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Hong Kong: Researchers here claim to have found the first evidence of someone being reinfected with the virus that causes COVID-19. Genetic tests have revealed that a 33-year-old man returning...

Seoul: Amid fresh rumours of 'death' and 'failing health', North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un is believed to be in a coma. Chang Song-min, a former aide to South Korea’s...

Los Angeles: A new study that says several critically endangered primates such as the Western lowland gorilla, Sumatran orangutan, and Northern white-cheeked gibbon may be susceptible to the novel coronavirus....

Beijing: Chinese video-sharing application TikTok on Sunday said it will file a lawsuit against the Donald Trump administration over an executive order to ban transactions with the parent company ByteDance...

London: A pair of gold-plated glasses that belonged to Mahatma Gandhi fetched 260,000 pounds at an auction in Britain. According to an AFP report, East Bristol Auction House found Gandhi’s...

New Delhi: Going by reports coming in from all over the world, it will be quite a while before we can ditch face masks. However, as shutdowns end and some...

Washington: An Indian national was arrested on Thursday on charges of visa fraud and inducing foreign nationals to come to the US using fraudulently obtained H-1B visas, federal prosecutors said...

London: The World Health Organization (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus hoped that the coronavirus pandemic would end in less than two years’ time — lesser than the time taken for...

New York:  Researchers have found that 'tocilizumab' a drug normally used in rheumatoid arthritis and cancer treatments improves hospital survival in critically ill COVID-19 patients admitted to the intensive care...

New Delhi: Russia is looking for a partnership with India for mass production of the COVID-19 vaccine, Sputnik V, developed in that country. This was announced by Kirill Dmitriev, the...