London: Coronavirus variants first detected in India risk becoming the UK’s second most dominant within weeks, experts have warned after total cases rose to 400. Public Health England (PHE) said that there was “no evidence of widespread community transmission or that these variants cause more severe

Mumbai: Indian police seized over seven kilogrammes (15.4 pounds) of natural uranium and arrested two men in the western Maharashtra state for “illegally possessing” the highly radioactive substance, an authority said. According to the anti-terrorism squad in Maharashtra, the confiscated material is worth around $2.9 million

Mumbai: Around 230 million Indians fell into poverty due to the pandemic last year with young people and women the hardest hit, and the current second wave threatens to make matters even worse, a new study has said. India’s stringent months-long lockdown from last March put

London: Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservatives scored a stunning election victory in an opposition stronghold Friday, after Britain held its first major ballot box test since Brexit and the coronavirus crisis. The "Super Thursday" regional and local elections could reshape the UK as pro-independence forces in

Washington: US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says there is no plan at this point to shoot down the remnants of a large Chinese rocket expected to plunge back through the atmosphere this weekend. The Long March 5B rocket blasted off from China’s Hainan island on April

New Delhi: India has seen demand for oxygen jump “seven-fold” as the country set a new world record for daily COVID-19 cases on Thursday. By the numbers: India’s health ministry reported 412,262 new infections, taking the official tally past 21 million, and 3,980 deaths from the

Colombo: Sri Lanka has announced that all arrivals from India will be banned with immediate effect due to the record rise in COVID-19 cases in India. Several countries like the UK, the UAE, Australia and Singapore have already banned travellers from India. Sri Lanka’s Civil Aviation

Doha: Qatar s finance minister Ali Shareef al-Emadi has been arrested over alleged abuse of power and misuse of public funds, state media said. The official Qatar News Agency later reported that the country s ruler, Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani, had issued a decree

New Delhi: Hopes that India s rampaging second wave of COVID-19 is peaking were set back as record daily infections and deaths were reported and as the virus spread from cities to villages that were poorly equipped to cope. Government modelling had forecast a peak by