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Washington: Dr Celine Gounder, an Indian-origin physician, is set to be part of the United States President-elect Joe Biden’s COVID-19 task force. Gounder — an assistant professor in the New...

New York: World Health Organization (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus thanked Indian prime minister Narendra Modi for his commitment to Covax and making COVID-19 vaccines a global public good, according...

Kuala Lumpur: Azrin Mohamad Zawawi, a pilot, lost his job during the COVID-19 pandemic as the airline he worked for got grounded due to the global shutdown. But even such...

Cape Town: In a shocking incident, over 50 people were reportedly beheaded by Islamist militants linked to ISIS terror group in the African nation of Mozambique. The terrorists turned a...

New Delhi: Nature is paying back human beings in kind, at least that is what the viral video which has ignited a discussion on waste management depicts. The video of...

Moscow: Russia's Sputnik V vaccine is 92 per cent effective in protecting people from COVID-19 according to interim trial results, Reuters reported. The interim results are based on data from...

Wasington: Indian-American Kash Patel has been recruited as the Chief of Staff to the Acting US Defence Secretary Chris Miller, the Pentagon announced. Kash Patel, 39, was appointed a day...

A hidden gene in the novel coronavirus could be the reason behind its deadly pandemic potential. Researchers have discovered overlapping genes or “genes within genes” in the virus, which helps...

London: The highly-used word 'lockdown' during the COVID-19 pandemic has been declared Collins Word of the Year 2020, PTI reported. The dictionary defines the word as "the imposition of stringent restrictions...

Washington: The outgoing US President Donald Trump on Monday accused the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Pfizer of keeping back the COVID-19 vaccine announcement before Presidential elections to prevent...