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Violence erupted in the region on Thursday when the candidates of teachers recruitment examination-2018 blocked the Udaipur-Ahmedabad Highway, pelted stones at police, damaged several properties and torched vehicles demanding filling of 1,167 general vaca...

Outstation patients being brought to Delhi in "very sick state" for treatment, and "time lapse" in transferring to hospital home quarantined persons whose health has deteriorated, could be among the factors behind the high number of COVID-19 fatalities re...

Anirban Lahiri shot his best round on the PGA Tour since 2018, producing a bogey-free 8-under 64 that catapulted him into the top-10 after 54 holes in the Corales Puntacana Resort and Club Championship. A chat with his coach, Vijay Divecha on iron and...

Protesters clashed with police as officers tried to disperse crowds for failing to socially distance during an anti-lockdown rally in London on Saturday. The Metropolitan Police said 16 people were arrested and nine of its officers were injured during th...

A senior journalist and another scribe were allegedly assaulted by local Congress workers in Chhattisgarh's Kanker district on Saturday, police said. A case was registered at Kanker police station against Jitendra Singh Thakur, Gaffar Memon, Shadaab Kha...

A decision in this regard was taken at a meeting of Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar and Deputy Chief Minister Dushyant Chautala with Union Minister of Textiles Smriti Irani here on the procurement of cotton.

Jain also said the next sero-prevalence survey, slated to be conducted from October 1, is likely to be delayed as the report of the September survey is to be put before the Delhi High Court by this monthend.

Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar's bust was desecrated in a college during BJP president Amit Shah's mega rally in Kolkata on May 15 last year. The state's ruling Trinamool Congress and BJP activists indulged in a pitched battle in Bidhan Sarani vandalising the...

As many as 1,424 persons tested positive for COVID-19, while 1,758 patients recovered from the infection in Maharashtra's Nashik district on Saturday, an official said. With the addition of the latest cases, the COVID-19 count in the district has risen...

Two juveniles have been apprehended for keeping an illegal firearm, which has been recovered from them. A video had surfaced on social media showing them firing shots from the pistol.

Emphasising that "Delhi will defeat dengue again", Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday sought cooperation of the city's resident welfare associations (RWAs) in combating vector-borne diseases. Kejriwal had kickstarted the '10 Hafte, 10 Baje, 1...

The state has been upgrading its power infrastructure, especially in the aftermath of cyclone Amphan, and adopting renewable energy, he said.

Three men have been arrested for killing a 35-year old man and dumping his body in a canal in Haryana's Sonipat after he allegedly failed to pay Rs 4,000 to one of them from whom he had purchased raw meat, police said on Saturday. Irshad, a resident of...

Through this book, Dr. Saksena, presents a series of anecdotes that allow the reader to extract the moral of the stories, rather than a didactic imposition of her views.

Union minister Kailash Choudhary on Saturday said the three farm Bills passed by Parliament this week will revolutionise the agriculture sector and help enhance farmers' earnings and make them self-reliant. Without naming the Congress, the Union minist...

Equine Biotech, a startup incubated at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), has developed an indigenous RT-PCR diagnostic kit called "Global diagnostic kit" for "accurate and affordable" diagnosis of COVID-19. The test kit, based on Reverse Tran...