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Under the Ujjwala Yojana, the government gives free cooking gas connection to women members of BPL families. There are about 7.49 crore Ujjwala beneficiaries as of now.

Priya Mehta travelled from the US to Frankfurt to catch a connecting flight to Dubai on July 4. But she was not allowed to board her flight as she did not have the Federal Authority for Identity and Citizenship (ICA) approvals issued by the UAE.

Jharkhand has reported 3,018 COVID-19 cases till Tuesday night, of which, 892 are active and 22 patients have died.

The meeting took place at a time when the Indian and Chinese armies have been locked in a bitter border standoff for the last eight weeks in eastern Ladakh.

The incident occurred in the early hours of Tuesday in ward number 1, Station House Officer (SHO), Sangariya, Inder Kumar said.

Markets and shops can now remain open from 9am to 7pm, an extension of two hours from the existing closing deadline of 5pm, in non-containment zones.

According to the deceased's wife, his younger brothers asked why the man did not share the snack with their children (his nephews), which led to a quarrel.

AgVa owner Diwakar Vaish accused international vendors of trying to sabotage Indian companies’ efforts to indigenously manufacture ventilators during the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Rajiv Gandhi Super Speciality Hospital in east Delhi has treated over a thousand patients after being declared a dedicated facility.

Daily commuting cannot be permitted as the number of COVID-19 cases were on the rise. Doctors and health workers were also bound by the new regulation

The Matheran hill station in neighbouring Raigad district received 93.4 mm rainfall in the 24 hours ending at 8.30 am on Tuesday, while the Thane-Belapur Industries Association observatory recorded 74 mm rainfall during the period, the India Meteorologica...

It took 110 days for coronavirus infections in the country to reach the one-lakh, while just 49 days more to go past the seven-lakh mark.

All of them were admitted to the Western Railways Jagjivan Ram Hospital here which was in April declared as a facility to treat COVID-19 patients, they said.

All protocols and SOPs as outlined by the ministry will be followed, including social distancing and sanitisation measures at these heritage sites.

The said merger was one of the recommendations of the Tax Administration Reforms Commission (TARC), headed by Parthasarathi Shome, which submitted its report in 2016.

The incident took place at around 10.30 am in a forest under Katekalyan police station limits when a DRG team was returning to base after destroying a Maoist transit camp, said an official.