News

British actor Paddy Considine has been roped in by the makers of 'Game of Thrones' prequel series, 'House of the Dragon', to play the role of King Viserys Targaryen.

In today’s wrap, Supreme Court to consider plea seeking court-monitored probe in Hathras rape case today, Donal Trump returns to White House after 4 days in hospital despite having Covid-19, Quad foreign ministers to meet in Tokyo, NDA may announce list o...

Countries involved in managing bluefin tuna fisheries are set to faceoff over a Japanese proposal to raise its catch quotas for the fish, highly prized for sushi and sashimi.

SpiceJet is the first Indian lowcost carrier to operate flights to the UK. The Delhi-London flight and the Mumbai-London flight will operate under the air bubble agreement with the UK.

A U.S. judge has ordered Iran to pay $1.45 billion to the family of a former FBI agent believed to have been kidnapped by the Islamic Republic while on an unauthorized CIA mission to an Iranian island in 2007.

Former Prime Minister Joseph Muscat resigned from Malta's parliament on Monday after a 90second speech in which he said he was proud of his achievements.

Southwest Airlines will cut pay for nonunion workers in January and says union workers must also accept less pay or face furloughs next year as the pandemic continues to hammer the airline business.

President Donald Trump on Monday left the mhospital where he has been treated for COVID19 and boarded a helicopter to return to a White House hit by a wave of infections and a campaign further shadowed by the pandemic four weeks before Election Day.

A couple hundred university students blocked roads and burned cars Monday as they clashed with police in Haitis capital while protesting the killing of a fellow student at a demonstration last week.

The country's largest lender State Bank of India is actively looking to hive off its digital platform Yono into a separate subsidiary, its chairman Rajnish Kumar said. Yono or You Only Need One App is the lender's integrated banking platform.

China said at a World Trade Organization meeting that restrictions by the United States on Chinese mobile applications TikTok and WeChat are in violation of the body's rules, a trade official said.

Activists of Left-affiliated, Dalit and women's organisations burnt the effigy of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath at Jantar Mantar on Monday over "injustice" allegedly meted out to the family of the Hathras victim. They also demanded Adityana...

Procurement of paddy, the main kharif crop, began from September 26 in Punjab and Haryana, while it started on September 28 in other states. Releasing the latest procurement data, the Union Food Ministry said paddy procurement for 2020-21 kharif season is...

Rajasthan recorded 14 more fatalities due to novel coronavirus on Monday, taking the COVID-19 death toll in the state to 1,559, according to a health department bulletin. The state also reported 2,165 new cases on the day. The total number of people in...

The Latest on President Donald Trump's health after his COVID19 diagnosis and hospitalization, and new infections of close aides and others (all times local):

The surcharge on luxury goods, which varies from 12% to 200%, is part of the national goods and services tax (GST) introduced in 2017, and was due to expire in 2022.