As per the tradition, the finance minister holds customary meeting with the board members of the RBI and the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) after Budget presentation every year.

Serum Institute of India CEO Adar Poonawalla had asked if the government had Rs 80,000 crore available over the next one year to buy and distribute the shots.

The announcement, which comes a day after Goa reported its highest spike in Covid-19 cases, means that patients with extreme co-morbid conditions will no longer be sent to Covid hospitals in south Goa.

Based on a complaint by his father Kalyan Singh, an FIR was registered against Manjeet's cousins Kapil and Manoj, their mother Puniya and Manoj’s wife Dolly at the Nahtaur police station, said a police officer.

Germany saw over almost ten attacks a day against individual refugees and shelters in 2016, according to interior ministry figures, which left 560 people injured, 43 of them children.

How Iraq came together in the fight against Islamic State.

Planes flattened buildings as more than 250,000 civilians remain trapped in the besieged opposition sector.

Violence shook Turkey’s two main cities for several hours overnight on July 15, as an armed faction which tried to seize power blocked a bridge in Istanbul and strafed the headquarters of Turkish intelligence and parliament in Ankara.

Akhond’s friends said they were told that she was hacked to death because she was not wearing a hijab, and refused to recite from the Quran when asked to do so.

A new wave of violence has hit Bangladesh which is fuelled by terrorists owing allegiance to what appears to be a blurred mix of organisations.

Compiled by Jamie Mullick BANGLADESH: With an increasing number of attacks on non-Muslims and secular activists, Bangladesh last week arrested 11,600 people after announcing a new initiative against Islamic extremism within its borders. But only 2 per cent of those detained — just 177 people — are actually accused of dangerous radicalism, and none are […]

Around 77 people were killed by three bombings in Baghdad last Tuesday.

Three suicide bombings claimed by Islamic State across Baghdad killed at least 80 people last Wednesday, Iraqi police and hospital sources said, in the deadliest attacks in the Iraqi capital this year.

The minutes of the meeting added that “the memorial will have audio-visuals in minimum three languages, namely Tamil, Hindi and English”.

A look at the kind of people who have been gravitating towards Islamic State and conducting and planning attacks on its behalf across the world.

A look at the truth behind Kim Jong Un’s claims about successfully testing a Hydrogen bomb.

The attacks in Paris and California have many wondering how seemingly ordinary people, many from prosperous Western countries, become radicalised.

They were artists, students, music lovers, parents and newlyweds. The victims of the 13/11 attacks in Paris had varied backgrounds and interests.

Two powerful bombs exploded at a peace rally near the main train station in Ankara, killing at least 95 people and wounding 246 others.

Qassem Soleimani put the map of Syria on the table. The Russians were very alarmed, and felt matters were in steep decline and that there were real dangers to the regime.

Nine people were killed and 33 wounded last Sunday in a bomb attack at a football match in Paktika province. The government responded a day later with airstrikes that killed 85 IS men.

The Turkish government continued to grapple with Kurdish militants who killed two police officers in a car bomb attack in the country’s southeast last Sunday.

Kurdish nationalism, Islamic State and conflicts in Syria and Iraq — look who’s caught in the middle.

Pakistan: A senior journalist was shot dead last Wednesday by gunmen outside his house in Karachi, a day after a similar attack by gunmen in the city resulted in the death of a technician of a media house. Forty-two-year-old Aftab Alam, who had been associated with different channels including Geo News and Samaa TV, was […]