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Against the backdrop of doctors advising him against entering politics, top star Rajinikanth held a meeting to deliberate the possibility of his political entry with the office bearers of his forum on Monday. The meeting with Rajini Makkal Mandram's distr...

The affected families claimed that a total of four kids died in less than 12 hours of birth at the same hospital, alleging a dearth of basic amenities for newborns.

This is not a solitary incident in the area, as a couple of weeks ago, a 19-year boy, Vignesh, hailing from Digida village, Dahegam District of Maharastra was killed by a tiger on September 11.

Saumitra Khan, who is also the state president of Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM), said on the sidelines of a programme in Jalpaiguri that the current turmoil and the brewing discontentment in the ruling party have brought to the fore the question if...

Matondkar's name has been forwarded to Governor B S Koshyari by the Shiv Sena for nomination to the Legislative Council from the governor's quota.

In a strongly-worded statement, India advised the OIC to refrain from making such references in future and said it is regrettable that the grouping continues to allow itself to be used by a certain country "which has an abominable record on religious tole...

Steve Smith was at his imperious best as he scored a second successive 62ball century to drive Australia to a 51run victory over India at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Sunday, sealing the oneday series 20 with a match to spare.

I want to tell the people of Hyderabad that we will end the Nizam culture in the city and turn it into a mini-India, said Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday. He further said that we want to move from dynasty to democracy.

Similarly, in 2015 thousands of farmers from 15 states had gathered at Jantar Mantar, demanding former PM Manmohan Singh's intervention to resolve the farm crisis in the country.

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Farmers will address the media at 4 pm on Sunday.

During the term of his presidency, Donald Trump and Prime Minister Narendra Modi had harboured seemingly close ties, with a mega-event organised in the US President's honour called 'Namaste Trump' during January this year.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah appealed to the farmers to shift to the Burari ground in the national capital to stage their protest and said the Centre is ready to hold discussions with them as soon as they move to the designated place.

Appealing to farmers to end the protest, the minister said farmer unions' leaders should come for talks because solutions can be found only after the discussion.

In a joint statement, leaders of eight opposition parties extended their support to the farmers who are protesting the three farm laws.

The method — Dry Swab-Direct RT-PCR — developed by CSIR's Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, is a variation of the existing gold standard RT-PCR method and can easily scale up the testing by 2 to 3 fold with no new investment of resourc...