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SAD leader Harsimrat Kaur Badal demanded that the government should pause on these legislations by referring them to a parliamentary panel for wider consultations.

Uttar Pradesh reported 98 more fatalities due to COVID-19 on Friday, taking the death toll to 4,869, while 6,494 fresh cases took the infection tally to 3,42,788. The state now has 67,825 active COVID-19 cases and 2,70,094 people have recovered from the...

Stakeholders from the tourism industry met Aurangabad district's guardian minister Subhash Desai to demand reopening of monuments, which have remained closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Maharashtra's Aurangabad city is home to World Heritage sites of...

The 30-share BSE index was trading 186.37 points or 0.48 per cent higher at 39,166.22; while the NSE Nifty rose 62.70 points or 0.54 per cent to 11,578.80.

Police were informed about the incident around 11.26 pm on Thursday. The deceased constable, Satender, was posted at Daryaganj ACP's office in Central district of Delhi Police and lived with his wife and child at PTS colony in Malviya Nagar, police said.

US President Donald Trump said he has spoken with the leadership team of Walmart and Oracle as part of his decision-making process on TikTok, the Chinese video-sharing social networking service. Citing national security concerns, Trump last month issued a...

Assam reported 17 more COVID-19 fatalities on Thursday, pushing the death toll to 528, while the tally climbed to 1,50,349 with 1,380 fresh cases, Minister for Health and Family Welfare Himanta Biswa Sarma said. The deaths were reported from Kamrup Rura...

Haryana Home Minister Anil Vj on Thursday divested senior IPS officer ADGP A S Chawla of all charges for his alleged failure to implement the 'Dial 112' helpline project for over a year. Vij, who carried out a surprise inspection at the Haryana police...

Maharashtra Higher and Technical Education Minister Uday Samant on Thursday announced three days' extension for students to submit applications for the last year/semester examinations of Mumbai University. Samant was speaking to reporters after holding...

The seven Indians were kidnapped by Taliban militants in the restive northern Baghlan province. Two of those Indians had returned to India last month.

: Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee has congratulated former Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy on completing Golden Jubilee as the MLA of Puthupally constituency. "Your political career has been very illustrious and exemplary for everyone not only...

Ministry of External Affairs Spokesperson Anurag Srivastava said the government of Pakistan has not been able to fulfil its obligations on implementation of the ICJ judgment in letter and spirit.

The Punjab cabinet on Thursday decided to relax construction area requirements for setting up universities in the state. It was decided to reduce the requirement of construction area from 50,000 square metres to 30,000 sq. mt for multi-domain universit...

Many of the entities where the government is mulling selling off majority stake as per reports have a weak credit profile, Icra Ratings said, adding a move to reduce the public ownership will be hurtful.

Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Thursday thanked Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari for accepting the state's proposal to approve the 72-km stretch of the Beas-Mehta-Batala-Dera Baba Nanak road project under 'Bharatmala P...

Some members such as Prasanna Acharya of the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) and Sanjay Raut of the Shiv Sena cautioned the government while entering into any agreement with China over the present situation.