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Sisodia had tested positive for COVID-19 on September 14 and was in home isolation. He was admitted to LNJP Hospital on Wednesday for treatment, and tested positive for dengue a day later.

The Department of Biotechnology (DBT) has facilitated Transfer of Technology of novel Brucella vaccine, developed by ICAR-Indian Veterinary Research Institute (ICAR-IVRI), to Ms Hester Biosciences Pvt Ltd, a statement said on Friday. This vaccine was...

He said the country's continuously rising COVID-19 recovery rate and progressively falling case fatality rate have proven the success of the containment strategy followed by all states/UTs, the health ministry said in a statement.

The Cyberabad police arrested 14 people, including the parents of the woman, in connection with the crime and are on the lookout for four more.

As many as 928 people tested positive for COVID-19 in Uttarakhand on Friday, taking the state's caseload to 45,332, while 13 more people died of the disease across the state. Dehradun district reported the highest number of 203 cases, Nainital 173, Udh...

The Delhi Police said that Pradeep Kumar (57), who was the regional head of Delhi Region and controlled business of northern and eastern areas, and Anjani Kumar Verma (48), a former assistant vice president RMG- Corporate Credit Group at Janpath Branch, h...

Hundreds of farmers sat on protests on the UP-Delhi border on Friday against the farm bills passed by Parliament after they were stopped by police personnel from moving towards the national capital, disrupting traffic in Noida and Ghaziabad. A heavy deplo...

Four people, including a former corporator, were remanded in police custody on Friday for allegedly extorting money from a builder on several occasions, police in Bhiwandi in Thane said. Main Accused Mohammad Khalid Mukhtar Ahmed Shaikh (47) and his thr...

The Gujarat High Court on Friday issued notice to the state government in a plea filed by 187 male candidates who had applied for the post of 'lok rakshak dal' (LRD, or police constable and jail sepai) seeking setting aside of the entire recruitment pro...

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II is said to be delighted as Buckingham Palace announced on Friday that her granddaughter Princess Eugenie is expecting her first baby early next year. Eugenie, the daughter of the Queen's younger son Prince Andrew the Duke of...

The Tamil Nadu government on Friday sought to assert that the three farm bills passed in Parliament recently will not affect farmers, saying Chief Minister K Palaniswami will not allow any legislation detrimental to their interests. The farmers in the s...

The call will be made after going through inputs provided by poll officials and chief secretaries of the states concerned, Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora said on Friday.

Gogoi's oxygen level had gone down to 84, much below the normal of 94, on Thursday and he was rushed to the ICU as he suffers from several comorbidities. The AIIMS Director, who is also a pulmonary specialist, held a virtual meeting with the doctors atten...

Farmers in Karnataka staged demonstrations across the state on Friday as part of a 'bandh' call given by several outfits to protest the 'anti-farmer' policies of the central and state governments. A large number of ryots from various parts of the stat...

The 30-share index was trading 395.08 points or 1.08 per cent higher at 36,948.68, and the NSE Nifty climbed 121.50 points or 1.12 per cent to 10,927.05.

On Thursday, her mother Nandita Achar received a letter of appreciation from Defence Minister Rajnanth Singh. In the letter dated September 16, Rajnanth Singh said he appreciated the sentiments of her daughter for the army jawans.