New Delhi,  The National Anti-Profiteering Agency (NAA) has directed GST officials to ensure that the reduced tax rates on Covid-related items are passed on to the consumers.

In an office memorandum, NAA said that the supplies are required to commensurately reduce the prices of each of the supplies of go

United Nations,  Acting UN Undersecretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Ramesh Rajasingham has informed the Security Council on the dire economic situation in Syria, exacerbated by water shortages and the Covid-19 pandemic.

Daily life in Syria is becoming less and less affordable, he told the Council

Manila, Former Philippine President Benigno Simeon Aquino III died on Thursday morning at the age of 61, a top government official said.

Presidential spokesperson Harry Roque sent his condolences to the Aquino family, reports Xinhua news agency.

The Aquino family is yet to issue an official statemen

Tokyo,  The aging Mihama nuclear plant in Fukui prefecture on the Sea of Japan coast is back online, marking the first reactor to be operational beyond the government's mandated 40-year limit, put in place after the 2011 Fukushima nuclear crisis, local media reported on Thursday.

Kansai Electric Powe

Sydney,  Australia's most populous state of New South Wales (NSW) has continued to brush-off calls for a lockdown despite an increase in locally acquired Covid-19 cases.

The number of cases linked to a cluster in a suburb in Sydney's east rose to 36, the state's Health Department said on Thur

Kabul,  A total of 130 Taliban militants surrendered to the Afghan government in Herat province on Thursday, a local government spokesperson confirmed.

The former militants surrendered to the personnel of provincial directorate of National Directorate of Security (NDS), the country's national intelligence

New Delhi,  Amid ideological crackdowns on ethnic and religious minorities, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) gears up to celebrate the centenary of its birth on July 1 by unleashing a blizzard of propaganda material emphasising the continued relevance of the party and communism.

For President Xi Jinping

Washington,  The US National Institutes of Health has deleted gene sequences of early Covid-19 cases from a key scientific database at the request of Chinese researchers, claimed a Seattle-based virologist.

Jesse Bloom, a virologist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, described the

New Delhi,  Out of a number of deficiencies that bring health problems in general and to women in particular, iron deficiency is the leading one. Iron is necessary for producing haemoglobin that carries oxygen in the blood. When our metabolic system lacks enough iron, our body doesn't get the required energy. And it happens due to the l