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AFGHANISTAN. Helmand. In a roadside bomb blast in the Helmand province in the south of Afghanistan, nine people, including women and children, were killed,...

The bodies of 26 crew members of Accommodation Barge P-305, which sank, about 35 miles off Mumbai on May 17, were retrieved by the Indian Navy’s Search and Rescue (SAR) operations team, even as 49 crew members remained missing as of Wednesday evening.

Nearly 81 crew are reported missing, after a barge was sunk, about 35 nautical miles from Mumbai in the Mumbai Offshore Development Area, after a cyclone Tauktae ripped through it, even as the Indian Navy and Indian Coast Guard continued search and rescue operations (SAR) on Tuesday.

The Congress leader Rajeev Shankarrao Satav from Maharashtra passed away following the post-COVID-19 complications at a private hospital in Pune on Sunday, May 16, 2021, creating a void in the Congress.

At least eight people died, over 500 houses were damaged, hundreds of trees were uprooted and roads were blocked as gale-force winds, heavy rainfall, and high tidal waves swept the coastal belt of Kerala, Karnataka, Goa, and Maharashtra, as Cyclone Tauktae hurtled northwards towards Gujarat, forcing evacuation in low-lying areas on Sunday.

As anticipated the torrential rains and fierce winds, influenced by Cyclone Tauktae in the Arabian Sea, leaving a trail of destruction in coastal areas of Kerala, when hundreds of families living close to the sea had to abandon their homes and rush to relief camps set up by the state government in the face of massive sea-incursions on Saturday evening.

The cyclone “tauktae” forming over the Arabian sea is likely to affect many Indian states including Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Gujarat, Maharashtra, and Lakshadweep island and heavy to very heavy rainfall with gusty winds for the next two to three days, has been forecast by the India Meteorological Department (IMD).

While the instances of unreliable RT-PCR test reports have continued to surface from different parts of the country, one more instance of a woman traveller being certified as “negative”, in a very short spell, after she tested “positive” has come to light at the Mumbai airport.

ZIMBABWE: Mabvuku Tafara Constituency Junior Member of Parliamentary has approved an anti-drug abuse campaign to be held by community organisations in Mabvuku and Tafara...

The DCGI has accorded permission to conduct the Phase II-III clinical trial of Covaxin in the age group of two to 18-years-old to the Hyderabad based manufacturer Bharat Biotech International Ltd (BBIL). The trials will be conducted in 525 health volunteers