The chief minister made this request during his telephonic conversation with Modi. “He sought cooperation of the Union government for the efforts taken by the new government to prevent the Covid spread. He also assured the support of the state government on this,” a government release said.

A potential cancer drug repurposed for Covid-19 treatment -- 2-deoxy-D-glucose (2-DG) – has received the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) nod for emergency use as adjunct therapy for hospitalized moderate to severe Covid-19 patients. The anti-Covid-19 therapeutic application of the drug was..

Controversy over next king, a largely ceremonial role but one with great significance for South Africa and its 12 million Zulu people, arose after death in March...

President Donald Trump's Department of Justice secretly obtained phone records of multiple Washington Post reporters, the newspaper...

Sadiq Khan is set to win a second term as London mayor, after opening up a five-point lead over rival Shaun Bailey.

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Some have claimed she’s indulging a forbidden romance. More likely, loneliness compels her to seek company at Rio...

Reduced demand comes as Joe Biden has announced a plan to vaccinate 70% of US adults by the Fourth of July

Rail disruption is expected to continue throughout the weekend after services were cancelled across the country due to cracks in some trains.

The results of the Scottish election could give pro-independence parties a majority in Scotland's parliament, potentially putting the country on a path to...

Another Scottish independence referendum is the “will of the country”, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said in a victory speech.

The SNP won a clean sweep of the remaining Edinburgh constituencies following a second day of counting for the Holyrood election, as victorious candidates...

A bomb exploded near a girls' school in a majority Shiite district of west Kabul on Saturday, killing at least 30 people, many of them young pupils between 11...

The family of George Floyd has welcomed the indictment of four ex-police officers on US civil rights charges in relation to Floyd's death. (May 8)  

Nicola Sturgeon has issued a warning to Boris Johnson over a second independence referendum, declaring the prime minister will be "picking a fight with the...

The Conservatives have won the West Midlands mayoral election, securing incumbent Andy Street another four years in power.

Julie E. “Tawny” Kitaen, who famously appeared in several music videos for the rock group Whitesnake in the ‘80s, has died. The Orange...

Newspaper ‘deeply troubled’ by revelation that records were secretly obtained over three months in 2017

LONDON (AP) — Scotland's governing Scottish National Party was on course Saturday to win its fourth straight parliamentary election and...

Hundreds of people joined former defence minister Johnny Mercer in a London march to support veterans.

There are currently “no plans” for talks between the SNP and Scottish Greens on a possible coalition, a Greens source has told the PA news agency.

Tawny Kitaen, who starred with Tom Hanks in the movie Bachelor Party and in several of the '80s metal band Whitsnake's music videos, has died. She was 59. The...

DUP leadership contender Sir Jeffrey Donaldson has circulated documents to the party’s electoral college making his pitch for their support.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has a clear pathway to running for president in 2024, emerging from the coronavirus pandemic as the most...

Evidence of nine Neanderthals found in Italian cave