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Several Indian students say the Supreme Courts refusal to allow exam centres for the NEET in Gulf countries has left them the lurch. (Representational Image: PTI)

Gulf aspirants worried about COVID risk of flying down for NEET exams

Some of them have decided the skip the National Eligibility Cum Entrance Test (NEET) altogether this year

30 Aug 2020 6:46 PM IST

Global coronavirus infections soared past 25 million on Sunday, as countries around the world further tightened restrictions to try to stop the rampaging pandemic. (AFP)

Global coronavirus cases cross 25 million

A million additional cases have been detected globally roughly every four days since mid-July

30 Aug 2020 12:45 PM IST

Women wearing face masks against the coronavirus walk past United Arab Emirates and Israeli flags at the Peace Bridge in Netanya, Israel. (AP)

UAE issues formal decree ending Israel boycott amid US-brokered deal

First direct commercial flight by Israelâ€™s flagship carrier El Al is expected in Dubai on Moday, carrying US and...

29 Aug 2020 3:22 PM IST

Men wearing protective masks walk on a plastic pier at Katara beach in the Qatari capital Doha. (AFP)

Low death rates despite record infections, here-'s how Qatar tackled...

More than one in five residents have now been tested, and at the height of the pandemic, more than one in four of those...

26 Aug 2020 10:50 AM IST

An Israeli soldier prepares an Elbit Systems Skylark I unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV or drone) for take-off near the border with the Gaza Strip in southern Israel. (AFP)

Hamas asks regional leaders to -'break silence-' as Pompeo starts...

Israel has bombed the coastal Palestinian strip, which is ruled by Hamas, almost daily since August 6

24 Aug 2020 2:34 PM IST

Israeli policemen remove protesters from the street during a demonstration of thousands against the Israeli government near the Prime Ministers residence in Jerusalem. (AFP)

Israelis protesters decrying corruption show no sign of abating

Saturdayâ€™s protest comes just days before an August 25 deadline for the government to pass a state budget

23 Aug 2020 2:38 PM IST

In this Feb. 14, 2005 file photo former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, left, Parliament member Marwan Hamadeh and Bahiyah Hariri, sister of President Hariri, are pictured during a meeting at the Parliament in Beirut. (AP file photo)

Death of Hariri is to Lebanese what the JFK assassination was to...

The former PM who embodied the reconstruction of the country after its 1975-1990 civil war was killed in a monster bomb...

18 Aug 2020 1:37 PM IST

Smoke rises from a rocket attack during Independence Day celebrations at the Defense Ministry in Kabul, Afghanistan. AP photo

Rockets hit Kabul on Independence Day, several injured

Fourteen rockets were fired from two vehicles in Kabul, interior ministry said

18 Aug 2020 1:19 PM IST

UAE-Israel telephone lines open for the first time

UAE-Israel telephone lines open for the first time

By Sunday, Israeli news websites that had previously been blocked by UAE could be accessed without using means to bypass...

17 Aug 2020 10:18 AM IST

Firefighters carry the coffin of their comrade Ralph Malachi, who was killed in the monster explosion at the port of Beirut and whose remains were recently found and identified, draped in the Lebanese national flag, during a funerary ceremony at the civil defence headquarters in the Karantina (La Quarantaine or Quarantina) neighbourhood of the capital just by the ravaged port. (AFP)

UN launches $565 million appeal for Beirutâ€™s blast victims

The blast killed over 170 people, injured more than 6,000 and left thousands homeless

15 Aug 2020 3:18 PM IST

The materials were transported by an IAF C-17 transport aircraft that landed in Beirut earlier in the day on Friday.(Photo: MEAIndia/Twitter)

India sends humanitarian aid to Lebanon

The materials were transported by an IAF C-17 transport aircraft that landed in Beirut earlier in the day on Friday

15 Aug 2020 1:10 PM IST

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and Abu Dhabis Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed. (AFP)

Iran condemns UAE-Israel deal, calls it â€˜a stab in the backâ€™ to...

-'UAE government and other accompanying governments must accept responsibility for all the consequences of this...

14 Aug 2020 1:02 PM IST