Oil prices hit their highest level in nearly a year on Friday, gaining 8% on the week, supported by Saudi Arabia's pledge to cut output and strong gains in major equity markets.
Moderna Inc is on track to deliver between 600 million and 1 billion doses of its COVID19 vaccine this year, Chief Executive Stephane Bancel said on Thursday.
Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen on Wednesday faced opposition calls to resign after her agriculture minister stepped down over an illegal order by the government to cull the country's farmed mink.
The comments come close on the heels of the alleged rape and murder of a Dalit girl in Hathras, over which the Congress has launched a major political offensive against the BJP in Uttar Pradesh.
A South African corruption inquiry will issue a summons for former president Jacob Zuma to appear to give evidence next month, the judge chairing the proceedings said on Friday.
The Transport Department of the Delhi government said that a number of grievances have been recently received due to non-checking of their vehicles at the pollution checking centres.
Actress Tia Bajpai took to Instagram to share her voluntary drug test reports. She urged her fellow artists to do the same to not be generalised as drug addicts.
India's table tennis coach Yin Wei was planning to return to China after Covid-19 cases in the India spiked, however the growing border tension along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) and the anti-China sentiment made him leave immediately.
A 48yearold Oregon man said he acted in self defense during the fatal shooting of a supporter of a rightwing group in Portland as he thought he and a friend would be stabbed, Vice News reported on Thursday.
Gangs of Filmistan producer Preeti Simones said that actress Shilpa Shinde never told them that she does not want to perform with comedian Sunil Grover.
Karan Mehra, best known for playing Naitik in Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai, talks about how his life changed after becoming a father.
Petrol price in Delhi was hiked to Rs 73.00 per litre from 72.46, while diesel rates were increased to Rs 71.17 a litre from Rs 70.59, according to a price notification of state oil marketing companies.
Gas leaked from a chemical plant in Visakhapatnam in the early hours of Thursday and quickly spread to villages in a five-kilometre radius, killing at least 11 people and impacting about 1,000.
Congress spokesperson Jaiveer Shergill said the reduction in interest rates on small savings is irrational, illogical and ill-timed as it has come at a time when the people are already facing hardship due to the lockdown and the economic recession.
oogle’s Opinion Rewards app, which exchanges responses to surveys from Google and its clients for app store credit, queried users about whether anyone in their household has “a fever of at least 100 degrees along with a sore throat or a cough”.
