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Six times more booster shots of coronavirus vaccine are being administered around the world daily than primary doses in low-income countries, the director-general of the World Health Organization said Friday, calling the disparity “a…

Passengers on board Vande Bharat Express between Delhi and Katra will be encapsulated in a completely vegetarian environment, and not just in terms of food. The cleaning agents, soaps and other such items will also be “neutral” material;…

IN A major relief to senior BJP leader and former Deputy Chief Minister of the erstwhile Jammu and Kashmir state Dr Nirmal Singh, and his wife Mamta Singh, the Jammu and Kashmir Special Tribunal has kept in abeyance the November 8 order of…

FROM JUST SIX in 2018 to 55 in 2020 and 315 in 2021, the enrolment of girls in Sainik Schools — the six-decade-old institution set up with the “primary aim of preparing boys” for the National Defence Academy — has been steadily rising.…

At least 26 Maoists were killed Saturday in a fierce encounter with security forces in a dense forest in Gadchiroli district, Maharashtra police said. Four policemen were also injured in the encounter and were taken to a Nagpur hospital.…

Ahead of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to India early next month, Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a meeting with a delegation of US lawmakers on Saturday, led by Senator John Cornyn. Cornyn was one of the two US senators who…

Two days after Harekala Hajabba received his Padma Shri, the government school the former fruit vendor helped build started on a typical note. Even as Karnataka Road State Transport Corporation staff were at his home to felicitate him, the…

A call to end subsidies on fossil fuels in the draft text invited strong objections from India and many other developing countries but the Glasgow climate meeting seemed all set on Saturday night to push through an agreement despite several…

An injunction suit has been filed before a Delhi court seeking to stop the publication, circulation, and sale of ex-Union minister Salman Khurshid’s book for allegedly hurting the sentiments of a large section of society, the lawyer of the…

The Indian team will have a week-long preparatory camp in Mumbai from Monday ahead of the series against New Zealand without Rahul Dravid, who will be with the T20 squad. In another important development, VVS Laxman will replace Dravid as…