Mumbai/New Delhi, Two days after Varsha Raut, wife of Shiv Sena Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Raut appeared before the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in the PMC Bank fraud case, the agency again summoned her for questioning on January 11, officials said on Wednesday.

A senior ED official related to the probe told IANS, &quo

Gandhinagar  Taking a brave and according to some a hasty decision, the Gujarat government on Wednesday announced that it has decided to reopen schools for classes 10th and 12th and colleges in the state from January 11, provided Covid-19 guidelines are followed. The education minister also announced that decision rega

Washington, The number of Covid-19 infections in the US may have been about four times of the figure officially reported, according to a new study.

As of November 15, about 11 million Covid-19 cases were reported to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. However, the study, published on Tuesday, sugges

United Nations, A Chinese envoy on Tuesday called for caution in dealing with the issue of Syria's chemical weapons.

China notes that Syria has expressed on many occasions its strong willingness to cooperate with the Technical Secretariat of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), and

Moscow, The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and non-bloc producers agreed to allow Russia and Kazakhstan to slightly raise oil output in the next two months.

In accordance with a deal published by the OPEC, Russia will increase its output by 65,000 barrels per day (bpd) from the January level

Seoul, The South Korean government on Tuesday called for the early release of an oil tanker which was seized by Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) in the Gulf over what Tehran claimed to be "repeated violations" of environmental protocols.

Following the seizure on Monday, the IRGC said: &q

Moscow,  The Russian Foreign Ministry said that the US is responsible for Iran's recent decision of enriching uranium to 20 per cent.

The Iranian move was "a deviation" from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), commonly known as the Iran nuclear deal, but the "root cause&quo

United Nations, India has expressed concern over the possibility of terrorists getting hold of chemical weapons and called for unrelenting global action against them.

At a Security Council session on Tuesday on the use of chemical weapons in Syria, India's Permanent Representative T.S. Tirumurti, said, "I

Geneva, A World Health Organization (WHO) team due to investigate the origins of the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) in Wuhan city has been denied entry to China.

Two members had already set out on their journey - one has now turned back and the other is in transit in a third country, the BBC reported on Wednesd

New York, Routine eye imaging can identify changes in the retina that may be associated with cognitive disorders in older people with Type-1 diabetes, researchers say.

According to them, people with diabetes are more likely to develop Alzheimer's disease and other cognitive disorders than are people without di