The COVID-19 pandemic will disproportionately affect women and push 47 million more women and girls into extreme poverty by 2021, reversing decades of progress to lift this demographic above the poverty line, according to new data released by the UN.
The Trump administration said Tuesday that it will not work with an international cooperative effort to develop and distribute a COVID-19 vaccine because it does not want to be constrained by multilateral groups like the World Health Organization.
Death toll in Mundathikode fireworks explosion rises to 16
Air India flight from Mumbai makes 'priority' landing in Bhopal after snag; return leg cancelled
Two children drown in farm pond in Karnataka
Karnataka Speaker Khader finishes fourth in Dirt Prix event
Pranavananda Swamiji urges Cong to make Shivakumar Karnataka CM
Shivakumar visits ailing Minister Sudhakar at KIMS hospital
Mohsin's fifer helps LSG restrict KKR to 155/7 despite Rinku's 83
Body of Bihar Police personnel found hanging in barracks in Patna
Mumbai-Pune Expressway ‘missing link’ to open on May 1; will improve travel safety: Shinde
Two killed, one injured in bike-SUV collision in UP's Banda
Bengal's TMC govt not run from state secretariat, but by party-sheltered criminals: Modi
Tigress found dead in Chandrapur after attacking forest guard
Trump, Pompeo mourn death of Pranab Mukherjee
Pranab Mukherjee believed deeply in the importance of India and the US tackling global challenges together, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has said, condoling the death of the former president.
The head of the World Health Organization is warning that opening up societies too quickly amid the coronavirus pandemic is a recipe for disaster.
Pritam Singh, Singapore's Indian-origin politician scripted history on Monday when the city-state's Parliament conferred the duties and privileges to him as the country's first Leader of the Opposition.
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases globally has topped 25 million. That's according to a tally kept by Johns Hopkins University. The US leads the count with 5.9 million cases, followed by Brazil with 3.8 million and India with 3.5 million.
One person was shot and killed late Saturday in Portland, Oregon, as a large caravan of President Donald Trump supporters and Black Lives Matter protesters clashed in the streets, police said.
Thousands of Israelis demonstrated Saturday in Jerusalem in a continuation of summer-long weekend rallies demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who faces a corruption trial and accusations of mishandling the coronavirus crisis.
Twenty-nine people were killed after a village restaurant collapsed Saturday in north China's Shanxi Province, local authorities said Sunday.
