November 20, 2021

An explosion ripped off a part of a railway track in Jharkhand’s Dhanbad division derailing a diesel locomotive in the early hours of Saturday. The Railways said it was a “bomb blast” which occurred between Garwa Road and Barkana section…

US Congressman Andy Levin has welcomed the repeal of the three farm laws in India. Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday announced that the government has decided to repeal the three farm laws, which were at the centre of protests by…

State police and central agencies must coordinate better, and focus on coastal and border security apart from cyber crime, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Friday. “The Home Minister stressed for better coordination between the…

The decision to repeal the three farm laws marks the most significant step back by the Narendra Modi government since 2014 and has its roots in the way it misread – and framed – the groundswell against the laws in Punjab since last summer.…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has announced the repeal of the three contentious farm laws, which had witnessed protests from farmers, mainly from Punjab and Haryana, on the borders of Delhi for more than a year. A look at some faces of…

Belarus authorities on Thursday cleared the main camps where migrants had huddled at the border with Poland, in a change of tack that could help calm a crisis that has spiralled in recent weeks into a major East-West confrontation. In…

Lightning-sparked wildfires killed thousands of giant sequoias this year, leading to a staggering two-year death toll that accounts for up to nearly a fifth of Earth’s largest trees, officials said Friday. Fires in Sequoia National Park…

President Joe Biden will transfer power briefly to Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday while he is under anaesthesia for a routine colonoscopy, making her the first woman to hold presidential power in US history. Biden is undergoing…

A scientist who has pored over public accounts of early Covid-19 cases in China reported Thursday that an influential World Health Organization inquiry had likely gotten the early chronology of the pandemic wrong. The new analysis suggests…

The United States is considering a diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Olympics, President Joe Biden confirmed on Thursday, a move that would be aimed at protesting China’s human rights record, including what Washington says is genocide…

A New York trial judge on Thursday temporarily blocked the New York Times from publishing some materials concerning the conservative activist group Project Veritas, a rare step that the newspaper said violated decades of First Amendment…

Flipkart said on Friday it will acquire a majority stake in Kolkata-based Sastasundar Marketplace, which owns and operates online pharmacy and digital healthcare platform SastaSundar.com. While the Walmart-owned e-commerce major did not…

Covid pandemic has proved to be a boon for insurance companies. With people increasingly taking health cover to meet medical expenses, general insurance companies have reported a 29.81 per cent rise in premium income from the health segment…

Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) and Saudi Aramco have decided to drop the latter’s mega plan to acquire 20 per cent stake in RIL’s oil-to-chemical business “in light of the changed context”. “The current application with NCLT for…

Go Fashion IPO: The initial public offering (IPO) of Go Fashion (India), which owns women’s wear brand Go Colors, opened for subscription on Wednesday, November 17, 2021. The offer got fully subscribed within hours of opening on the first…

An online personal loan can come in very handy especially when you have many events to plan. With ample cash in hand, you can book a vacation, host a party, renovate your house, buy assets or home appliances, and more. To meet your…

ATK Mohun Bagan put up a dominating display to beat Kerala Blasters 4-2 in the opening game of the Hero Indian Super League (ISL) here on Friday. Hugo Boumous (3′, 39′) and Liston Colaco (50′), brought in for upwards of Rs 3.5 Crore,…

Tim Paine became the second successive Australia captain to quit in tears, this time less than three weeks before the start of the Ashes. He resigned after a leading Melbourne newspaper got a whiff of the story about Paine’s 2017 sex-text…

This Indian team doesn’t have the kind of opener that makes fans subconsciously break into a run at the first sight of the stadium on match days. The power to control the minds and strides of those headed to turnstiles isn’t always with…

India captain Rohit Sharma on Friday lauded the application of his players under pressure situations and attributed the T20 series win over New Zealand to “team effort”. India on Friday defeated New Zealand by seven wickets to take an…