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In reply to a question in the Lok Sabha, Minister of State for External Affairs V Muraleedharan said India has accorded the "highest priority" to getting permanent membership in an expanded UN Security Council (UNSC).

The World Health Organization has not changed its policy on aerosol transmission of the coronavirus, it said on Monday after U.S. health officials published draft new guidance by mistake warning that it can spread through airborne particles.

Americans' household wealth rebounded last quarter to a record high as the stock market quickly recovered from a pandemicinduced plunge in March. Yet the gains flowed mainly to the most affluent households even as tens of millions of people endured job lo...

Payal Ghosh has talked about being served a legal notice by Richa Chadha for 'falsely dragging' her name in a defamatory manner in her Me Too allegations against Anurag Kashyap.

As many as 814 people tested positive for COVID-19 in Uttarakhand on Monday, taking the state's case tally to 41,777, while 10 more people died, according to official data. Among the fresh cases, Dehradun district reported the maximum (309), followed by...

Wall Street's main indexes hit their lowest in nearly seven weeks on Monday as concerns about fresh coronavirusdriven lockdowns and the inability of Congress to agree on more fiscal stimulus raised fears about another hit to the domestic economy.

There are 5,388 candidates for the posts of sarpanch and 11,890 for posts of panch in the fray in the first phase of the Panchayat elections in Rajasthan. In the first phase, 1,002 gram panchayats are going to poll on September 28 for which nominations...

Italy's rightist bloc has won at least three of seven regions at stake in local elections, but League leader Matteo Salvini looked unlikely to end half a century of centreleft rule in Tuscany, exit polls said on Monday.

Italians turned out in droves to vote in regional elections and on a referendum on cutting the number of lawmakers by a third, despite the coronavirus pandemic and strict hygiene protocols at all polls.

A 10-feet-long python slithering across the Eastern Express Highway here caused a traffic jam on Monday morning, a police official said. According to the official, the reptile was spotted by motorists on a stretch of the highway at suburban Chunabhatti.

President Donald Trump says he expects to announce his pick for the Supreme Court on Friday or Saturday, after funeral services for Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Poland's ruling rightwing coalition should remain united, the leader of a junior partner in the alliance said on Monday, attempting to smooth tensions that threaten to wreck the government and trigger a snap election.

Every year, the month of September is observed as World Alzheimer’s Month and 21 September as World Alzheimer’s Day.

Nishabdham trailer shows Anushka Shetty as a deaf and mute artist who gets entangled in a criminal investigation when she unexpectedly witnesses a tragic incident.

"You" star Penn Badgley and singer Domino Kirke have become parents to their first child, a baby boy. Kirke, 36, took to Instagram on Sunday to reveal that the couple welcomed the little one on August 11.

Four people from Louisiana were killed when their singleengine airplane crashed in a Texas pasture while attempting an emergency landing, authorities said.