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London: Prime Minister Boris Johnson forced England back into another lockdown after COVID-19 cases in the United Kingdom surged past one million and the second wave of infections is threatening...

Shanghai: In a technological marvel, a primary school in China’s most populous city ‘walked’ on mechanical legs to a new location earlier this month. The entire five-storeyed Lagena Primary School...

London/Paris: UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is mulling imposing fresh lockdown measures starting next week as the number of COVID-19-related hospitalizations in the country keeps increasing, The Times reported. Johnson...

New York: Johnson & Johnson plans to start testing its experimental COVID-19 vaccine in youths aged 12 to 18 as soon as possible. "We plan to go into children as...

New Delhi: Pandemics in the future will be deadlier and frequent if humans do not change the way they treat nature, a United Nations biodiversity panel warned on Thursday. Pandemics...

New Delhi: A powerful earthquake in Turkey and Greece killed at least 22 people on Friday. As many as 196 aftershocks were felt with 23 hitting over magnitude 4.0, Turkish...

New Delhi: Following an emergency committee meeting on October 29 on COVID-19, the World Health Organization (WHO) said that it is still a public health emergency of international concern. The...

India is a key constituent in the concrete global action to fight against COVID-19 pandemic, including large-scale production of vaccine, World Economic Forum’s Founder and Chairman Klaus Schwab said. Moreover,...

Travelling by air does not pose as great a risk of contracting coronavirus as eating at a restaurant or going out to buy groceries. In a study titled ‘Aviation Public...

New Delhi: Twitter deleted a controversial tweet by former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad glorifying the violence that struck France on Thursday. The social networking site said that the tweet...