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The following is a roundup of some of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines for COVID19, the illness caused by the virus.

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will visit Vietnam on Thursday and Friday as part of a tour of Asia, the Vietnamese and U.S. governments said.

A Maryland businessman convicted of plotting to pay a Russian official more than $1.5 million in bribes to get lucrative contracts for transporting uranium was sentenced Wednesday to four years in prison.

An Austin real estate developer at the center of recent allegations against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton asked for an investigation into his uncorroborated claims that other businessmen have an elaborate conspiracy to steal $200 million worth of his...

AAP MLAs Rakhi Birla, Kuldeep Kumar, Akhilesh Tripathi and Rohit Kumar, and some volunteers had joined the sanitation workers in their protest outside the Civic Centre.

Doctors on Wednesday conducted the first round of dialysis on iconic Bengali actor Soumitra Chatterjee, as his health condition continued to be "very critical", officials at the private hospital, where the thespian is undergoing treatment, said on Wednesd...

He told this to reporters after taking part in a rally in Dharampuri town in Indore district ahead of the November 3 bypolls to 28 assembly constituencies in Madhya Pradesh.

The police officer said that investigation is on to ascertain the claim that the culprits had recorded the act in their mobile phones.

Gandhi said that people had to make a choice between the young leadership of the RJD-Congress combine and ‘beeta hua samay’ (past) of Narendra Modi and Nitish Kumar.

The US Agency for International Development (USAID) announced three regional energy programmes in South Asia, valued at more than $28 million, through the US government's Asia Enhancing Development and Growth through Energy (Asia EDGE) initiative.

The report said it found men to be afraid of being shamed for doing housework and women fear being shamed for making men do the housework.

The 'green' crackers are not as polluting as the conventional types of firecrackers and they contain at least 30 per cent less particulate matters such as Sulphur Dioxide and Nitrogen Oxide.

Gold fell more than 1.5% and silver nearly 6% on Wednesday as investors flocked to the safety of the dollar with fears of fresh coronavirus lockdowns hammering Wall Street and no immediate sign of U.S. stimulus to ease the economic blow.

The government had assured the doctors they would be relieved from office to join DNB training if they were selected for the same and no condition or caveat was attached, it said.

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European Union Film Festival announced on Wednesday that it is going virtual for its 25th year edition amid the pandemic and is set to begin from November 5. The festival, which celebrates EU-India cultural ties, aims to bring the best of European cin...