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region at 5 pm. MDS1 TL-VIRUS-CASES Telangana COVID-19 tally inches closer to two lakh mark Hyderabad: Telangana reported 1,949 new COVID-19 cases, taking the tally to nearly two lakh, while ten more deaths pushed the toll to 1,163, a government bullet...

One of the organisers of the meeting and Pehalvan’s son Manveer Singh, however, denied that the gathering comprised members from the so-called upper castes and said they were from different sections of society.

An NGO will distribute 10.7 million meals across nine cities in India to people who have been impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. The Delhi-based NGO, Sustainable Environment and Ecological Development Society (SEEDS), in partnership with Honeywell wi...

The national capital's air quality was recorded in the moderate category on Sunday morning, and it is likely to turn poor on Monday due to lowering temperatures and slow wind speed. The city recorded an air quality index (AQI) of 174 at 10:30 am which f...

Search operations will be taken up in Bhadradri-Kothagudem district of Telangana as movement of Maoists and their affiliated organisations was detected there and on the borders of Chhattisgarh, police said on Saturday. The police forces of Bhadradri-K...

Sixty-one more deaths due to COVID-19 in Punjab pushed the death toll to 3,562 while 1,106 cases took the infection tally to 1,17,319 on Saturday, a health bulletin showed. Fourteen deaths were reported from Amritsar, 10 from Ludhiana, five each from K...

The standing committee of the South Delhi Municipal Corporation has approved a proposal to fix cost of cremation for pet dogs at a first-of-its-kind facility in the city coming up in Dwarka, officials said on Saturday. A dog crematorium spread over 700...

Police on Saturday said they have arrested a four-member gang of cyber criminals from Rajasthan who allegedly created fake social media accounts of police officers and sent messages, seeking money, to those in their friends list. It has been found tha...

A Delhi court has dismissed the bail plea of former Laxmi Vilas Bank Vice President Pradeep Kumar in a case related to alleged misappropriation of funds at Religare Finvest Ltd. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Vijeta Singh Rawat said as per the...

A 44-year-old farmer, who was on his way to sell his crop in a mandi, died after his motorcycle rammed into a bridge wall and fell into a river in Rajasthan's Bundi, officials said on Saturday. The deceased has been identified as Heeralal Banjara, a re...

Announcing the visit, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said it will provide an opportunity to take stock of the existing bilateral ties and strengthen cooperation in areas of mutual interest.

Union Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment Ramdas Athawale on Saturday said there should not be any politics in the name of atrocities on Dalits which he claimed to have been going on during successive governments in Uttar Pradesh. "Wha...

The seat-sharing exercise gained momentum after RJD supremo Lalu Prasad’s emissary Bhola Yadav returned to Patna from Ranchi on Thursday.

Inaugurating the Atal tunnel in Himachal Pradesh’s Rohtang, Prime Minister Narendra Modi lashed out at the Congress-led previous governments, saying strategic projects were neglected and defence interests were compromised for years.

Indian golfer Anirban Lahiri grinded it out to card a 2-under 70 in windy conditions on a day when his driver was very errant in the second round of the Sanderson Farms Championship. Lahiri stayed at Tied-7th but slipped to five shots behind the lead...

The girl was rescued on Friday morning from Rasra bus stand and the accused identified as 23-year-old has been arrested, SHO, Sikandarpur Amarjeet Yadav said.