Washington, Jul 21 (PTI) President Joe Biden has said that even though the United States has seen a dramatic drop in the number of COVID-19 deaths due to its vaccination programme, the people must remain vigilant about the more virulent Delta variant that is spreading fast in the country.
Stressing the...
Opposition leaders on Wednesday participated in the Martyrs’ Day program organized by All India Trinamool Congress to pay tribute to 13 martyrs killed in police firing on 21st July 1973 in Kolkata in New Delhi on wednesday and listened to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s speech here in...
The Delhi government on Friday ordered the closure of the popular Ghaffar Market and Naiwala market in Karol Bagh here for two days over violation of Covid protocols. It also ordered the closure of another market in Rohini for flouting Covid-19 norms.
Notably, these markets will remain shut from 10...
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar spoke to his Iranian counterpart Javad Zarif on Wednesday, focussing on the evolving situation in Afghanistan as well as bilateral issues.
The conversation came two weeks after Jaishankar held extensive talks with Zarif and called on Iran's President-elect Ebrahim Raisi during a stopover at the...
Haryana government announced the extension of the lockdown in the state till June 21, 2021. However, due to a sharp decline in the number of positivity rate, as well as the number of positive cases, more relaxations have been allowed in the state.The state has termed this COVID-19 lockdown...
Five of the six Lok Janshakti Party MPs in the Lok Sabha have joined hands against their leader Chirag Paswan and elected his paternal uncle Pashupati Kumar Paras in his place, causing a big churn in Bihar politics.
Paras on Monday lauded Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar as a good...
Flagging India's concerns over security challenges in the maritime sphere, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Wednesday called for a rule-based order in the Indo-Pacific and underlined the need for ensuring freedom of navigation, overflight and unimpeded commerce in the international waterways including the South China Sea.
In a virtual address...
Israel's new government will work to "advance strategic relations" with India, Alternate Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid said on Monday, a day after Naftali Bennett became the new premier ending Benjamin Netanyahu's 12-year hold on power.
"I look forward to working together to advance the strategic relations between...
The Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee (JKPCC) condemned the drone attack on the Indian Air Force (IAF) station here in the early hours of Sunday and demanded a thorough investigation into the "very serious" issue.
The party expressed sympathies with the injured IAF personnel and prayed for their early...
President-elect Ebrahim Raisi on Monday backed talks between Iran and six world powers to revive a 2015 nuclear deal but flatly rejected meeting U.S. President Joe Biden, even if Washington removed all sanctions.
In his first news conference since he was elected on Friday, the hardline cleric said his foreign...
