Gulf News

The global COVID-19 spotlight is on the Indian variant of coronavirus. Named B.1.617, the variant has spread through much of India, unleash...

Washington: Wednesday’s vote by House Republicans over ousting anti-Trump conservative Liz Cheney from her leadership role will almost cert...

London: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s personal mobile phone number has been on the internet for 15 years, media reports said Frida...

Automobile registrations across India dropped by 32 per cent last month as compared to April 2019 with passenger vehicles showing a decline...

Jakarta: Indonesia has sentenced scores of prisoners to death over Zoom and other video apps during the pandemic in what critics say is an...

Washington: The contrast could hardly be sharper.In much of the developed world, vaccine orders are soaring into the billions of doses, CO...

So, the wait goes on. Manchester City didn’t quite blow their Premier League title bid but they made a bit of a shambles of it as they mess...

Islamabad: Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly and former Chief Minister of the Punjab Shahbaz Sharif was offloaded from a Do...

Washington: President Joe Biden, confronting lagging vaccinations that threaten his promise of near normalcy by July 4, Tuesday overhauled...

New Delhi / Mumbai: India on Monday reported more than 300,000 new coronavirus cases for a 12th straight day to take its overall caseload t...

New Delhi: India reported more than 400,000 new infections on Saturday. The country now accounts for nearly half of the world's new known c...

Islamabad: Pakistan on Saturday began a nine-day shutdown affecting travel and tourist hotspots in a bid to prevent a surge in COVID-19 cas...

Bengaluru: Indian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi called for a nationwide lockdown as the country’s tally of coronavirus infections surged p...

Cairo: Bahrain has said it will send medical aid to Pakistan in a gesture of solidarity in fighting COVID-19.The Bahraini government’s aid...

Karachi: A coronavirus variant first discovered in the United Kingdom now accounts for up to 70 per cent of COVID-19 infections across Paki...

Kolkata: In less than 24 hours from now, the EVMs (electronic voting machines) will be opened at counting centres all across West Bengal to...

Dubai: Colombo’s R Premadasa Stadium will host all the matches in India’s upcoming limited-overs series against Sri Lanka. Indian cricket b...

Islamabad: A 19-year-old has become the youngest Pakistani to climb the world’s highest peak Mount Everest on Tuesday.Shehroze Kashif, who...

Kathmandu: Nepali climber Kami Rita Sherpa on Friday reached the summit of Mount Everest for the 25th time, breaking his own record for the...

Beijing: China’s population is growing at its slowest pace since the 1960s, with falling births and a greying workforce presenting the Comm...

New Delhi: India’s Federal Health Ministry has issued revised guidelines for home isolation for patients who have mild COVID-19 symptoms or...

New York: Marc Johnson saw trouble in the water. Johnson, a virus expert at the University of Missouri, had spent much of 2020 studying sew...

Geneva: The World Health Organziation said on Monday that the B.1.617 variant first identified in India last year was being classified as a...

Karachi: Provincial ministers in Sindh have been tasked with visiting different places of Karachi to personally supervise implementation of...

Berlin: Germany is to make Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine available to all adults, Health Minister Jens Spahn said on Monday, adding...