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Adhikari, who joined the saffron party in the presence of Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday, has already given up membership of the Trinamool Congress and the ministerial position in the state cabinet.

Night curfew from 11pm to 6am will be in place in cities from tomorrow night to January 5, lasting a total of 15 days, the state government has decided. Separate hospitals will be earmarked for those who are detected with the new strain, it was announced...

The consignment was found in a field in Salach village, located about 1 km from the border, in Gurdaspur district.

Earlier, five candidates were elected unopposed, a state Election Commission spokesperson said. On Sunday, the elections were held for the posts of chairperson in 45 urban local bodies of 12 Rajasthan districts.

Ninety-six movies from across the world were screened online at the three-day Calcutta International Short Film Festival 2020 (CISFF 2020) which concluded on Sunday, organisers said. Of the 96 films, 21 are from India and nine are from West Benga...

"With the commencement of production from the Ashoknagar oil and gas reserve, West Bengal finds a place in the oil map," he said after inaugurating the project. The first proven reserve of oil and gas in the state was discovered in 2018.

SK Singhal has been holding the additional charge of DGP after then state police chief Gupteshwar Pandey took voluntary retirement from service in September.

"Most of the 700 employees who died due to coronavirus were all who were involved in direct interaction with the general public and most susceptible to the disease. They were frontline workers who helped the Railways facilitate the movement of migrants an...

Claiming that he has waived Rs 15,000 crore of farmers' loans from the state's cooperative banks, the chief minister, while talking to reporters in Delhi, said he has been unable to waive loans from various nationalised and commercial banks owing to the l...

Adityanath was reviewing the arrangements being made for coronavirus vaccination at a high-level meeting convened at Lok Bhavan in Lucknow.

The five-year-old girl went missing while playing in front of her house at Jadupur village of Nayagarh district on July 14 and her skeletal remains were found on July 23.

Reiterating his concern and appeal to diligently maintain Covid-appropriate behaviour, the health minister said people should follow coronavirus guidelines even at a time "when the country is at the cusp of authorizing the first set of vaccines".

The highest single-day spike till date — 8,593 cases — was reported on November 11. The chief minister said the situation in Delhi has improved significantly as the positivity rate had gone up to 15.26 per cent as in early November. It is now down to 1.3...

Speaking at an Assocham convention, Modi highlighted reforms spanning from the manufacturing sector to labour to say India has during the last six years emerged as the world's preferred destination for investment.

The fire department received a call at around 2.44 p.m. on Friday about a fire breaking out in a house in P Block in Sagarpur.

Regulated entities (REs) have already been uploading the KYC data pertaining to all individual accounts opened on or after January 1, 2017, onto CKYCR in terms of the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering (Maintenance of Records) Rules, 2005.