Ranchi, The Jharkhand government has appointed visually-impaired 2007 batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer Rajesh Singh as Deputy Commissioner of Bokaro.

He is the first visually-impaired Deputy Commissioner in the state. Earlier, he was a special secretary in the department of Higher and Technic

Kabul, With the detection of 159 new COVID-19 cases, the tally in Afghanistan on Friday reached 35,229, health officials said.

According to a statement by the Public Health Ministry, 572 tests were conducted in 12 of the country's 34 provinces.

So far, 1,147 deaths have been recorded in the coun

Tokyo, Japan's Defence Minister Taro Kono has called on the United States to conduct COVID-19 tests on all US military personnel coming to Japan as the virus has hit several US bases in the southernmost prefecture of Okinawa.

Kono on Friday said that the Defence Ministry has requested that US military personne

London, Britain's Princess Beatrice on Friday married her Italian fiance at a small private ceremony in Windsor, attended by Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip among other family members, reports said.

Beatrice is the elder daughter of the Queen's second son, Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, and Sarah Fergu

Chandigarh, A day after a trial court in Punjab sent the prime suspect in the fake Sri Lankan cricket league to judicial custody along with two others for recently hosting a fake Sri Lankan T20 league near Chandigarh, it on Friday granted six-week interim bail to Ravinder Dandiwal, who is also allegedly involved in international

New Delhi, We thought this is going to go away pretty soon, but daily Covid-19 numbers are shockingly alarming and even after more than five months of the virus hitting us, a vaccine is nowhere in sight.

The unexplained surge has left the experts and the scientific community at large running out of options as to h

Hyderabad, On a day the Supreme Court dismissed a petition that challenged a Telangana High Court refusal to order the state against the demolition of the old Secretariat buildings, the High Court on Friday lifted a stay on the demolition work to pave way for the building of a grand complex on the spot.

Dismissing

Bengaluru, Confirming he was coronavirus negative, Bengaluru Commissioner of Police Bhaskar Rao on Friday said he was in home quarantine for four days after his vehicle's driver tested positive.

"My driver has tested coronavirus positive; I have home-quarantined myself for four days and will get tested ag

Dharamsala, Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama has written to Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal to express solidarity with the victims of the unprecedented floods in the state which have so far claimed 71 lives and affected over 40 lakh people.

"The monsoon rains in Assam and other parts of India b

Chandigarh, Haryana Health Minister Anil Vij on Friday said that human trial of a vaccine against novel coronavirus has begun at the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences in Rohtak.

Human trial of COVAXIN of Bharat Biotech has started at PGIMES, Rohtak, Vij tweeted.

"Three subjects enroll