India

A health department officer urged people to take caution reminding everyone that the most number of chikungunya cases were recorded between mid-October and November last year.

Earlier this year, the Brazilian government ended visa requirements for tourists and businesspeople from the United States, Canada, Japan and Australia.

The district collector took the measure after several incidents of alleged witchcraft practice were reported from villages of the district.

Applicants who will be granted permission may be informed only four days before the proposed date of travel. Therefore, applicants will have to make their travel arrangements in advance.

Jammu district has registered a polling percentage of 99.5. Out of the 2,703 voters, 2,690 voted in 20 blocks.

The corridor will connect the Dera Baba Nanak shrine in India's Punjab with Darbar Sahib at Kartarpur, just about four km from the international border, located at Narowal district of Pakistan's Punjab province.

Balajied Kupar Synrem is the son of deceased sitting MLA of the Shella constituency, Donkupar Roy, and is the frontrunner to win the seat.

Additional Sessions Judge Rakesh Syal took cognisance of the final report which also names separatist leaders Asiya Andrabi, Shabir Shah and Masarat Alam Bhat as accused.

India, the world's second-biggest rice and wheat producer, buys the grain from local farmers at state-set prices to build stocks to run a major food welfare programme.

Presently, the dairy major is selling three varieties of tomato at Rs 30/kg, Rs 40/kg and Rs 55/kg through its 400 retail outlets named Safal.

Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee had decided to visit Padma Shri awardee Sen after she wrote to Banerjee requesting him to meet her. He was in Sen's residence for 45 minutes.

The LMC or Lucknow Municipal Corporation provides door-to-door garbage collection facility to the residents of these localities to facilitate proper sanitation to curb breeding of mosquitoes.

The Bareilly district in Uttar Pradesh has reported 12 new cases over the past one week. With these, the total number of cases has reached 74 in the district for the year.

The incident took place on October 13 in Khatoli district. The victim was rushed to a hospital, where she succumbed to injuries, the police said.

An NCRB report states that while the number of jail inmates is at a five-year high, from 2012 to 2017, the rate of occupancy in the jails, or overcrowding, is also growing.

Swami Nischalananda Saraswati has for long been demanding the end of all state control of temples and maths arguing that such control leads to their mismanagement and a decline of Hindu religion.