Beijing: China successfully launched its first Mars probe on Thursday from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in the southern island province of Hainan, official media here reported.
United Nations: World leaders will submit pre-recorded video statements for the United Nations General Assembly session in September, the 193-member organisation has decided, as heads of state and government will not be physically attending the annual gathering due to the coronavirus pandemic and the high-level session goes virtual for the first time in the UN's 75-year history.
NIA registers case to probe recovery of 79 crude bombs in poll-bound West Bengal
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
California: Airlines are taking extreme measures to survive the pandemic, with Asiana Airlines Inc. flying the world's biggest commercial plane more than 20 times, going nowhere and carrying no passengers, just to keep trainee pilots certified.
Washington: Hackers working with the Chinese government targeted firms developing vaccines for the coronavirus and stole hundreds of millions of dollars worth of intellectual property and trade secrets from companies across the world, the Justice Department said Tuesday as it announced criminal charges.
Beijing: A phase II clinical trial of a COVID-19 vaccine candidate, conducted in China, has found that it is safe and induces an immune response, a study published in The Lancet says.
Brussels: Weary but relieved, European Union leaders finally clinched a deal on an unprecedented 1.8 trillion-euro (2.1 trillion) budget and coronavirus recovery fund early Tuesday, somehow finding unity after four days and nights of fighting and wrangling over money and power in one of their longest summits ever.
Washington: The US government has imposed trade sanctions on 11 companies it says are implicated in human rights abuses in China's Muslim northwestern region of Xinjiang.
Washington: Democrat Joe Biden urged Muslim Americans on Monday to join him in the fight to defeat President Donald Trump as he addressed an online summit hosted by the advocacy organisation Emgage Action to mobilise Muslim voters ahead of the presidential election.
London: British officials say they have signed a deal to buy 90 million doses of experimental coronavirus vaccines being developed by the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer and others.
London: A UK-based biotech company on Monday declared positive "breakthrough" results from a clinical trial of a protein-based treatment for COVID-19, which "greatly" reduced patients requiring intensive care.
