Washington,  A new study by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has suggested that Covid-19 cases were detected in the country earlier than previously reported.

NIH researchers analysed more than 24,000 stored blood samples from all 50 US states between January 2 and March 18, 2020, Xinhua news ag

Phuket,  About 63 per cent of residents in Phuket have received their first shot of a Covid-19 vaccine as the largest resort island of Thailand readies to reopen to inoculated foreign visitors from July 1, a senior government official said on Thursday.

Disease Control Department Director General Opas Kan

Kabul,  At least 23 members of an Afghan Armys special unit were killed during fierce clash with the Taliban in the northern province of Faryab, a security official said on Thursday.

The clash took place in Dawlat Abad district after the commandos and local troops launched a clearing operation, TOLO News

New Delhi,  The Employee Federation of Indian Ordnance Factories rejected the governments decision to create seven corporations stating that it will completely destroy the fundamental concepts of strategic management by vertical integration and war insurance and reserve "due to its misguided ideology".

Lucknow,  Self-help groups that are making solar lights, have now lit up the community toilet of Paraunkh, the native village of President Ram Nath Kovind in Kanpur Dehat.

This is the second toilet in the state which has been illuminated with solar energy by the women of Self Help groups.

Mumbai,  In a major development, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) raided and arrested former encounter specialist Pradeep Sharma in connection with the ongoing probe into the cases of SUV planting and businessman Mansukh Hiran murder, here on Thursday morning.

Early this morning, an NIA team along

Kanpur,  The National Sugar Institute (NSI) in Kanpur has come out with various bakery and confectionery products using liquid or powdered jaggery (gur), which is said to be a healthier option to sugar.

Jaggery or gur is a traditional sweetener in India which is preferred to the white sugar because of it

Panaji,  Goa is in crisis and the state needs to be saved from the incumbent Pramod Sawant-led government and its horrible administration, All India Congress Committee in-charge of Goa Dinesh Gundu Rao has said.

Rao arrived in Goa on Wednesday for a four-day tour of the state, during which he is expected

New Delhi,  The three rebel MLAs of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) who formed Punjab Ekta Party, on Thursday, met Rahul Gandhi in Delhi and announced the merger of their outfit with the Congress.

The MLAs who met Rahul Gandhi include former Leader of Opposition (Punjab) Sardar Sukhpal Singh Khair

Patna,   Rohtas District Magistrate Dharmendra Kumar has written to the principal secretary of the urban development department in Bihar to transfer a 'lazy' officer to another district.

The officer was identified as Abhishek Anand, an executive officer in the Municipal Corp