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LONDON: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was mulling a second national lockdown on Monday, as an accelerating outbreak of coronavirus threatened to destroy any buds of economic recovery and send millions back into isolation. The UK already has the highest official death toll from Covid-19 in Europe, and the fifth …

Written by Adrija Roychowdhury | Updated: September 21, 2020 5:30:08 pm The UN boasts of several important achievements in the last 75 years. It has also expanded its scope to solve a large number of global problems such as health, the environment, the empowerment of women, among others. The United …

Phase III or last stage of the clinical trial of the Covid-19 ‘Covishield’ vaccine, which is being developed by the University of Oxford and manufactured by the Serum Institute of India (SII), began today at the Sassoon General Hospital, administered for the state, in Pune, Maharashtra on Monday, a senior …

NEW DELHI: India ranks first in the world in terms of total Covid-19 recoveries, with the country accounting for 19 percent of total global recoveries, the Union Health Ministry said on Tuesday. Meanwhile, for the first time in at least four months into the pandemic, weekly Covid-19 cases in India …

Director Anurag Kashyap got into trouble on Saturday when actor Payal Ghosh accused the director of alleged sexual assault. And since then, the director has found support from friends in the industry, including Hansal Mehta, Taapse Pannu, Mohd Zeeshan Ayyub, as well as his former wives, film editor Aarti Bajaj …

NEW DELHI: A sell-off in the stock market eroded Rs 4.23,139.78 crore of investors’ wealth in a single trading session on Monday. Markets witnessed significant selling pressure in the second half of trading as the 30-share BSE benchmark closed 811.68 points or 2.09 percent lower at 38,034.14. Following the weakness …

SRH vs RCB: Virat Kohli’s RCB will aim to record a win against David Warner’s SRH© BCCI / IPL SunRisers Hyderabad won the draw against Royal Challengers Bangalore and chose to play first at Dubai International Cricket Stadium in match 3 of the 2020 Indian Premier League (IPL) on Monday. …

The Punjab Kings XI have appealed against the controversial ‘short term’ call from outfield referee Nitin Menon at the decisive moment of their IPL game against Delhi Capitals as the former players seek more technological intervention in the interests of fair results. Before the match went into Super Over, television …

Written by Vishal Menon, edited by Explained Desk | New Delhi | Updated: September 21, 2020 4:50:54 pm On the third ball of the penultimate round during the Kings XI Punjab chase, square leg referee Menon called Chris Jordan for a ‘short run’. (Twitter) The 13th edition of the Indian …

CALCUTTA: The National Investigative Agency (NIA), which arrested six al-Qaeda terrorists from the Murshidabad district of West Bengal, found that more people in the state are working for the terrorist team, an official from the investigative agency said. When questioning the six arrested in Murshidabad on Saturday, NIA detectives have …