The order by the Supreme Court means telecom companies, including Vodafone Idea and Bharti Airtel, will have to immediately clear the pending AGR dues, which amount to nearly Rs 1.47 lakh crore.

While Turkey and Pakistan have historically had good relations, Ankara has teamed up in recent months with Beijing and Islamabad against India at international forums and on issues such as Kashmir and terror-financing by Pakistan

Stopping smoking, at any age, is important and rapidly reduces risk of getting lung cancer.

Two proposals are for trips to Venus, and one each is for Jupiter’s moon Io and Neptune’s moon Triton.

Indian scientists on a South African vessel are in Antarctica, midway through an expedition across the Southern Ocean. What are they studying, what are its implications for world climate and Indian monsoon?

The Home Ministry said India has granted citizenship to 15,012 individuals from Bangladesh between 2015 and 2019.

Last week, a Dutch district court ruled against an identification mechanism called SyRI (System Risk Indicator), because of data privacy and human rights concerns.

Some 24 countries apart from China have registered cases of the coronavirus, now officially named Covid-19. None of them are in Africa, despite the increasingly tight links between the two regions.

Born in the UK to a general practitioner father and pharmacist mother, Sunak made news in India upon his marriage to Akshata Murthy, the daughter of Infosys co-founder N R Narayana Murthy and author Sudha Murthy.

After Manchester City's two-year-long ban from all UEFA competitions, will the club appeal the ruling and how strong is their case? What happens to Pep Guardiola? How will the Premier League react?

Under the travel ban, Sri Lanka’s Commander of the Army and Chief of Defence Staff, Shavendra Silva and his immediate family are ineligible to enter the US.

According to Pakistan's new rules for social media platforms, companies will need to act within 24 hours to remove, suspend or disable access to online content “which is in contravention to any provision of the Act”.

The main aim of the committee is to advise the government on various dynamics of the sector and trade. The GR talks about how this committee will take stock of the situation and advise steps, which will help both farmers and consumers.

The social media challenge, popularised on short-form video-sharing app TikTok, requires three participants standing side by side with two of them knocking the third off balance while they jump together in the air

Although this spacecraft was assembled on U.S. soil, it will not be exploring the red planet for NASA. Hope is instead an effort by the United Arab Emirates, an oil-rich country smaller than Maine and one that has never sent anything into the solar system.

The bright side for Indian Railways is that it doesn't have to suffer the losses associated with running these trains thanks to under-recovery of cost due to low fares and its own hefty overheads. The lease on its coaches is also taken care of.

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The CMS is an environmental treaty of the UN that provides a global platform for the conservation and sustainable use of migratory animals and their habitats.

The number of deaths of individuals who died while cleaning septic and sewer tanks, as tabled by the Ministry, add up to 376 between 2015 and 2019. The number peaked last year at 110.

In India, January 2020 was the second warmest since 1919 in terms of average minimum temperatures, according to India Meteorological Department (IMD) data dating back to 1901.

WWI helmet in France; in new tests, it outperforms modern helmets in protection from overhead blasts.