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The strike of some 140 resident doctors of the Government Ayurvedic College in Nagpur entered its fifth day on Sunday, officials said. Among their demands is that they too be given a Rs 10,000 hike in stipend like the one provided to MBBS and dental res...

The Chief Minister held a meeting with Chief Secretary TM Vijay Bhaskar and other senior officials of the state government to discuss the precautions that need to be undertaken to check the spread of COVID-19, during the Mysuru Dasara.

Union minister Babul Supriyo on Sunday said the recent chain of events in West Bengal -- from the arrest of al-Qaeda linked men to the controversy involving a Sikh man, show that it was a "fit case" for imposition of President's Rule in the state.

The Delhi forest department has imposed a fine of Rs 4 lakh on the Public Works Department for damaging trees during the construction of a drain at Meera Marg in Lodhi Colony here, officials said on Sunday. The department had in September issued orders...

Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan Maharashtra, Chandigarh and Delhi have failed to fully utilise the Covid-19 grant given in the first phase by the central government.

Ugly scenes were witnessed here at a meeting of Congress leaders ahead of the by-election to Deoria Assembly constituency with a woman party worker being roughed up by her colleagues after she alleged that the ticket has been given to a "rapist". The w...

While the man was living with his daughter in Mumbai, his wife was staying at Surat in Gujarat. The girl complained about pain in her private parts following which her mother took her to doctors.

The COVID-19 caseload mounted to 70,53,806 with 74,383 infections being reported in a day. The death toll climbed to 1,08,334 with 918 people succumbing to the disease in a span of 24 hours.

: Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Saturday saidthe state government has decided to give sanitation status to local bodies which have provided the best infrastructure for solid waste treatment. He said the government aims to bring all the l...

Earlier, the Consumer Affairs Ministry had introduced a mechanism to supply pulses from the buffer stock to states at minimum support price plus 10 per cent other charges.

Mexico City (AP) With no explanation, the Mexican Stock Exchange halted trading around noon Friday, and then three hours later declared an end to the trading day at its usual closing time. In its Twitter account, the exchange wrote that both decisions...

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A house-breaking theft in which cash and ornaments totaling Rs 31.95 lakh were stolen has been solved with the arrest of two persons in Palghar district, Virar police said on Saturday. MBVV police spokesperson Tukaram Thatkar said jewelery worth Rs 25.2...

BJP MP Arjun Singh's nephew Sanjit Singh alias Pappu was arrested late on Friday night after hours of grilling in connection with fraud in a cooperative bank in Barrackpore, a senior police officer said.

The COVID-19 death toll in Uttar Pradesh rose to 6,353 on Saturday with 60 more fatalities, while 3,099 fresh cases took the infection tally in the state to 4,33,712, officials said. The number of active COVID-19 cases has seen a continuous fall and i...

: Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry Kiran Bedi on Saturday said the Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) modeto credit funds to the bank accounts of the beneficiaries of schemes here ensures clean and honest service. She referred to the criticism Chief Min...