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At least five people were killed and two others injured in a blast on Tuesday when a scrap dealer was trying to dismantle mortar shells and landmines in northwest Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, police said. The incident occurred at Camp Korana...

Eighty-nine Yavatmal Zilla Parishad doctors who had resigned en masse alleging disrespectful behaviour at the hands of the district collector agitated on Tuesday and refused to return to work unless the latter was shunted out. The doctors had submitted...

Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Tuesday directed officials to come up with a time-bound arrangement of granting sanction to prosecute government employees in corruption cases. He said any delay in granting the sanction to prosecute has a negati...

Seventy-five more COVID-related fatalities in Punjab pushed the death toll due to the disease to 3,359 while 1,100 fresh cases took the infection tally to 1,12,460 in Punjab on Tuesday. Twelve deaths were reported from Ludhiana, seven each from Amritsar...

Three persons found betting here on the ongoing IPL matches in the United Arab Emirates were arrested and over Rs 8 lakh and 15 kg of silver bricks were seized from their possession, police said Tuesday. The trio was arrested during a raid by police i...

They said they have decided to intensify their protest against the Centre and will continue to block rail tracks at Tanda, Mukerian, Jalandhar, Amritsar and Ferozepur.

Delhi Capitals skipper Shreyas Iyer won the toss and elected to bowl against Sunrisers Hyderabad in an IPL match here on Tuesday. Delhi Capitals made one change, bringing in fit-again pacer Ishant Sharma in place of Avesh Khan.

The Ministry of Home Affairs said the organisation was indulging in "illegal practices" due to which its earlier applications to receive funds from overseas had also been rejected.

Asserting that Sikhs in the US have never been as safe as under the Trump administration, a prominent Sikh-American leader has claimed that the Biden campaign is trying to "demoralise and demotivate" the community. Jasdip Singh, co-chair of the Sikhs for...

Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain on Tuesday said the city recorded more COVID-19 cases in September as compared to June, but the number of deaths due to the disease was "less than one-third" of what it was three months ago. He also said the health a...

Representing India at the meeting on Monday, Secretary (East) in the Ministry of External Affairs Vijay Thakur Singh also called for "redressing deficiencies" in the international efforts to ensure that perpetrators of terrorism are brought to justice.

At a recent press conference after SP Balasubrahmanyam's demise, the singer's son SP Charan addressed various rumours and said that Ajith calling the family is not important, the loss of SPB is.

Samajwadi Party supremo Akhilesh Yadav on Tuesday condoled the death of the Hathras gangrape victim, and said "no hope" is left from the "insensitive government". "A dalit daughter, who was victim of gangrape and brutality ultimately died. I condole her...

The instructions for MHT CET 2020 say that the questions for both the PCM and PCB papers will be available in three languages — English, Marathi and Urdu

Addressing a press conference, Chadha said the notices were also issued to the Central Public Works Department and the Delhi Development Authority between September 1 and September 15.

The CBI court will announce the verdict that includes 32 accused in the case, including former deputy prime minister L.K. Advani, former Uttar Pradesh CM Kalyan Singh, senior BJP leaders Murli Manohar Joshi and others.