COVID-19 effect on healthcare may kill 6,000 kids daily: UNICEF

The United Nations' children agency has warned that an additional 6,000 children could die daily from preventable causes over the next six months as the COVID-19 pandemic weakens the health systems......

Boris Johnson has done Modi a favour

'We don't need to hinge India-UK relations on shared hostility toward China,' observes Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar. IMAGE: Prime Minister Narendra Damodardas Modi with Britain's Prime Minister......

COVID-19 vaccine at least a year away, say scientists

Vaccine design is still an empirical, trial and error process and a preventive against COVID-19 could be at least a year away, say scientists as information on developments in therapeutics to......

India waits for Sharon with defence list

During Israel Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's visit, which begins onSeptember 8, India will discuss with him the sale of Arrow missile systems and present a list of military equipment.No defence......

India's per capita income crosses Rs 50,000 for first time in 2010-11

Reflecting growing prosperity, India's per capita income grew by 15.6 per cent to Rs 53,331 per annum in 2010-11, crossing the half-a-lakh rupees mark for the first time, according to government......

India's per capita income crosses Rs 50,000 for first time in 2010-11

Reflecting growing prosperity, India's per capita income grew by 15.6 per cent to Rs 53,331 per annum in 2010-11, crossing the half-a-lakh rupees mark for the first time, according to government......

GDP to boom @ 8.5%: govt

The government on Monday revised the economic growth to 8.5 per cent for 2003-04 from 8.2 per cent estimated earlier, mainly due to a bumper agricultural growth of 9.6 per cent. The high GDP growth......

Govt pegs GDP growth at 6.9%

Lower agricultural performance in the current financial year is likely to pull the economic growth down to 6.9 per cent from 8.5 per cent in the last financial year. According to Advance Estimates......

My Daughter Mithali Raj

'From the beginning (I have told her) "Whatever it may be -- you are losing or winning -- on the ground you're not going to cry!" She never cried.''"I don't want you to project that you are a......

China's cracking cricket

Professional sports look at the promise of the Chinese market as dreamily as any other industry. Yao Ming, the Houston Rockets' star center, has given America's National Basketball Association an......