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The National Green Tribunal Tuesday refused to quash the environmental clearance granted to 1,320 MW coal-based super critical Khurja Thermal Power Project in Uttar Pradesh saying concerns for air and water pollution have been duly addressed. The green...

In an address at a ministerial meeting of the "Quad' grouping in Tokyo, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar also talked about its common position of ensuring a "free, open and inclusive" Indo-Pacific.

Saina Nehwal and Parupalli Kashyap felt it wasn't worth the risk to travel to Europe for just the one tournament -- Denmark Open.

The Andhra Pradesh Engineering Common Entrance Test (AP ECET) Results 2020 have been announced on the official website for the examination at sche.ap.gov.in.

Their training severely affected by the COVID-19 restrictions, the Indian men's hockey team's chief coach Graham Reid and skipper Manpreet Singh say it will be a deliberately slow progress towards players attaining pre-lockdown fitness levels. Six play...

The Pune boy had gotten admission in MIT in March but hadn't been able to go to the US due to the coronavirus lockdown and thus had stayed back and taking online classes.

U.S. President Donald Trump faced a fresh backlash on Tuesday for removing his mask when he returned to the White House and urging Americans not to fear the COVID19 disease that has killed more than 209,000 people in the country and put him in hospital.

West Bengal BJP president Dilip Ghosh on Monday alleged that the law and order situation in the state is worsening and gradually it is becoming a Mafia-ruled state like Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. In reply, the Trinamool Congress said it is good that he ac...

The team of scientists from Multidisciplinary Centre for Advanced Research and Studies (MCARS) at JMI along with experts from other institutes have developed a RNA extraction free saliva-based detection technology for COVID-19, a statement from the varsit...

Workers of the opposition Samajwadi Party staged a candlelight vigil in Noida on Monday, demanding a fair investigation into the death of the 19-year-old Dalit woman who was allegedly gang-raped in Uttar Pradesh's Hathras. Demanding strict punishment fo...

This was decided during a high-level meeting chaired by Chief Secretary Asit Tripathy.

White House officials said Trump was anxious to be released after three nights at Walter Reed National Military Medical Centre, where doctors revealed on Sunday that his blood oxygen level dropped suddenly twice in recent days and that they gave him a ste...

The Defence Ministry has scrapped the requirement of minimum continuous service of seven years for grant of enhanced ordinary family pension (EOFP) to the next of kin of deceased defence personnel, an official statement said Monday. An EOFP is 50 per...

The visit gains significance for several reasons – it comes at a time when India and China are engaged in a stand-off at the LAC and Myanmar army on the other hand has been pointing a finger at China for arming the insurgent groups on its soil. This has i...

Gujarat will get two organic spices seed parks in Banaskantha and Patan districts for the promotion of organic seed value chain of fennel and cumin, supported by the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD), senior officials said here...

Inspector General of Police (IGP) Kashmir Vijay Kumar said two motorcycle-borne terrorists opened indiscriminate fire on a CRPF Road Opening Party (ROP), leading to casualties.