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Hyderabad: Bharat Biotech International Ltd on Friday confirmed that it has signed an agreement with Brazil for supply of 20 million doses of Covaxin, India's first indigenous vaccine for Covid-19. The Hyderabad-based company signed an…

United Nations: Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and General Assembly President Volkan Bozkir have welcomed the joint statement by India and Pakistan reaffirming their commitment to upholding the ceasefire along the Line of Control in…

Oklahoma: A man in the United States' Oklahoma has killed a woman neighbour and cut out her heart before cooking it with potatoes. While obtaining a search warrant, an agent with the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation told a judge…

Kuala Lumpur: Malaysia on Wednesday launched the nationwide Covid-19 vaccination programme with Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin being the first person to get the jab. Muhyiddin received the vaccine shot on live television in a bid to…

Dubai: A Dubai-based 14-year-old boy from Kerala who had made a six-layered stencil portrait of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi as a gift to him on the occasion of the country's Republic Day, has received a letter of appreciation from…

Canberra: Prime Minister Scott Morrison has become one of the first Australians to receive a coronavirus vaccine. Morrison on Sunday morning received his first dose of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine alongside Chief Medical Officer Paul…

Houston: As many in the US state of Texas experience power outage, the state is now running out of food with the disruption of supply chain, local media has reported. The Texas Tribune published a story on Wednesday saying that across…

Kabul: Three people were killed and two others wounded in two security-related incidents here over the past 24 hours, sources said on Wednesday. In the first incident on Tuesday night, one person was killed and two others injured in a…

Baghdad: A civilian contractor was killed and six others including a soldier were wounded in a rocket attack that targeted Erbil airport, which houses a US-led coalition military base, in the semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan in northern…

Canberra: Australia's Covid-19 vaccination rollout will begin next Monday as the first 142,000 doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine landed in the country, Health Minister Greg Hunt said. Hunt said the vaccines landed in Sydney just after…