India

The untimely and heavy downpour, predicted by the Met department, caused waterlogging in Pune city and its suburbs while more crucially it caused widespread damage to key summer crops of soybean and cotton in Marathwada.

Brussels (AP) European lawmakers won't be returning to the French city of Strasbourg for next week's plenary session because of the COVID-19 resurgence in France, the European Parliament president said Thursday. David Sassoli tweeted that the session wi...

Chennaiyin FC roped in Tajikistan winger Fatkhulo Fatkhulloev on a free transfer for the ISL 2020-21 season.

Canberra (AP) Australia's prime minister said on Thursday his government was giving priority to reopening air services to Japan, Singapore and South Korea. Prime Minister Scott Morrison said he had discussed reopening air routes with the leaders of all...

Najim Arshad, who won the Kerala state film award for the best male playback singer, says he is absolutely delighted as it was totally unexpected. The popular singer, who debuted in 2007 with 'Mizhineer' in the Malayalam film 'Mission 90 Days,' got the...

Washington (AP) President Donald Trump says he doesn't mind running against former Vice President Joe Biden, but he wouldn't want to run against his Supreme Court nominee, Amy Coney Barrett. Speaking to supporters in Iowa on Wednesday, Trump got some of...

Two men were arrested for allegedly snatching the bag of a 57-year-old man while he was picking up Rs 500 currency notes lying unclaimed on a road in north Delhi's Kotwali area, police said on Wednesday. The accused have been identified as Nizamuddin...

The Maharashtra cabinet on Wednesday gave its nod to scrap the decision taken by the previous Devendra Fadnavis-led dispensation to create an independent state election department, and restored its earlier status as a branch of the General Administratio...

The country's heightened vigilance along the border with China has shown that it is a new and different India of post 2014, the government said on Wednesday.

Border Security Force chief Rakesh Asthana reviewed the security along the India-Pakistan international border in Rajasthan, officials said on Wednesday. The director general of the border guarding force visited Bikaner and Sriganganagar sectors along t...

The Jhansi district administration has recommended to the Uttar Pradesh government to slap the stringent National Security Act against the eight college students arrested in connection with the rape of a minor girl at a hostel here. The accused have be...

The accident took place on Tuesday when Abdul Sattar and his daughter were on their way from Chirag Delhi to Khanpur on a scooty, a senior police officer said.

Chief Minister Amarinder Singh had earlier announced that his government will fight the anti-federal and vicious farm laws tooth and nail through legislative, legal and other routes.

The state has also allowed business-to-business exhibitions from tomorrow outside containment zones. Local weekly bazars, including that of animals, will also be allowed to reopen outside containment zones.

HLL Lifecare Limited, a public sector undertaking, has floated a global tender on Wednesday on behalf of the Health Ministry for procuring one lakh metric tonne of liquid oxygen.

New Zealand's oldest surviving Test cricketer and former captain John Reid has died here at the age of 92, the country's cricket board said on Wednesday. Reid, regarded as one of the world's best all-rounders during his heyday in the fifties and early...