Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps seized a South Koreanflagged tanker in Gulf waters, Iranian media said on Monday, at a time of tension between Tehran and Seoul over Iranian funds frozen at South Korean banks due to U.S. sanctions.
The benchmark BSE sensex breached 47,000-mark for the first time ever on Friday, while NSE Nifty traded above 13,750-levels. The sensex touched an intra-day high of 47,026 and soon turned flat in early trade.
The Interpol global police coordination agency warned on Wednesday that organised criminal networks could be targeting COVID19 vaccines, and could look to sell fake shots.
The University of Oxford has partnered with U.S.based Thermo Fisher Scientific to ramp up its capacity to deliver COVID19 testing data and help collect and quantify immune responses in its vaccine trials, the university said on Tuesday.
Huawei has appealed Sweden's decision to exclude the Chinese telecom equipment maker from being a supplier in the rollout of 5G networks in the Nordic country, the Swedish telecoms regulator PTS said on Friday.
Algerians finished voted in a referendum on a new constitution on Sunday, but early turnout figures suggested little enthusiasm for changes intended by the government to turn the page on last year's political unrest.
The move is a part of the country's development roadmap for the aviation industry launched in 2015, and currently being implemented, according to an official statement.
Tropical Storm Zeta pounded Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula overnight with high winds and heavy rain, though reports suggested it had not done serious damage before it moved back to the sea and towards the U.S. Gulf Coast, authorities said on Tuesday.
The Congress leader is facing the case for calling Shah a "murder accused" at an election rally in Rajasthan before the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
The death of two more persons due to coronavirus pushed the toll to 218 in Chandigarh while 61 new cases took the infection tally to 14,038 in the Union Territory on Sunday, according to a medical bulletin. There are 653 active cases in the city as of n...
A federal judge refused Friday to block New Yorks plan to temporarily limit the size of religious gatherings in COVID19 hot spots.
Three policemen were arrested on Monday for allegedly playing a role in forcibly taking an engineer to a Maharashtra cabinet minister's house in Thane and beating him up there, an official said. On April 5 this year, engineer Anant Karmuse (40) alleged...
Uttar Pradesh recorded 3,946 new cases of the novel coronavirus, bringing the infection count to 4,06,995 on Friday, according to official data. The death toll from the pandemic stands at 5,917 in the state with 54 new fatalities, a health bulletin said.
South Carolina's governor promised on Thursday to do whatever the Marines need to keep open the training base at Parris Island after a top military official floated the idea of closing the base and building a new one elsewhere that would allow it to easil...
He said the law, which was accorded presidential assent on Sunday, is "liable to be struck down as unconstitutional, illegal and void"
