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Considering the rise in COVID-19 cases, the Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) in Maharashtra's Aurangabad city plans to increase its bed capacity by 300 beds in one month, an official said on Tuesday. The institution has been treating COVID...

A 40-year-old woman was trampled to death by a wild elephant in Chhattisgarh's Jashpur district, a forest official said on Tuesday. The victim, Phulmati, was attacked by the jumbo in Kudkelkhajri village under Pathalgaon forest range on Monday night whe...

The court, while hearing a plea filed by Congress MLA Vinay Saxena, said the speaker has to only make a statement as to when these applications will be decided.

The COVID-19 death toll in Uttar Pradesh reached 5,212 after 77 more people succumbed to the disease, while 5,722 fresh cases pushed the tally to 3,64,543, an official said on Tuesday. There are 63,148 active cases in the state, while 2,96,183 COVID-19...

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The Centre has spent Rs 393 crore since 2014 for advertising the Beti Bachao Beti Padhao scheme that aims to improve child sex ratio, the Ministry of Women and Child Development told Rajya Sabha on Tuesday. According to data provided by Women and Child...

Hours after a three-storey building collapsed in Bhiwandi in Maharashtra's Thane district, two buildings located in its vicinity were vacated by the Bhiwandi Nizampur Municipal Corporation (BNMC) on Monday night, an official said on Tuesday. These build...

Replying to a query by former Congress minister Jaivardhan Singh, state agriculture minister Kamal Patel submitted a written reply with details of the farm loan waiver scheme. It stated that 26,95,381 farmers had benefitted from the waiver of over Rs 11,0...

Jewellery traders and shopkeepers in Madhya Pradesh's Indore city have decided to observe a partial lockdown in order to prevent crowding in markets amid the rise in COVID-19 cases, an official said on Tuesday. The decision was taken by bullion traders...

Receiving the influenza vaccine does not increase a person's risk for contracting COVID-19 or worsen associated conditions or mortality, according to a study. The research, published in the Journal of Clinical and Translational Science, shows the flu v...

Indian shares inched lower on Tuesday after a sharp selloff in the previous session, as rising global COVID19 cases and concerns over fresh lockdowns in Europe weighed on sentiment.

Ramkumar Ramanathan's bid to qualify for his maiden Grand Slam singles main draw fell flat after his straight set defeat against French wild card Tristan Lamasine in the qualifiers of the French Open, here. The Indian Davis Cupper, ranked 198, lost 5-...

The sit-in protest by eight suspended MPs at Parliament premises on Monday continued past midnight and received the support of a large number of opposition leaders. To show solidarity with their protesting colleagues, senior opposition leaders came in h...

A 21-year-old man was arrested for allegedly burgling the house of a World Bank official in south Delhi, police said on Monday. The accused has been identified as Ashwani, a resident of Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh, they said. On September 7, police r...

Former Himachal minister Shyama Sharma and six others died of COVID-19 in the state, which recorded 309 fresh cases on Monday, pushing the infection count to 12,439. So far, the state has reported 125 deaths due to the disease.

In a written reply in the Lok Sabha, Law and Justice Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said there is no proposal to amend the Representation of People’s Act to pave the way for a single voter list for the whole country and simultaneous polls of all the elected...