India

New Delhi: The Union government launched the e-SHRAM portal on Thursday. It will build a comprehensive database of the unorganised workforce, comprising construction labourers, migrant workers, street vendors and domestic...

New Delhi: Actor, philanthropist Sonu Sood, was appointed Delhi government’s brand ambassador for mentorship programme for children. The announcement came after he met chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday. “We...

Bumper-to-bumper insurance should be mandatory whenever a new vehicle is sold, beginning September 1, the Madras High Court has ruled. This must be in addition to covering the driver, passengers...

New Delhi: Serum Institute of India (SII) will provide around 20 crore Covishield doses to the Central government in September – double the number it had committed to earlier. “We...

Yahoo has shut down its news websites in India including Yahoo News, Yahoo Cricket, Finance, Entertainment and MAKERS India. The reason is the new foreign direct investment (FDI) rules, which...

New Delhi: The central government's new Drone Rules 2021 are much more liberalised regime for unmanned aircraft systems. Under the new rules, a draft of which was released in July,...

New Delhi: All India Institute of Medical Science (AIIMS) chief Randeep Guleria has said that “the idea of booster doses can wait" and India should at the moment focus on...

  New Delhi: With over 8 million followers, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor is quite a favourite of the netizens. The best part is that he takes jokes on him sportingly...

New Delhi: ZyCoV-D, the COVID-19 vaccine which has been approved for children in the age group of 12-17 years, will be rolled out in October. Making the important announcement on...

Mumbai: Union minister Narayan Rane, who was arrested on Tuesday following his ‘slap’ comment against chief minister Uddhav Thackeray, hit back a day later by threatening the Maharashtra government over...