Agencies

Chennai: England closed in on victory in the first Test by reducing India to 144 for six at lunch on the final day of the series-opener here on Tuesday.Jimmy Anderson (3/8) dismissed Shubman Gill (50), Ajinkya Rahane (0) and...

Hong Kong: A Hong Kong court on Tuesday denied bail for government critic and newspaper publisher Jimmy Lai who is facing charges under a sweeping new national security law.The ruling by the Court of Final Appeal comes amid heavy...

Yangon: Demonstrators against Myanmar's military takeover took to the streets again on Tuesday in defiance of new rules that make their protests illegal, the Associated Press reported.Police were arresting protesters and using water cannons to try to disperse the...

Yangon: A protest against Myanmar's one-week-old military government swelled rapidly on Monday morning as opposition to the coup grew increasingly bold.The protesters at a major downtown Yangon intersection chanted slogans, raised a three-finger salute and carried placards saying Reject...

Aizawl: One more person has tested positive for COVID-19 in Mizoram, taking the tally in the northeastern state to 4,383, a health department official said on Monday.A 22-year-old man in Aizawl was diagnosed with the disease on Sunday, the...

Aizawl: Churches in Mizoram reopened on Sunday after a gap of over 10 months.The government has allowed churches to reopen with only 50 per cent seating capacity and permitted church services only during the daytime on every Saturday and Sunday,...

Bhopal: Probably in a first such verdict in Madhya Pradesh, a court in Bhopal has handed five-year imprisonment to four women students of a private pharmacy college for abetting the suicide of another student in a 2013 ragging case,...

New Delhi: Persons in illegal occupation of government or panchayat land cannot claim regularisation as a matter of right, the Supreme Court has said.A bench of Justices D Y Chandrachud and M R Shah said regularisation of the illegal...

United Nations: Secretary-General Antonio Guterres pledged Friday that the United Nations will do everything it can to unite the international community and create conditions for the military coup in Myanmar to be reversed, Associated Press reported.The UN chief told...

New Delhi: India's COVID-19 infection tally climbed to 1,08,14,304 with 11,713 new cases in a day, while 1,05,10,796 people have recuperated so far pushing the national recovery rate to 97.19 per cent on Saturday, according to Union Health Ministry...