Last year we left our protagonists, the entire population of planet Earth, cornered by a new coronavirus. They seemed on…
The United Nations is predicting that a record 274 million people, who together would amount to the world's fourth most-populous…
The Chinese scientist at the centre of theories that the coronavirus pandemic originated with a leak from her specialised lab…
French virologist and Nobel Prize winner Luc Montagnier called mass vaccination against the coronavirus during the pandemic “unthinkable” and a…
Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Tuesday alleged that "countless" lives have been lost during the COVID-19 second wave due…
Microsoft co-founder turned philanthropist Bill Gates says he has been taken aback by the volume of “crazy” and “evil” conspiracy…
Four times as many jobs were lost last year due to the coronavirus pandemic as during the worst part of…
Around a million doctors in India went on a day-long strike on Friday amid the coronavirus pandemic to protest against…
The head of the World Health Organization said on Monday that a vaccine would not by itself stop the coronavirus…
U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday briefly acknowledged losing the U.S. election in a morning Twitter post but then backtracked,…
U.S. President-elect Joe Biden on Wednesday named longtime adviser Ron Klain as his White House chief of staff, his first…
Air quality in India’s capital deteriorated to its worst this year on Tuesday, prompting a social media barrage of residents…
The Indian economy will suffer its deepest contraction on record this fiscal year and recent government stimulus does not go…
India’s tally of coronavirus infections stood at 7.31 million on Thursday, having risen by 67,708 in the last 24 hours,…
India’s total coronavirus cases rose by 66,732 in the last 24 hours to 7.12 million on Monday morning, data from…
Two Americans and a Briton won the 2020 Nobel Prize for Medicine on Monday for work in identifying the Hepatitis…
Tesla Inc chief executive Elon Musk indicated on Friday that the U.S. electric carmaker will make a foray into India…
India’s monsoon rains in 2020 were above average for the second year in a row, the first time that has…
Business groups on Thursday welcomed contentious and long-delayed labour reforms passed by the Parliament this week, aimed at making hiring…
For four decades, Nobel peace laureate Kailash Satyarthi rescued thousands of children from the scourge of slavery and trafficking but…
United Nations food chief David Beasley has called on the world’s billionaires to step up to help save some 30…
The government has sought Parliamentary approval to inject Rs 200 billion rupees ($2.72 billion) in state-run banks in the current…
The knock-on effects of the coronavirus pandemic have halted and reversed global health progress, setting it back 25 years and…
Concentrations of greenhouse gases in the Earth’s atmosphere hit a record high this year, a United Nations report showed, as…
Jacob Blake, the Black man who was shot in the back by a white police officer in Wisconsin last month,…
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