New Delhi [India], June 26 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a meeting with top officials to review the progress of vaccination and COVID-19 situation in the country and expressed satisfaction at the rising speed of vaccinations this week.
Auckland [New Zealand], June 26 (ANI): New Zealand pacer Neil Wagner on Saturday said the now-retired wicketkeeper BJ Watling will be taking care of the World Test Championship (WTC) mace for the next two weeks.
Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala) [India], June 26 (ANI/NewsVoir): Following Prime Minister's call for 'Aatmanirbhar Bharat' during the early weeks of the lockdown in the country due to the COVID-19 outbreak, which urged the country to be #VocalAboutLocal to make India more self-reliant, consumers
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], June 26 (ANI): With schools in Telangana likely to reopen after several weeks of COVID-19 lockdown from July 1, makers and sellers of schoolbags in the state are hopeful that business will resume as usual and they be able to recover financial losses.
Washington [US], June 25 (ANI): American media personality and businesswoman Paris Hilton doesn't appear to be offended by the comments that Britney Spears made about her during the 'Toxic' singer's conservatorship hearing this week.
London [UK], June 25 (ANI/Xinhua): Britain has reported 35,204 new coronavirus cases of the Delta variant first identified in India in the latest week, marking a 46 percent increase, Public Health England (PHE) said Friday.
New York [US], June 25 (ANI): India along with France on Friday co-hosted a virtual event focussing on countering financing of terrorism in the post -COVID landscape at the second United Nations Counter-terrorism week.
Istanbul [Turkey], June 25 (ANI): Formula One on Friday announced that the Turkish Grand Prix will return to the calendar this season, with the race at Istanbul Park set to take place in early October. The Turkish Grand Prix will be staged on the weekend originally scheduled to host the Sing
New Delhi [India], June 25 (ANI): The Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genetics Consortium (INSACOG) in its weekly review meeting today will discuss the status and spread of Delta plus variant of COVID-19, said sources.
Geneva [Switzerland], June 25 (ANI/Sputnik): Africa is in the midst of a third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, as cases surge weekly and are on course to overtake the second wave at its peak if the trend continues, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported on Thursday.
New Delhi [India], June 24 (ANI): External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will embark on a two-day bilateral visit to Greece on Friday to hold talks with his Greek counterpart, according to Ministry of External Affairs (MEA).
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 24 (ANI): Pakistan's National Assembly which witnessed a brawl between the government and opposition parliamentarians last week during the federal budget discussion, has uncovered Pakistan's duplicity over the country's blasphemy laws that carry the death penalty.