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Indians' COVID-19 vaccination to be on voluntary basis: Health Ministry

The Indian Health Ministry announced that getting vaccinated will be voluntary while underlining that the vaccine introduced in India will...

Election Commission of India proposes allowing NRIs to vote through postal ballots

The Election Commission of India has approached the government to permit Non-Resident Indians (NRIs) to cast their votes through postal...

Obama on India: Problems with caste, poverty, rivalry with Pakistan, and political nepotism

Former US President Barack Obama's tell-all memoir 'A Promised Land' has been making waves since its release.

India strongly condemns personal attack on French President Emmanuel Macron

The Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India released a press statement strongly condemning the personal attacks in unacceptable...

INR 3,600 crore recovered from Mallya so far, SBI-led banks' consortium tells Supreme Court of India

The State Bank of India (SBI)-led consortium of banks has told the Supreme Court of India that around INR 3,600 crore had been recovered...

India overtakes US in COVID-19 recoveries even as cases cross 5.4 million

India's COVID-19 case tally crossed 5.4 million mark yesterday, with a spike of 92,605 new cases and 1,133 deaths, according to health and...

Sumit Nagal becomes first Indian in 7 years to win at US Open

Sumit Nagal became the first Indian to win a singles match at the US Open in seven years when he beat Bradley Klahn yesterday and set up a...

Indian Supreme Court directs Vijay Mallya to appear before it on October 5

The Indian Supreme Court has directed embattled businessman Vijay Mallya, who has been ordered to be extradited from the United Kingdom, to...

Pranab Mukherjee - One of India's premier statesmen

The 13th President of India (2012-2017), served the nation in various capacities over a political career spanning five decades.

India COVID-19 testing rate higher than WHO's recommendations, says ICMR

India has been testing around 23.7 people per lakh for COVID-19, much higher than the World Health Organisation’s (WHO's) recommended...

COVID-19: India sees drop in mortality rate, rise in recoveries even as cases spike

India's COVID-19 Case Fatality Ratio (CFR) stands at 1.93%, as of today, signalling a continuous decline in the mortality rate.

Higher COVID-19 case spikes in India last week than US, Brazil: WHO

For the past seven days, India's single-day count of Covid-19 cases has been more than that of the US and Brazil, the two worst-hit nations...

Indian Home Ministry allows OCI cardholders from air bubble nations to travel to India

The Indian Home Ministry has given permission for Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) cardholders from countries with which air bubble...

Indian community in US celebrates foundation-laying of new Ram Temple

Indian-Americans across the United States celebrated the foundation stone laying ceremony of the new Ram Janma Bhoomi Temple in the holy...

Indian banks pushing for bankruptcy order against Mallya to be enforced in UK court

A consortium of Indian banks led by the State Bank of India (SBI) are pursuing a bankruptcy order against liquor tycoon Vijay Mallya in the...

IIT-Delhi devises method to cut COVID-19 test costs

Responding to the critical shortage of COVID-19 testing kits, researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi announced the...

Chief Justice of India calls for judiciary to be more efficient in cases involving foreign investors, arbitration

Chief Justice of India SA Bobde has said that the judiciary needs to reduce delays in dealing with cases involving foreign investors or...

Former IPCC, TERI chief RK Pachauri dies at 79

RK Pachauri, the former chief of The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) and the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change...

Indian athletes to get etiquette lessons from NRI professor ahead of Tokyo Olympics

The Indian sports ministry and the Indian Olympic Association (IOA), in collaboration with an Indian-origin professor at Japan’s...

UK court to hear Vijay Mallya’s appeal against extradition today

The United Kingdom High Court is expected to today begin hearing embattled Indian liquor baron Vijay Mallya’s appeal against being...

Indian Ambassador Taranjit Sandhu presents credentials to US President

Ambassador of India to the United States Taranjit Singh Sandhu presented his credentials on Thursday to President of the United States of...

Foreign tourism to India on the downturn in recent years: Economic Survey

The Indian Finance Ministry’s Economic Survey 2020 found that foreign tourist arrivals decelerated to 5.2 per cent in 2018 and 2.7 per...

Madras High Court calls for ban on NRIs buying houses to lower market rates

The Madras High Court in India proposed a ban on Non-resident Indians (NRIs) purchasing houses in India, prohibiting speculative sales and...

Fulbright Exchange Programme in India turns 70

A gala was held in New Delhi to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the prestigious Fulbright Fellow programme by the US-India Educational...