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The Japanese government has allocated Rs 1,615 crore in its 2020 supplemental budget for the subsidy to encourage companies to shift to India and across the ASEAN region.

The COVID-19 case fatality rate has further declined to 1.74 per cent in the country. There are 8,31,124 active coronavirus cases in the country, which account for 21.11 per cent of the total caseload, the data stated.

A forest guard was critically injured in Rajasthan's Baran after he was allegedly run over by a tractor and dragged some 200 metres by 5 to 7 people who attacked his patrolling squad during an antiencroachment drive on Friday, officials said. The incid...

Ganapathy, when he was the top Maoist leader, carried a combined reward – announced by several states like Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Odisha, Bihar, and by central agencies like NIA – of over Rs 2.5 crore.

In today’s wrap: Supreme Court to hear review pleas on NEET, JEE dates; update on coronavirus cases in India; Chinese defence minister seeks meeting with Rajnath Singh; NCB detains Sushant Singh Rajput's aide; another minor raped and murdered in UP’s Lakh...

Former Minister in UP Government and Prayagraj Member of Parliament Rita Bahuguna Joshi also tested positive for COVID-19 on Thursday and has been admitted at SGPGI Lucknow for treatment. Elsewhere, Samajwadi Party headquarters in Lucknow was sealed on We...

Nyima Tenzin was killed near the shores of the Pangong Tso in Ladakh as Indian and Chinese forces came close to direct confrontation.

The final placement procedure concluded with the highest domestic maximum earning potential (MEP) being extended at Rs 81 lakh, as opposed to the Rs 60 lakh last year.

BJP MP Topon Kumar Gogoi, who represents Jorhat constituency tested positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday night while his party colleague and MP from Mangaldoi seat, Dilip Saikia tested positive for the virus on Thursday.

The authors met Delhi Commissioner of Police S N Shrivastava with their complaint and sought immediate and necessary action against those named in it.

The state will also explore similar arrangements for Rapid Antigen testing by pharmacists and chemists on the lines of private hospitals and doctors, it said.

The Ministry of Education officials said while Thursday's attendance in the engineering entrance exam was 82.14%, it was 81.08% on Wednesday.

During the meeting, he said that the government is committed to the all-round development of Ayodhya and all the development works should be completed in a time-bound manner, while adhering to all the quality norms.

Bhushan called the contempt of court jurisdiction "very dangerous" and said it should be abolished.

India slammed Pakistan for its "blatant attempt to politicise" the working of the 1267 Al Qaeda Sanctions Committee after Islamabad's move to get four Indian nationals added to the sanctions list was blocked by the UN Security Council.

Hong Kong (AP) Only six people in Hong Kong have tested positive for the coronavirus out of a batch of 128,000 residents who had undergone the mass-testing programme that began on Tuesday. Four of the six were previous coronavirus patients who had been...