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Dhaka : Amid a dramatic surge in COVID-19 infections, Bangladesh will be going into a nationwide 'hard lockdown' from Monday for seven days in a bid to stem...

New Delhi [India]: As many as 50 cases of the Delta Plus variant of COVID-19 have been recorded across 11 states in India, government sources said on...

Beijing: At least 18 people died and 16 were injured in a fire at a martial arts school in central China in the early hours of Friday, according to a local...

New Delhi: India registered as many as 51,667 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, informed the Union Health Ministry.At 2.98 per cent, the daily...

Washington: US President Joe Biden on Thursday announced that he and Vice President Kamala Harris have agreed to a bipartisan infrastructure deal after a...

Geneva: Africa is in the midst of a third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, as cases surge weekly and are on course to overtake the second wave at its peak if...

Berlin: Classified as a "variant of interest" by the World Health Organization (WHO) on June 17, the lambda, or C.37, variant of the coronavirus has already...

Manila: Former Philippine President Benigno Aquino III died at the age of 61 early on Thursday, after a prolonged illness, according to media reports.Al...

Madrid, Spain: John McAfee, the British-American antivirus entrepreneur and founder of McAfee Associates, was found dead in a Spanish prison, as he was...

New Delhi: India recorded 54,069 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours and the daily positivity rate dropped to 2.91 per cent, the Union Health Ministry...