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Virar, Maharashtra: Fourteen coronavirus patients who were in the ICU have died in a fire at a hospital in Maharashtra's Virar, about 70 km from state capital Mumbai, the NDTV reported.The fire broke out at around 3 am in...

Aizawl: Mizoram Health Minister Dr. R. Lalthangliana Thursday said the state government is ramping up facilities to deal with the second wave of the pandemic.The health minister on Thursday convened a meeting with officials, churches, doctors and community leaders...

New Delhi: Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Thursday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the new COVID-19 vaccine policy, terming it as arbitrary and discriminatory and urged him to intervene immediately to reverse it, the PTI reported.In a...

Moscow: US President Joe Biden is set to formally recognize the Ottoman Empire's genocide against the Armenian people in the early 20th century, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported citing US officials.In March, the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee...

Prague: Members of the upper house of the Czech parliament, the Senate, at their meeting on Wednesday evening, called on the government to terminate the treaty on friendly relations and cooperation with Russia, Czech TV reported.The senators in the...

Moscow: The Communists of Russia political party has asked the United Nations and UNESCO to declare monuments to the USSR founder Vladimir Ulyanov (Lenin) as the world cultural heritage, the head of the party's Central Committee Maxim Suraykin told...

New Delhi: The Indian Air Force (IAF) on Wednesday said the fifth batch of the Rafale aircraft arrived in India after flying a distance of almost 8,000 km from France.The IAF did not disclose the number of aircraft that...

Washington: The United States has imposed sanctions on two state-owned Burmese companies in an attempt to deprive Myanmar's military leaders of a major source of income, the Treasury Department Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) said on Wednesday."The following...

Bengaluru: A new study from the Centre for Neuroscience (CNS) at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) has explored how well deep neural networks compare to the human brain when it comes to visual perception.Deep neural networks are machine...

Amritsar: The BSF has sought registration of an FIR against an intruder from Pakistan that happens to be a pigeon.The Punjab Police are seeking legal opinion on this, the PTI reported.The pigeon perched itself on the shoulder of a...