More than 1.9 million children in India lost a parent or caregiver due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a modelling study of 20 countries published in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health journal.
Russia pressed its invasion of Ukraine to the outskirts of the capital Friday after unleashing airstrikes on cities and military bases and sending in troops and tanks from three sides in an attack that could rewrite the global post-Cold War security order.
A strong, shallow earthquake off Indonesia's coast Friday panicked people in Sumatra island and neighboring Malaysia and Singapore, damaged buildings and injured several people.
A three-year-old boy, who had fallen into an over 200-feet deep borewell at a village in Madhya Pradesh's Umaria district, was pulled out after more than 16 hours of efforts, but was declared dead by doctors, an official said on Friday.
In an apparent message to countries which are not standing by its side or are supporting Moscow, US President Joe Biden has said that any nation that countenances Russia's naked aggression" and a "totally unjustifiable" war against Ukraine will be stained by association.
The CBI has arrested former Group Operating Officer of National Stock Exchange Anand Subramanian after expanding its three-year probe into the co-location scam in the exchange in view of "fresh facts" emerging in a damning Sebi report, officials said on Friday.
Nearly 400 Indian students in Ukraine's Sumy city bordering Russia have taken shelter in a basement after Russian forces took control of it and have appealed to the government of India to evacuate them.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said 137 civilians and military personnel have been killed so far in the Russian invasion of his country.
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the Ukraine conflict and appealed for immediate cessation of violence as well as concerted efforts from all sides to return to the path of diplomatic negotiations.
Mangaluru: Local police have registered a case against an unidentified man for allegedly posing as Flipkart Customer Care agent and duping a customer for nearly 50,000 rupees after the latter called Flipkart Customer Care to return his product.
