
Researchers have found that the risk of greater Covid-19 severity and death is higher in people with any obese body mass index (BMI). ...

hamima Begum, a British resident who ran away in 2015 to become an Islamic State (IS) jihadi bride, has won a legal battle to be allowed to return home to fight the government's decision to remove her UK citizenship, a media report said on Thursday....

India remains the third worst COVID-19 affected country in the world after the US and Brazil with over 9.68 lakh confirmed cases, the gap though between patients who have recovered and those still infected by the virus has almost quadrupled in the last one month. ...

The ongoing probe by Customs and the NIA in the now controversial gold smuggling case, in which even the office of Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan is allegedly involved, has revealed it was crowd funding -- the main source of funds in gold smuggling. ...

The Indian Army on Thursday stated that the disengagement process at the Line of Actual Control (LAC) with China is intricate and "requires constant verification". It also emphasised that India is taking the de-escalation process forward through "regular meetings at diplomatic and military level". ...

The Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader and former Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav and the Congress have taken a dig at Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar after the collapse of the Sattarghat bridge also called Ramjanki path on Gandak River in Gopalganj district. The bridge was inaugurated by Chief Minister Kumar on June 16....

The case of police atrocity on members of a Dalit family in Guna district has heated up the politics of Madhya Pradesh. The Congress has gone belligerent on the Shivraj Singh Chouhan government accusing it of persecuting Dalits and the poor, even as the administration in a strong move removed the IG of Gwalior division, the Guna Superintendent of Polic...

Indian consumer robot maker Milagrow on Thursday launched its 4 new humanoid robots - RoboDiCaprio, RoboJulia, RoboNano and RoboElf - which are specially designed to cater to hotels, hospitals, restaurants and corporate offices....

After facing political storms in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, the fear of losing MLAs is now haunting Congress leaders in Jharkhand. Senior Congress leader and Jharkhand minister Rameshwar Oraon said that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is trying to break the Congress MLAs. The BJP, however, denies such allegations, calling it a strategy of the Congre...

As many as 90.66 per cent -- 12,81,712 students of the total 14,13,687 -- were declared pass in the HSC examinations conducted by the Maharashtra State Secondary & Higher Secondary Education Board (MSSHSEB), top officials said here on Thursday....