to dissolve the Assam unit of its minority cell after no Muslim candidate of its alliance managed to win a seat in the state. The alliance had a comfortable victory -- winning...

The coronavirus wave that plunged India into the world's biggest health crisis has the potential to worsen in the coming weeks, with some research models projecting that the death toll could more than double from current levels, the Bloomberg...

New Delhi: Indian and global medical experts are shocked at the Indian government making money off the sick and dying. Every expert consulted for this report said this has to stop, the NDTV reported.A family that buys an imported...

Moscow: Five people, including a former lawmaker, died in Myanmar's Bago region as the result of a blast caused by a makeshift explosive device, the state-run newspaper Global New Light of Myanmar reported on Wednesday, citing police.According to the...