New York, January 27 (IANS): "Withdrawn". A single word on a thick bureaucratic file on the seventh day of the Biden administration delivered a huge win for spouses of workers on H1B visas in the US w
New York, January 27 (IANS): Global Covid-19 cases surpassed 100 million on Tuesday, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University.
The global case count reac
Rome, January 26 (IANS): Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte on Tuesday confirmed to his Cabinet that he would tender his resignation following widespread criticism of his handling of the coronavirus pandemic
Geneva, January 26 (IANS): The number of Covid-19 cases worldwide is expected to reach 100 million within this week, said the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
Washington, January 26 (IANS): The total number of global coronavirus cases has topped 99.6 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 2.13 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University.
In its
Washington, January 26 (AP): House Democrats delivered the impeachment case against Donald Trump to the Senate late Monday for the start of his historic trial, but Republican senators were easing off their crit
Beijing, January 26 (AP): The US-Chinese trade war isn't going away under President Joe Biden.
Biden won't confront Beijing right away, economists say, because he wants to focus on the coronavirus an
Washington, January 26 (AP): President Joe Biden signed an order Monday reversing a Trump-era Pentagon policy that largely barred transgender individuals from serving in the military.
The new order, which Bi
London, January 25 (PTI): A diamond bracelet and jewelled decorative elephants from Jaipur are some of the Indian heirlooms that make up a collection of 350 personal items belonging to Patricia Mountbatten, the
London, January 25 (PTI): UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced a new international coalition to tackle the impacts of climate change on Monday.
Johnson officially launched the Adaptation Action Coalitio
COLOMBO, JANUARY 25 (IANS): Sri Lanka's Department of Wildlife Conservation will conduct an island-wide elephant census this year after a decade to determine the exact number of the animals in the country,
London, January 25 (PTI): Earth has lost 28 trillion tonnes of ice between 1994 and 2017, according to a study which reveals that the rate at which ice is disappearing across the planet is speeding up.
The r
MIAMI, JANUARY 25 (IANS): A banner with with the words, "Trump worst President ever" was reportedly flown by a plane near the former US leader's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, according to a media
ADDIS ABABA, JANUARY 25 (IANS): The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has warned that desert locust swarms are expected to descend on large parts of Ethiopia and Kenya in the coming weeks.
In its la
Beijing, January 25 (IANS): A day after 11 trapped workers were rescued from a gold mine in China's Shandong province, authorities on Monday retrieved the bodies of the 10 other miners, while one was still
San Francisco, January 25 (IANS): Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates, who has been a target of conspiracy theorists for his push for vaccinations, has received the first dose of a Covid-19 vaccine.
London, January 25 (IANS): With new Covid-19 strains reported from several parts of the world giving fresh threats to the fight against the pandemic, a group of scientists is calling on governments to consider
Taipei, January 25 (AP): Chinese state media have played up questions about Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine and whether it could be lethal to the very old. A government spokesperson suggests the coronavirus could
Mexico City, January 25 (IANS): Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador announced on Monday that he has tested positive for the novel coronavirus, becoming the latest to join a long list of world leaders
Tel Aviv, January 25 (IANS): Israel has announced that it has opened an embassy in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), following a normalisation deal signed last year to establish diplomatic ties between the two na