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Tens of thousands of people protested across Poland on Friday in defiance of tight coronavirus restrictions, following Thursday's ruling by the Constitutional Tribunal that imposes a neartotal ban on abortion in the predominantly Roman Catholic country.

Melbourne (AP) All staff and students from two schools in northeast Melbourne have been told to immediately get tested for COVID-19 after the emergence of seven new cases on Saturday. There were no deaths. Both schools will be closed for the next two we...

Meanwhile, Punjab State Women Commission Manisha Gulati, who met the bereaved family Friday evening, sought death sentence for the culprits.

Dr Arindam Kar, who is leading the team of doctors in treating the veteran actor said in a statement on Friday evening, that the other organ functions like liver, kidney and heart conditions of Chatterjee are okay but he is "barely arousable.

One more person died from coronavirus in Chandigarh on Sunday as 64 fresh cases took the infection count to 13,646 in the joint capital of Punjab and Haryana. So far, the virus has claimed 208 lives in the union territory, according to a medical bullet...

The obituary was published in a local newspaper and Ejji had also written a separate note for Facebook. The family published the other note on social media after he passed away.

Rajasthan recorded 13 more coronavirus-related fatalities on Sunday, taking the death toll to 1,748, while 1,995 new cases pushed the infection tally in the state to 1,73,266, according to a bulletin by the Health Department. At present, there are 21,1...

The recovery rate from the COVID- 19 infection in Thane district has crossed 90 per cent even as the number of cases reached 1,99,386, an official said on Sunday. The caseload includes 5,045 deaths and 1,79,847 people getting discharged post recovery, h...

Over 7.7 lakh out of the over 13.66 lakh candidates have qualified the exam which is used for admission to MBBS courses across the country.

The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has arrested two persons from Navi Mumbai and Pune in Maharashtra and recovered marijuana worth over Rs 50 lakh from their possession, an official said on Sunday. A team of the NCB's Mumbai unit recovered 1,036 grams o...

U.S. presidential rivals Donald Trump and Joe Biden will court early voters on Sunday as their campaigns step up events ahead of their final debate this week.

The judgment, delivered by a bench headed by Justice Ashok Bhushan, has held that an aggrieved woman has a right to reside in a house although she or her husband may not own the premises jointly or singly, or might have taken it on rent jointly or singly.

Head coach Simon Katich on Saturday described AB de Villiers as a "freak" who single-handedly won Royal Challengers Bangalore the game against Rajashtan Royals. De Villiers (55 off 22) smashed six sixes to help RCB register a seven-wicket win over Ro...

Washington (AP) Leipzig midfielder Amadou Haidara tested positive for the coronavirus. The Bundesliga club before its match in Augsburg that the 22-year-old Haidara returned a positive result in the routine pre-game check..

A 12-year-old hearing and speech-impaired girl was allegedly raped and killed by her cousin in Deesa town of Gujarat's Banaskantha district, police said on Saturday. The victim's body was recovered from an isolated spot near Moti Bhakhar village of Dant...

The police have made a second arrest in the Barabanki rape-and-murder case of a Dalit teenager, whose body was found in a field here, and also added charges under the POCSO Act on discovering she was a minor, official said Saturday. Additional Superinte...