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With 2,736 COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, Chhattisgarh's caseload rose to 90,917, while 28 deaths over the past few days took the toll to 718, a health official said. The day also saw the discharge of 1,313 people from various hospitals post recovery while...

The Gujarat Assembly on Tuesday approved a bill under which the upper limit for an industrial unit to seek the state government's nod for lay- offs, retrenchment or closure has been increased from 100 workers to 300. While tabling the Industrial Dispute...

Like many other developing countries, India is still in the phase of preparing a framework for its data protection and e-commerce laws, he added.

Three more coronavirus patients died in Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar district, taking toll to 61 on Tuesday, an official said. Fifty-one new cases, including three police personnel and two medical staff, tested positive for the virus, taking the numbe...

A 42-year-old labour contractor was shot at and injured in Virar in Palghar district at around 3pm on Tuesday, police said. Ashram Rathod was standing near Barpeshwar Talao when two motorcycle-borne men shot from close range, one round brushing past his...

A 30-year-old lyricist and a 45-year-old man were arrested in two separate incidents in Mumbai with banned Mephedrone (MD) drug and ganja, an Anti Narcotics Cell (ANC) official said on Tuesday. In the first case, ANC sleuths seized 250 grams of Mephedro...

The e-ticketing app of Delhi government's Transport department is expected to cover all 6,600 public transport buses by the first week of November, Transport minister Kailash Gahlot said on Tuesday. Gahlot said features like its usage bynon-smartphone u...

Rajasthan reported the biggest single-day jump of 1,912 COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, taking its infection count to 1,18,793, while 15 more fatalities pushed the death toll to 1,367, according to a health department bulletin. Of the total cases, 18,614 peo...

The Rajasthan BJP on Tuesday hit out at the ruling Congress in the state over "deteriorating" law and order and said that it has "failed completely" to crack down on criminals and mining mafia. State BJP chief Satish Poonia said recently, sand mining ma...

Madrid (AP) Atltico Madrid says defender Jos Mara Gimnez has tested positive for the coronavirus. The club says Gimnez was the only player infected after the squad underwent tests on Monday..

Mamata Banerjee's letters to the Union ministers were released after the BJP and Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar questioned Banerjee's opposition to the farm.

Special Judge Praveen Singh handed over the accused to NIA for custodial interrogation after they were produced before the court in an in-chamber proceeding.

A PIL was filed in the top court by advocate Galib Kabir seeking direction to effectuate online voting by citizens.

The opposition members also protested claiming that the government has done 'too little' for the welfare of farmers.

Popular Indian gaming and entertainment centre operator Smaaash Entertainment is shutting down, according to an internal email and sources in the company, as few choose to hang out in its arcades amid surging coronavirus cases.

A 63-year-old woman was crushed to death when a huge boulder fell on her house in Goa's Vasco town following incessant rains in the area, a police official said on Tuesday. The incident took place on Monday night when the woman and her other family memb...