IPL 2020, MI vs RCB: Social media was awash with accolades for Suryakumar Yadav, whose unbeaten 79, two days after being omitted from the India limited-overs squads, helped MI beat RCB on Wednesday.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vented his outrage Wednesday at a "disgusting" cartoon in the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo depicting him looking up a woman's skirt while drinking beer...

The Assam government is all set to bring in a law that will prevent agents of microfinance firms to show up at the homes of borrowers to recover loans, Finance Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on...

Officials in the US city of Philadelphia announced a curfew Wednesday following two nights of unrest over the latest police killing of a Black man.

French President Emmanuel Macron announced Wednesday a new lockdown aimed at halting an alarming acceleration of Covid-19 cases, to take effect from Thursday night until "at least December 1."

President Ram Nath Kovind has signed off an ordinance or executive order for the formation of a committee to look into the air quality management in Delhi and its adjoining areas. The ordinance comes...

A woman actor who was allegedly kidnapped and sexually abused in Kerala's Ernakulam in 2017, has approached the Kerala High court to transfer the case from the present trial court in Ernakulam, where...

Officials of Google and PayTm have been summoned by the Parliamentary Joint Committee which is looking into the Personal Data Protection Bill. Officials from both firms will appear before the...

IPL 2020, MI vs RCB: Jasprit Bumrah took a three-wicket haul and then Suryakumar Yadav hit a fine 79 off 43 deliveries as Mumbai Indians beat Royal Challengers Bangalore by 5 wickets.

Democratic White House hopeful Joe Biden cast his ballot in the US presidential race Wednesday in Delaware, six days before the end of a turbulent campaign pitting him against incumbent Donald Trump.

The Oxford University's Covishield vaccine for coronavirus has drawn an immune response even in the elderly, who are among the groups vulnerable to the disease, Adar Poonawala, the chief of Serum...

Seventeen per cent of India's COVID deaths can be linked to long-term exposure to air pollution, higher than the global average of 15 per cent, a study conducted by six researchers from different...

Few by-elections have stakes as high as the one that Madhya Pradesh will hold next week. Twenty-eight seats will be up for contest after former Congress leader Jyotiraditya Scindia defected to the...

A Joint Committee of Parliament issued a notice on Wednesday calling representatives of telecom operators Reliance Jio and Airtel and cab aggregators Ola and Uber to depose before it on the issue of...

M Sivasankar, the former principal secretary to Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, has been arrested by the Enforcement Directorate in the gold smuggling case.

Assam Joint Entrance Exam topper, his father arrested by police for allegedly using proxy to write exam

The Goa government on Wednesday asked filmmaker Karan Johar's Dharma Productions to tender an apology for "littering" at a village in the state during a film shoot recently, and said that if the...

Most politicians would simply be too happy to preside over flashy inaugurations to admonish officials for any kind of lapses. Nitin Gadkari is not among them.

From his jail cell, Chinedu Efoagui sent a plea. "I'm innocent," he wrote his lawyer. "Have all the charges dropped."

Over a thousand users of Twitter on Wednesday reported outages on the social networking site from several parts of the world, including India.