The country’s foreign exchange reserves surged by USD 3.074 billion to reach a record high of USD 608.081 billion in the week ended June 11, the latest data from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) showed on Friday. The reserves had increased by USD 6.842 billion to USD 605.008 billion in the previous week ended June…
India reported 60,753 fresh Covid cases in the last 24 hours, informed the Health Ministry on Saturday. 97,743 patients recovered during the same time, taking the total tally to 2,86,78,390 recoveries across the country so far. Meanwhile, Brazil on Friday recorded 98,832 Covid cases and 2,495 deaths in the last 24…
Unprecedented and rapidly evolving security scenario in the neighbourhood has prompted a monumental transformation in the Indian Air Force (IAF), Air Chief Marshal RKS Bhadauria said. “Rapid infusion of niche technology and combat power in every facet of our operations have never been as intense as it is now,” he…
A woman in Bihar was administered shots of Covishield and Covaxin Covid-19 vaccines in a span of five minutes. The woman, identified as Sunila Devi, is doing okay and is under the observation of a medical team, officials have said. The incident reportedly took place on June 16 at a village in Punpun block of rural…
Iran’s hard-line judiciary chief Ebrahim Raisi won the country’s presidential election in a landslide victory Saturday, propelling the supreme leader’s protege into Tehran’s highest civilian position in a vote that appeared to see the lowest turnout in the Islamic Republic’s history.…
Samajwadi Party leader Ummed Pahalwan Idrisi has been arrested in Delhi in connection with the Loni assault case, police have said. A team of Ghaziabad police arrested Ummed Pahalwan Idrisi along with another person, Gulshan, near Delhi’s Lok Narayan Jai Prakash Hospital, police…
Amid arrests in the fake vaccine scam in Mumbai, a city-based college has filed a complaint with the police against organisers of a vaccination camp held on its campus earlier this month. In a statement released on Friday, Borivali’s Aditya College alleged that a vaccination drive was held on its campus on June 3 by…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will chair an all party-meeting on Jammu and Kashmir on June 24 in New Delhi. Sources said that informal invites to major political leaders in J&K have also been sent. Speaking to India Today, PDP President, Mehbooba Mufti said that she did “receive an informal invite and they…
Jailed Kerala-based journalist Siddique Kappan’s mother passed away on Friday, according to local media reports. Kappan has been in prison since October 5 last year in a case linked to an alleged conspiracy to inflame religious enmity over the rape in Hathras of a Dalit girl and her death. Kappan and three PFI…
AstraZeneca said on Friday the European Union had lost a legal case against the pharmaceutical firm over the supply of COVID-19 vaccines, with a court in Brussels rejecting an EU request for more deliveries by the end of June. But European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said Friday’s ruling supported…