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New Delhi:  India recorded a single-day rise of 127,510 new COVID-19 cases, the lowest in 51 days, taking the country's infection tally to 28,175,044,...

Geneva, Switzerland: The World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday renamed the B.1.617.2 variant of the coronavirus, first identified in India, as the...

Kathmandu : Tsang Yin-Hung, a former teacher from Hong Kong, became the fastest woman to scale Mount Everest with a time of just under 26 hours.In an...

Manila: Philippines government has extended the ban on inbound travel from seven countries, including India, until June 15 to prevent transmission of the...

Geneva: The World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday renamed the B.1.617.2 variant of the coronavirus, first identified in India, as the 'Delta variant'.In...

Dhaka [Bangladesh]: As Bangladesh reported 1,710 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, the country's cumulative count of infections has surpassed 800,000...

Washington: With a renewed focus on a fresh investigation into the origins of the novel coronavirus, US experts and officials on Sunday called on China to...

Beijing: In a major shift, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) on Monday announced that it will allow all couples to have three children, ending a two-child...

One person was killed and a large number of students were abducted Sunday at an Islamic seminary in Nigeria's north-central Niger State, a police spokesman...

New Delhi: With 1,52,734 COVID-19 infections in the last 24 hours India maintained its declining trend of new cases and reported the lowest-single day...