The Director of the Intelligence Bureau (IB) has pointed out that there have been instances where some state agencies had hesitated to share their intelligence inputs with this multi-agency centre (MAC), the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Union Home Ministry Demand for Grants stated on Thursday. The Director also stated that they were

Up to 2,241 new cases of COVID-19 have been reported across the globe as of Thursday, bringing the total count to 95,333, according to the latest official data by the World Health Organization (WHO).

Five countries, territories and areas reported COVID-19 cases for the first time in the past 24 hours, the Xinhua news agency report

An Australian high school has been forced to shut its doors for the immediate future after a 16-year-old student tested positive for the COVID-19.

According to New South Wales (NSW) State Premier Gladys Berejiklian on Friday, the decision to close Epping Boys High School in North Sydney was not taken lightly, the Xinhua news agenc

Hossein Sheikholeslam, Iran's former ambassador to Syria, died of COVID-19 on Thursday, official IRNA news agency reported.

Iran's Ministry of Health and Medical Education announced on Thursday that the death toll from the novel coronavirus rose to 107, up from 92 on Wednesday. The total number of confirmed cases of infect

Saudi Arabia on Thursday warned its citizens against travelling to Iran and asked those who went there in February to contact the health ministry amid the outbreak of the coronavirus.

The warning was made after five novel coronavirus cases, four of them Saudi citizens who returned from Iran, have been registered in the kingdom, th

The Supreme Court said on Thursday it may examine the legal issues emerging from the Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder case, where four convicts are on death row, whether there is a possibility to hang the convicts separately.

A bench headed by Justice R. Banumathi and comprising Justices Ashok Bhushan and A.S. Bopanna said the larger

A special train carrying Shiv Sena activists left from Lokmanya Tilak Terminus for Ayodhya ahead of Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray's upcoming visit to the temple town on Saturday, officials said here on Thursday.

The train departed around 2 p.m. with party activists carrying party flags, banners and raising full-t

After seizing a Chinese ship which carried nuclear-capable equipment to Pakistan, New Delhi has raised the issue of proliferation with Beijing.


In a media briefing on Thursday, Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Raveesh Kumar said, that the Indian authorities had detained a Chinese vessel 'Da Cui Yan' when i

BJP leader Bhupender Yadav, who is in-charge of party affairs in Bihar, on Thursday said that there was perfect coordination between the BJP and its ally Janata Dal-United in view of the coming Assembly elections in the eastern state.

Clarifying his party's stand on the caste census, Yadav said that the BJP was never opposed t

The Delhi State Minorities Commission has written to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal suggesting that the compensation for the victims of riots in northeastern parts of the city should be doubled and that there should be an on-site inspection of the affected areas to ascertain the amount of compensation.

Commission chairman Dr Zafar