Germany

Germany: Oktoberfest is back in Germany after two years of pandemic cancellations — the same bicep-challenging beer mugs, fat-dripping pork knuckles, pretzels the size of dinner plates, men in leather shorts and women in cleavage-baring…

New Delhi: Prime Minister Modi is attending the G7 summit, to be held on June 26 and 27, following an invitation by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. The summit is being hosted by Germany in its capacity as the chair of G7, a grouping of the…

New Delhi: Germany respects India’s stand on the Ukraine conflict and it never sought to criticise New Delhi over the matter, said the country's Ambassador to India Walter J Lindner on Friday. Lindner also said there is a G7 meeting in…

Germany: Austria and Germany have both announced plans to relax coronavirus measures, weeks after pushing for compulsory vaccinations to curb infections. Although unvaccinated people will still face restrictions, Germans are being…

Germany: A lone gunman has killed one person and seriously injured three others inside a lecture hall at Heidelberg University in the south-west of Germany, before shooting himself dead. He was an 18-year-old German student. German…

Germany: Devastating floods tore through villages and killed at least 126 people in Europe, most of them in western Germany. Hundreds are still missing after record rainfall triggered severe floods in Germany and Belgium. Heavy rains…

Berlin: Germany lifted a Covid-related travel ban on people from the UK and four other variant-hit countries. Germany's health agency said it would lift a ban on most travellers from Portugal, Russia, India and Nepal from Wednesday.…

Germany: Chancellor Angela Merkel has said that Germany will start vaccination children over the age of 12 against Covid-19 from June 7. She, however, said that vaccination will not be made compulsory. "Children and young people aged 12…

Berlin: Germany's state and federal governments agreed on Tuesday to extend and expand coronavirus lockdown rules in the country. The German government said it is extending the country’s lockdown by three weeks until January 31,…