NEW DELHI: Ola, Porter, Uber and cash-strapped quick-grocery delivery provider Dunzo are the worst platforms for gig workers among 12 digital labour platforms evaluated when it comes to minimum standards of fair work in the platform economy in the country, a new report showed on Monday.

MUMBAI: Upcoming Indian race driver Kush Maini has joined the Alpine Academy, the young driver programme of the Formula 1 team, BWT Alpine F1 Team.

NEW DELHI: Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan's wife Bushra Bibi has voiced concerns about her incarcerated husband's security and safety, saying he "can be poisoned" in Attock jail.

LONDON: A 34-year-old Indian-origin man admitted to fraud after he took over 36 driving theory tests on behalf of other people, making up to 1,500 pounds each time, as part of an 'organised crime' ring across the UK.

LONDON: The risk of long Covid is strongly associated with area-level deprivation, with the odds of having long Covid 46 per cent higher for people from the most deprived areas, compared to those in the least deprived areas, according to a study.

LONDON:Award-winning British-Indian playwright and actor Meera Syal will be presented with a BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) fellowship, the highest accolade bestowed upon an individual in recognition of an outstanding and exceptional contribution to film, games or television.

WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden has re-nominated Eric Garcetti, the former mayor of Los Angeles, as the next ambassador to India, sending back the nomination to the US Senate whose Foreign Relations Committee, which clears all ambassadorial appointments, had sent it back to the White House a year ago.

NEW DELHI: A nationwide change will take place in the higher education system, especially in undergraduate courses as language will cease to be a barrier in BA, B.Com, and B.Sc courses.

WASHINGTON: The 'second term syndrome' seems to have sunk into the minds of both the current US President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, anxious to occupy the White House again from where power flows, global attention follows and decisions affecting the world are made.

LONDON: Rishi Sunak, who will on Tuesday become the UKs 57th Prime Minister, is richer than King Charles III and, at 42, younger than every predecessor except William Pitt the Younger, the media reported.

Islamabad:Former British Chancellor Rishi Sunak is set to make history by becoming the first Hindu and first person of colour to become the UK's next Prime Minister.

LONDON: Rishi Sunak, 42, a Conservative party politician who is of Indian descent, will be the next prime minister of Britain. It marks a meteoric rise in British public life, for he became a member of parliament only seven years ago.

MOSCOW:Former Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev, the last of the titans in Russia who sought economic reforms through his famous 'glasnost' (openness) and 'perestroika' (reconstruction), died in a hospital in Moscow. He was 91.

NEW DELHI: Well-known economist and former member of the Planning Commission, Abhijit Sen, passed away late on Monday night following a heart attack. He was 72.

NEW YORK: An international team of researchers has found that varicella zoster virus (VZV), which commonly causes chickenpox and shingles, may activate herpes simplex (HSV), another common virus, to set in motion the early stages of Alzheimer's disease.

China, which is the world's second-largest economy, saw its growth plummeting to a mere 0.4 per cent in the second quarter (Q2) compared to the same period last year, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) announced on Friday.

Beijing:China, which is the world's second-largest economy, saw its growth plummeting to a mere 0.4 per cent in the second quarter (Q2) compared to the same period last year, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) announced on Friday.

The effectiveness of Covid-19 vaccines were found to be similar for those with a higher body mass index (BMI) and of a healthy weight, but slightly lower for underweight people, according to a study published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology.
LONDON: The effectiveness of Covid-19 vaccines were found to be similar for those with a higher body mass index (BMI) and of a healthy weight, but slightly lower for underweight people, according to a study published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology.

Heat waves across America, or for that matter northwest India have been documented pretty well. However, why can't some geographic regions be consistently analysed?
NEW DELHI: Heat waves across America, or for that matter northwest India have been documented pretty well. However, why can't some geographic regions be consistently analysed?

NEW DELHI: Meta (formerly Facebook) on Tuesday appointed Meghna Apparao as the Director of e-commerce in India to lead the strategy and solutioning that is focused on the company's e-commerce advertisers.

LONDON:Another 30,305 people in Britain have tested positive for Covid-19, bringing the total number of coronavirus cases in the country to 9,301,909, according to official figures released.

NEW DELHI:  The O.P. Jindal Global University (JGU) has announced the launch of its first postgraduate degree in psychology -- M.A./M.Sc. in Applied Psychology.

NEW DELHI: The Oxford-AstraZeneca jab gives powerful protection that may last a whole lifetime, a new study has found.

CHENNAI: Even though providing protection against liability claims to the vaccine manufacturers as contemplated by the central government seems unconstitutional, if at all it is given then it should be prospective and not retrospective, said an advocate whose client has preferred a claim against Serum Institute of India Private Ltd.

NEW DELHI: National lockdowns and public health campaigns introduced at the start of the Coronavirus pandemic have reduced the transmission of deadly invasive bacteria that cause respiratory infections -- potentially saving thousands of lives, according to a large study published in The Lancet Digital Health on Friday.

MUMBAI: Singer Kailash Kher is a household name today, but he looks back to recall his share of ups and downs during his early years in the music industry.

LONDON: The UK government has pledged to invest 29.3 million pound to 'future-proof' the country against Covid variants, media reports said on Wednesday.

NEW DELHI: While China will overtake the United States as the largest economy in the world by 2040, India will be a distant third contributor to the global GDP.

LONDON: Researchers at the University of Oxford have gained ethical approval for a new human challenge trial that aims to check the immune response needed to protect people against reinfection.

NEW DELHI:A government expert panel has given its nod to emergency use authorisation of Russian-made Covid vaccine, Sputnik-V, in India, Union Health Ministry sources said.

LONDON: A trial of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine on children in the UK has been paused even as the country's medicines regulator probes a possible link of the vaccine with rare blood clots in adults, the media reported.

LONDON: Of the more than 18 million AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine doses administered in Britain, only around 30 cases of blood clots were reported, British regulators have said.

NEW DELHI: The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) on Friday sought a list of MBBS students, nursing students and fellows, from its various departments, who will be administered the Covid vaccines on priority basis in the first phase of the vaccination drive.

WASHINGTON: A fourth Phase 3 clinical trial in the US to evaluate an investigational Covid-19 vaccine was underway and has started enrolling adult volunteers, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced.

CHANDIGARH: Panjab University Colloquia Committee in collaboration with Department of Political Science organized 43rd Colloquium Lecture on “The Sikh Panth : Its History and Historiography ”at Panjab University,here Monday.