Vishnu Varma

The Navy, with the help of the Coast Guard, on Tuesday evacuated a Filipino sailor, who is suspected to have Covid, from a merchant vessel in the high seas off Kochi.

Three copies of Guru Granth Sahib were flown to India from Kabul along with Indian citizens and 46 Afghan nationals as part of the government's evacuation efforts from Afghanistan.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is in India on a two-day visit with an extensive agenda featuring the rapidly evolving security situation in Afghanistan, boosting Indo-Pacific engagement and ways to enhance COVID-19 response efforts.

An imported dose of Russia's Sputnik V vaccine against coronavirus will cost Rs. 995.40 in India, Dr Reddy's Laboratories, which is manufacturing the vaccine in India, said today.

A drug to treat coronavirus patients, developed by the DRDO, has been approved for emergency use by the country's top drugs controller as India battles the second wave of the pandemic that is killing thousands every day.

The army and the air force have pitched in to help India fight the battle against coronavirus as several parts of the country have been reporting dire shortage of essential medicines and oxygen supply.

Air India will be "100 per cent disinvested" and it "must find a new home", Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Puri said today on the disinvestment process of the debt-ridden national carrier. He said prospective buyers have been given 64 days to come with their bids.

Japan will tomorrow mark 10 years since the devastating earthquake and tsunami, followed by the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the worst natural disaster in the country's history. 19,000 people lost their lives and around a lakh had to flee their homes.

Indian and Chinese tanks were seen disengaging from the banks of Pangong lake area in eastern Ladakh where were deployed amid a standoff areas along the Line of Actual Control. Multiple videos and images released by the Indian Army today show the continued process of disengagement between Chinese and Indian forces on both banks of the glacial lake,...

More than 200 people remain missing a day after flash floods in Uttarakhand's Chamoli district. So far, 20 bodies have been recovered. The flash floods were caused by a glacier burst in the upper reaches of the Himalayas. The resulting avalanche and deluge in the in the Alaknanda river system washed away a hydroelectric station and five bridges. An...

A weapon-firing sequence was performed on Day 3 of the four-nation naval war games "Malabar 2020" in the Bay of Bengal, off Visakhapatnam.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Secretary of Defence Mark T Esper arrived inNew Delhi today for the third edition of the 2+2 talks with their Indian counterparts, Foreign Minister S Jaishankar and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh. The dialogues, which take place tomorrow,come eight months after US President Donald Trump's visit to India and day...

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, who is in Russia for the crucial Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) meeting, folded his hands and greeted top Russian officials with the traditional Indian "Namaste" as he landed in Moscow late last night.

The stand-off with China in eastern Ladakh is "surely the most serious situation after 1962", Foreign Minister Dr S Jaishankar has said, referring to the 1962 Indo-China war.

Former President Pranab Mukherjee, who underwent a surgery to remove a clot in his brain over two weeks ago, is being treated for lung infection, the army hospital in Delhi said today. "His renal parameters are slightly deranged since yesterday," a medical bulletin said. The 84-year-old, who tested positive for coronavirus, continues to be in deep ...

The Navy, with the help of the Coast Guard, on Tuesday evacuated a Filipino sailor, who is suspected to have Covid, from a merchant vessel in the high seas off Kochi.

Three copies of Guru Granth Sahib were flown to India from Kabul along with Indian citizens and 46 Afghan nationals as part of the government's evacuation efforts from Afghanistan.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is in India on a two-day visit with an extensive agenda featuring the rapidly evolving security situation in Afghanistan, boosting Indo-Pacific engagement and ways to enhance COVID-19 response efforts.

An imported dose of Russia's Sputnik V vaccine against coronavirus will cost Rs. 995.40 in India, Dr Reddy's Laboratories, which is manufacturing the vaccine in India, said today.

A drug to treat coronavirus patients, developed by the DRDO, has been approved for emergency use by the country's top drugs controller as India battles the second wave of the pandemic that is killing thousands every day.

The army and the air force have pitched in to help India fight the battle against coronavirus as several parts of the country have been reporting dire shortage of essential medicines and oxygen supply.

Air India will be "100 per cent disinvested" and it "must find a new home", Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Puri said today on the disinvestment process of the debt-ridden national carrier. He said prospective buyers have been given 64 days to come with their bids.

Japan will tomorrow mark 10 years since the devastating earthquake and tsunami, followed by the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the worst natural disaster in the country's history. 19,000 people lost their lives and around a lakh had to flee their homes.

Indian and Chinese tanks were seen disengaging from the banks of Pangong lake area in eastern Ladakh where were deployed amid a standoff areas along the Line of Actual Control. Multiple videos and images released by the Indian Army today show the continued process of disengagement between Chinese and Indian forces on both banks of the glacial lake,...

More than 200 people remain missing a day after flash floods in Uttarakhand's Chamoli district. So far, 20 bodies have been recovered. The flash floods were caused by a glacier burst in the upper reaches of the Himalayas. The resulting avalanche and deluge in the in the Alaknanda river system washed away a hydroelectric station and five bridges. An...

A weapon-firing sequence was performed on Day 3 of the four-nation naval war games "Malabar 2020" in the Bay of Bengal, off Visakhapatnam.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Secretary of Defence Mark T Esper arrived inNew Delhi today for the third edition of the 2+2 talks with their Indian counterparts, Foreign Minister S Jaishankar and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh. The dialogues, which take place tomorrow,come eight months after US President Donald Trump's visit to India and day...

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, who is in Russia for the crucial Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) meeting, folded his hands and greeted top Russian officials with the traditional Indian "Namaste" as he landed in Moscow late last night.

The stand-off with China in eastern Ladakh is "surely the most serious situation after 1962", Foreign Minister Dr S Jaishankar has said, referring to the 1962 Indo-China war.

Former President Pranab Mukherjee, who underwent a surgery to remove a clot in his brain over two weeks ago, is being treated for lung infection, the army hospital in Delhi said today. "His renal parameters are slightly deranged since yesterday," a medical bulletin said. The 84-year-old, who tested positive for coronavirus, continues to be in deep ...