Joe Biden wins 9 States in Super Tuesday race; Bloomberg drops out
Super Tuesday, when fourteen American States voted in the Democratic primaries, was a watershed moment in former Vice-President Joseph R.…
COVID-19 | India yet to share genome sequence data
China isolated the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) from a patient and shared the first whole genome sequence data of the virus…
Supreme Court asks High Court to list Delhi riots cases on March 6
The Supreme Court on Wednesday said it was “unjustified” on the part of the Delhi High Court to delay hearing…
Biden surges past Sanders on Super Tuesday as subcontinent polarisation touches their campaign
This combination of pictures created on March 4, 2020 shows Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden(L) and...Read MoreWASHINGTON: It will be…
Bloomberg drops out of US presidential race, endorses Joe Biden
LOS ANGELES: Billionaire Mike Bloomberg ended his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination on Wednesday and endorsed former Vice-President Joe…
Third person tests positive for new coronavirus in New York
New York's Yeshiva University said on Wednesday one of their students had tested positive for COVID-19, marking the third case…
Delhi violence: SC asks HC to hear plea on March 6, says long adjournment ‘not justified’
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court asked the Delhi High Court on Wednesday to hear on March 6 a plea seeking…
CAC to potential national selectors: What will be your call on Dhoni’s future?
CHRISTCHURCH: The Madan Lal-led Cricket Advisory Committee (CAC) had two common questions for the potential national selectors: "how will you…
Hate and violence enemies of development, will not benefit ‘Bharat Mata’: Rahul Gandhi
NEW DELHI: Leading a delegation of party leaders to the riot-hit northeast Delhi, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday said…
Ban on social networks removed in J-K, Mobile web speed still restricted to 2G, order reliable till Mar 17
In this Jan. 30, 2020, photo, Kashmiri journalists browse the internet on their mobile phones inside the media center set…
Delhi govt moves court seeking fresh date for execution of 4 Nirbhaya case convicts
Delhi gang rape convicts Akshay Thakur, Pawan Gupta (face covered), Vinay and Mukesh Singh (R) being taken to the High…
Govt authorizes changes to Companies Act
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman. File | Photo Credit: Nagara Gopal This is the second time the law is being…
6 members of Delhi patient’s family test positive for coronavirus
A medical worker helps a suspected coronavirus patient, both wearing protective suits, shift to an isolation ward of Safdarjung hospital…
Two samples from Hyderabad sent out to NIV Pune for further tests to confirm COVID-19
Police outside the isolated block of Gandhi Hospital where a COVID19 patient has been quarantined. | Photo Credit: Nagara Gopal…
Kuldeep Singh Sengar held guilty of culpable murder for death of Unnao rape victim’s dad
File photo of Unnao rape case convict Kuldeep Singh Sengar | Photo Credit: Rajeev Bhatt Special Court says the expelled…
Modi not to take part in Holi milan
With India reporting new cases of COVID-19 this week, the Union government and States have geared up to tackle the…
NRIs can acquire up to 100% equity in Air India: Prakash Javadekar
NEW DELHI: The government on Wednesday permitted NRIs (non-resident Indians) to own up to 100 per cent stake in disinvestment-bound…
US launches airstrike against Taliban to defend Afghan forces
Afghan Taliban militants and villagers attend a gathering as they celebrate the peace deal (AFP file photo)KABUL: The US launched…
Political ‘turmoil’ in Madhya Pradesh: How the numbers stack up
NEW DELHI: The Kaman Nath government in Madhya Pradesh was seen scrambling to secure its MLAs after eight members of…
28 confirmed coronavirus cases in India so far: Union health minister
NEW DELHI: There have been 28 confirmed cases of coronavirus in India, Union health minister Harsh Vardhan announced in a…
Joe Biden claims 9 Super Tuesday success, including Texas
WASHINGTON: A resurgent Joe Biden scored victories from Texas to Massachusetts on Super Tuesday, revitalizing a presidential bid that was…
Complete Lokpal bench to hear plaint against sitting or ex-PM
NEW DELHI: A full bench of Lokpal shall consider initiation of a corruption complaint against the Prime Minister or an…
8 Madhya Pradesh Congress MLAs held in hotel, declares party
two Ministers of the Kamal Nath government — Jitu Patwari and Jaivardhan Singh — are reported to have taken at…
No call from celebration leaders, states BJP worker whose factory was destroyed in riots
“Modi ji ka naara Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas, Sabka Vishwas tha, Sabka Vinash nahin... Badbolepan se halaat bigadte hain, yeh…
Hyderabad COVID-19 client questioned on contacts
Make hay: The price of face masks has doubled in the light of COVID-19 outbreak in Hyderabad on Tuesday. 45…
A.P. House resolution to seek 2010 format of NPR, states Jagan Mohan Reddy
Muslim leaders felicitating Chief Minister Y. S Jagan Mohan Reddy at his camp office at Tadepalli near Vijayawada on Tuesday.…
Jharkhand govt. announces farm loan waiver, unemployment dole
CM Hemant Soren and Finance Minister R. Oraon before the budget presentation in Ranchi on Tuesday. Free power and free…
Tahir Hussain: A Delhi councillor on police radar
On February 24, the name of a little-known AAP leader in Delhi started making headlines, first as a victim of…
Defence Ministry withdraws special needs pension order
The directive comes after a circular against tax exemption on disability pension for veterans The Ministry of Defence on Tuesday…
