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Sikkim MP Indra Hang Subba met Union IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad in Parliament on Tuesday and raised the issue of poor internet connectivity in the Himalayan state. Subba apprised the minister of various issues, including poor internet connectivity...

Officials said that the data of tests conducted on outsiders including mostly migrant workers coming to the city shows a positivity rate of over 2 percent.

Pune district reported 3,291 new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, taking its COVID-19 count to 2,57,797, while the death toll reached 5,870 after 96 people succumbed to the infection, an official said on Tuesday. A total of 1,614 people were disc...

Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Tuesday asked the Rajasthan Staff Selection Board to send various departments a list of candidates numbering three times the vacancies with them to expedite the process of filling up the vacant posts. The Chief...

The Congress MLA from Dharavi asked people who had come in contact with her over the past few days to get themselves checked for the infection.

The construction of three new heliports began in the middle of the current crisis, giving a clear indication of Chinese intent not just in Ladakh but all across the LAC.

His remarks come in the backdrop of media reports claiming that health researchers were not allowed to include data from containment zones in 10 hotspot cities in the first national serosurvey study paper published recently in the Indian Journal of Medica...

The Union Agriculture Ministry on Tuesday released the First Advance Estimates of production of major kharif crops for 2020-21.

Eight undertrial prisoners escaped from a temporary prison at Roshanabad here on Tuesday, sending policemen into a tizzy. Following their escape, vigilance on the borders of Haridwar district has been stepped up, SP (City) Kamlesh Upadhyay said.

The Delhi government's transport department on Tuesday asked owners of vehicles registered before April 2019 to affix them with high security registration plates and colour-coded stickers, saying a drive will be launched "soon" to check for the violation...

The marathon talks between the two armies focused on ways to defuse rising tensions along the treacherous and high-altitude friction points in eastern Ladakh.

Minister of State for IT Sanjay Dhotre said such fraudulent Aadhaar numbers are cancelled under specific provisions of the Aadhaar (Enrolment and Update) Regulations, 2016.

Pakistan on Tuesday conferred the country second-highest civil award Hilal-e-Pakistan on outgoing Chinese ambassador Yao Jing for his services in improving bilateral relations. President Dr Arif Alvi conferred the award at a special ceremony held at Aiwa...

Maharashtra tourism minister Aaditya Thackeray on Tuesday said Mumbai Cricket Association has in principal agreed to work with the state tourism department on a "stadium experience" tour of the iconic Wankhede cricket facility in south Mumbai for fans a...

Loktantrik Janata Dal leader and former Union minister Sharad Yadav, who was admitted to a private hospital due to illness, is recovering, his close aide Arjun Rai said on Tuesday. After a serious spell of illness, Yadav's health has shown improvement i...

A laboratory technician of a private hospital here in Maharashtra has been booked for allegedly assaulting a COVID-19 patient's brother with a wooden rod after the latter questioned bill amount, a police officer said on Tuesday. The alleged incident occ...