Sensex crashed over 1,000 points on Friday afternoon due to profit-booking and a decline in the share prices of blue-chip Reliance Industries, wiping out gains made in initial trading. Its sister index Nifty fell 275 points (1.22%) since yesterday's closing, hours after it reached its lifetime high of 22,793.90 points. …...Read More

Development and ecological balance must go hand in hand, the Supreme Court said. Development and ecological balance must go hand in hand, the Supreme Court said today while wondering why public interest litigations (PILs) are filed when infrastructure projects like highways are launched. The top court's observation came while dealing …...Read More

The previous peak power demand recorded was 8,000 MW or 8 Gigawatt. (Representational) The extreme summer heat in Delhi pushed its peak power demand to an all-time high of 8,302 MW or 8.3 Gigawatt on Wednesday afternoon, officials said. It is the first time in the history of the national …...Read More

The Supreme Court has agreed to expedite and hear procedural elements of two challenges to Texas' new anti-abortion law, which effectively bans most abortions after six weeks. One case is the Department of Justice's challenge against the Texas law, and the other is by an organization called Whole Women's Health. …...Read More

Sen. Joe Manchin said Thursday that he never considered leaving the Democratic Party as a tactic in negotiations over his party's spending plans, as Mother Jones reported this week, but that he instead discussed becoming an independent to avoid embarrassing other Democrats. "The only thing that was ever said that …...Read More

President Biden is traveling to his hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday to pitch his agenda amid reports that he has privately informed Democratic lawmakers that he will slash his proposed spending plan by nearly a trillion dollars in order to garner support from both progressives and moderate Democrats in …...Read More

U.S. Army veteran, former NFL player and Arkansas Senate primary candidate Jake Bequette said it is "shocking" to him that the Biden administration and Democrats have "tried to move on" from the "crisis" in Afghanistan, slamming officials for "attempting to legitimize a murderous regime." Bequette, during an interview with Fox …...Read More

Bharat Biotech's Covaxin was one of two Covid-19 vaccines available in India (File). The Indian Council of Medical Research, or ICMR, has distanced itself from a follow-up study by two Banaras Hindu University professors that said nearly a third of 926 individuals who received the India-made Covaxin COVID-19 vaccine reported …...Read More

A federal judge on Monday denied a last-minute bid by more than three dozen state employees, health care providers and school staff to temporarily stop the state’s COVID-19 vaccination mandate. U.S. District Judge Michael H. Simon rejected their motion for a temporary restraining order, marking the first federal judge’s ruling …...Read More

Demand for electricity in India expected to surge by a massive eight per cent this year With demand for electricity in India expected to surge by a massive eight per cent this year, the world's demand is rising at its fastest rate in years, driven by robust economic growth, intense …...Read More