8. Does Apple owe you Rs 1,831 too?
8. Does Apple owe you Rs 1,831 too?Class apart: More than two years after its admitted to deliberately slowing down…
Indian cricket struck by slowdown? IPL lowers playoff cash prize by half
MUMBAI: Economic slowdown seems to have hit the mighty Indian cricket board (BCCI) too. Never the kind to penny-pinch, especially…
Coronavirus scare: 5 Delhi-NCR schools shut as precaution
A tourist wearing a protective facemask amid concerns of the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak walks in a market a...Read MoreNEW DELHI:…
Coronavirus outbreak live updates: 5 Delhi-NCR schools shut as precaution
TIMES OF INDIATHE TIMES OF INDIA | Mar 04, 2020, 10:20:16 ISTThe global death toll from the new coronavirus epidemic…
36 of Hyderabad techie’s contacts show symptoms of coronavirus
A security man stands in front of an isolation ward where people who returned from China are under observation...Read MoreHYDERABAD/…
Congress in firefighting mission as 8 MP alliance MLAs land in Manesar hotel
BHOPAL: Madhya Pradesh politics went into turmoil on Tuesday with post-midnight reports of eight Congress-alliance MLAs being cooped up in…
Wife of Major eliminated in Jammu and Kashmir operation after Pulwama to join Army
Nitika Kaul, widow of late Major Vibhuti Dhoundiyal, has got a letter from OTA, Chennai. She currently works w...Read MoreDEHRADUN:…
Girl and father held for aiding Pulwama bomber
NEW DELHI/ SRINAGAR: Days after the NIA arrested an overground Jaish worker who drove the Pulwama suicide bomber to the…
House logjam on, government offers debate after Holi
NEW DELHI: The logjam in Parliament does not show any sign of easing with the government seeking to schedule a…
Don’t panic, says PM Narendra Modi after review meet
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday reviewed the country’s preparedness to tackle a possible Covid-19 outbreak and told…
Alarms go off in Rajasthan as Italian tourist’s wife also tests positive
JAIPUR: An Italian tourist who had tested positive for the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) at a Jaipur hospital on Monday was…
UN body goes to Supreme Court on CAA; ‘internal matter’, says government
NEW DELHI: For the first time in India’s judicial history, a United Nations body — the UN High Commissioner for…
Bikers toss nation bombs at moving car on Anna Salai in Chennai
Pillion rider throws an explosive device at a vehicle on the opposite side of road. The targeted car escapes the…
Peak body on river connecting in pipeline
The Central government is working on the establishment of an exclusive body to implement projects for linking rivers. To be…
COVID-19 | World Bank, IMF to hold ‘virtual’ Spring Meetings
Among growing concerns globally and within the U.S. over COVID-19, the World Bank Group and International Monetary Fund announced on…
Growing numbers: On India’s COVID-19 preparedness
India cannot be complacent while dealing with the possible spread of COVID-19 On Monday and Tuesday, India reported three more…
Flow and ebb: On India’s tour of New Zealand
India had a rude jolt in New Zealand after doing well in the shortest format of cricket India’s recent cricket…
U.S. Presidential Election 2020 | U.S. votes in crucial primaries after three ex-rivals back Joe Biden
Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden. | Photo Credit: AP Klobuchar, Buttigieg and O’Rourke endorse the former V-P…
Black carbon levels surge at Himalayan glaciers
Black carbon concentrations near the Gangotri glacier rose 400 times in summer due to forest fires and stubble burning from…
COVID-19 | The SARS-CoV-2 is mutating, say scientists
Even as the world is grappling to contain the COVID-19 epidemic spreading like a wildfire across the world with more…
U.N. rights body to move Supreme Court on Citizenship Change Act
In an unprecedented and rare move, the Geneva-based Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has announced that…