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Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren has wished him a speedy recovery.

Two guns of forest personnel were stolen from a camp in Sonai Rupai Wildlife Sanctuary in Assam, police said on Thursday. Sonitpur district SP Mugdhjyoti Dev Mahanta said two forest personnel went out of the camp early this morning, leaving their rifles...

A man got his son appointed on compassionate grounds in the Military Engineering Service (MES) department allegedly on forged documents of his deceased brother who was an employee of the organisation, prompting the crime branch to slap an FIR against the...

The city reported 2,163 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday with 54 fresh fatalities.

Ten more COVID-19 patients died in Himachal Pradesh on Thursday, pushing the death toll to 146, while 337 fresh cases took the state's tally to 13,387. Six deaths were reported from Kangra and one each from Shimla, Kullu, Sirmaur and Chamba, according to...

The count of COVID-19 cases in Nashik district of Maharashtra crossed the 68,000-mark and rose to 68,829 on Thursday with the addition of 1,176 new patients, health officials said. The virus claimed 24 more lives, which took the death toll in the distri...

The Ministry of AYUSH has joined hands with Rajagiri College of Social Sciences and Rajagiri Business School in Kochi to organise a novel e-marathon as part of its three-month-long "Ayush for Immunity" campaign. The campaign would focus on desirable he...

The AAP government has challenged in the Delhi High Court its single judge order staying the reservation of 80 per cent ICU beds for COVID-19 patients. The single judge on September 22 had stayed the Delhi government's September 12 direction to 33 priva...

Farmers in Punjab and Haryana will go on a strike on Friday in protest against the contentious farm bills that were passed in the Parliament. As many as 31 farmer organisations have joined hands for the 'Punjab Bandh'. Several organisations in Haryana,...

Responding to reports, Anurag Srivastava said India's position has always been clear and consistent. "The entire territories of the UTs of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh have been and are an integral part of India and would remain so. Pakistan has no locus...

Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs Secretary Durga Shanker Mishra asked the states on Thursday to focus on 100-per-cent source segregation and waste processing, according to a statement. Mishra reviewed the progress of the Centre's schemes -- Swachh...

Haryana BJP chief O P Dhankar on Thursday said the Opposition's lies on the Centre's farm reforms will be nailed during the upcoming crop procurement season beginning next week. He said the procurement of kharif crops will begin in Haryana and Punja...

Civil rights bodies urged President Ram Nath Kovind on Monday to not sign the FCRA bill, urging him to send it back for a parliamentary committee consultation. Parliament on Wednesday passed a bill to amend the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act to m...

A seven-year-old girl was allegedly killed by a male relative, who lured her with a biscuit and crush her head with a stone in Madhya Pradesh's Indore city, police said on Thursday. The accused, who is in his 20s, has been apprehended based on the CCTV...

An Indian national, found dead at the staircase of a hospital, was worried over his finances and family after contracting the COVID-19, a media report said on Thursday. A doctor from Khoo Teck Puat Hospital (KTPH), where Alagu Periyakarrupan was found de...

The Delhi government is working out modalities to ramp up RT-PCR testing in the national capital, officials said on Wednesday, a week after the high court had suggested increasing the capacity. The Delhi High Court had last week suggested that the AAP g...