The Ministry of Earth Sciences' monitoring agency, SAFAR, said the share of stubble burning in Delhi's PM2.5 pollution was 36 per cent on Thursday -- the maximum so far this season.
Brazil's government on Tuesday outlined a longterm roadmap for the economy, based on three scenarios of economic and fiscal reforms that could lift gross domestic product per capita by as much as 37% over the next decade.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday that he's scheduling a vote regarding a GOP COVID19 relief bill for later this month, saying aid to hardhit businesses shouldn't be held up by gridlock involving other aid proposals.
President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett signed on to a second "right to life advertisement against the landmark Roe vs. Wade decision, according to supplemental material filed late Friday with the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Mumbai Police on Tuesday shared a meme featuring Bollywood actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui to spread Covid awareness.
It is time the country starts fighting the "rape epidemic", Bollywood actor Swara Bhaskar said on Friday as she joined a protest here at Jantar Mantar to demand justice for the Hathras gang-rape and murder victim. "People from different groups are here,...
The British government is mulling tougher restrictions in England to tackle a swiftly accelerating second wave of the novel coronavirus outbreak, possibly outlawing more interhousehold socialising, a junior health minister said on Monday.
The researchers noted that airborne transmission by respiratory aerosol droplets produced during coughing and sneezing is the dominant mode of spreading for infectious diseases such as COVID-19.
The VC said that Bolpur was just a discrete little town in colonial Bengal and it was 'outsider' Tagore and his colleagues who came from Kolkata and helped set up Visva Bharati there.
A study published in the journal Statistics Applications found the current R-value for Delhi is 0.66 while it is 0.81 for Mumbai and 0.86 for Chennai, lower than the national average of 1.16.
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer oversaw Manchester United's worst start to a top-flight campaign in 30 years but finished qualifying for Champions League.
For the first time in living memory on Thursday diesel became costlier than petrol in the national capital due to a sharp increase in the Value Added Tax (VAT) by the Delhi government.
The micro, small and medium enterprise (MSME) sector will have to face a sharper decline in revenues of up to 21 per cent, while operating profit margins will narrow to 4-5 per cent, said the research wing of domestic ratings agency Crisil.
A Congress leader said the chief minister was in constant touch with NCP chief Sharad Pawar which gave the impression that they were being left out.
Ahmedabad district reported 234 fresh novel coronavirus cases and nine deaths in the last 24 hours, according to officials.