India

New Delhi: The legal age of smoking in India is likely to be raised to 21 years soon. The Union government has drafted a bill, the Cigarettes and other Tobacco...

London: Nirav Modi’s younger sister Purvi Mehta and his brother-in-law Maiank Mehta will testify against the fugitive diamantaire after they turned approvers in the Rs 13,500-crore Punjab National Bank (PNB)...

New Delhi: CoWIN, the Union government’s app for COVID-19 vaccination, will use an Aadhaar-based authentication system for the rollout of the vaccine, to prevent malpractice. The CoWIN system will help...

Guwahati: Book publishers, writers, journalists and readers assembled at the prestigious 33rd Guwahati Book Fair to dwell on the challenges faced by the book (publication) industry during the COVID-19 induced...

New Delhi: The Union government will hold a national-level online exam on ‘gau vigyan’ (cow science) on February 25. The purpose of this voluntary exam is to get students and...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday issued notices to the Centre, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand on a petition questioning respective state legislations that outlaw and punish religious conversion by...

Mumbai: Rohit Sharma will replace Mayank Agarwal while the young fast bowler Navdeep Saini will debut in place of the injured fast bowler Umesh Yadav against Australia in the Third...

Mumbai: Industrialist and philanthropist Ratan Tata has won the hearts of millions once again with his humble gesture. The 83-year-old travelled from Mumbai to Pune to visit a former employee...

New Delhi: Following the death of a large number of birds in Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh and Kerala, the Centre asked the state governments to “take all possible steps for containing...

New Delhi: The impending danger of the new mutant strain of coronavirus found in the UK helped Bharat Biotech get  emergency use approval for its vaccine candidate Covaxin. India has...