Investors managing around $20 trillion in assets on Tuesday called on the heaviest corporate emitters of greenhouse gases to set sciencebased targets on the way to net zero carbon emissions by midcentury.
Assam on Sunday reported its lowest COVID-19 figures in four months -- 396 fresh cases and five deaths -- Minister for Health and Family Welfare Himanta Biswa Sarma said. The state's coronavirus tally rose to 1,93,783 and the death toll mounted to 816 w...
This year’s Nobel Prize for different categories was announced yesterday. On this occasion, let’s revisit the time when an Indian received the Nobel Prize for the first time.
The worldwide death toll from the coronavirus eclipsed 1 million on Tuesday, nine months into a crisis that has devastated the global economy, tested world leaders resolve, pitted science against politics and forced multitudes to change the way they live,...
The agency issued a provisional order for attaching the property — Apartment1, 77 South Audley Street, London — under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).
France reported 13,215 new confirmed coronavirus cases over the past 24 hours, a new record since the start of the epidemic, while the daily death toll jumped to a fourmonth high.
European Union leaders are putting on a show of support Wednesday for people protesting in Belarus. Emergency talks will aim to highlight their concern about the contested presidential election and ratchet up pressure on officials linked to the security c...
A German woman appears to have killed her fouryearold twin girls near the Swiss village of Utikon and then committed suicide, Zurich authorities said Monday.
As polls show Texans increasingly frustrated with President Donald Trump's response amid a massive resurgence in coronavirus cases, Democrats say they have a real chance to turn a longheld dream into reality: winning the state's presidential contest for t...
Japanese automakers' China sales grew by more than 10% from a year earlier in July as the world's biggest auto market sustained its recovery.
Pop star Selena Gomez took a break from social media because she felt insensitive while posting anything too joyful.
Imtiaz Ali, who directed Sanjana Sanghi in Rockstar took to Instagram to wish her luck for her upcoming film Dil Bechara.
The special finance scheme is announced in the context of its continuous efforts to support the frontline warriors of the pandemic in India, Yamaha Motor India said in a statement.
The NCS said quake occurred at 12:58 pm at a depth of 5 km. Since April 12, the Delhi-NCR has recorded 18 quakes. Of these 8 have taken place in Rohtak.
Militants fired upon a police party near Yaripora Chowk in the south Kashmir district in the afternoon, a police official said.