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Besides Chomsky and Nair, the signatories include actor Ratna Pathak Shah, authors Amitav Ghosh, Salman Rushdie and Arundhati Roy, and journalist P Sainath.

Uttar Pradesh's Gautam Buddh Nagar recorded 192 COVID-19 cases on Thursday that pushed the district's caseload to 12,010, official data showed. The number of active cases rose to 1,699 from 1,615, according to the data released by the UP Health Departme...

While the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) said the woman was discharged from the hospital on September 5, her relatives have filed a missing person's complaint at Shivajinagar police station here in Maharashtra.

The apex court then declined to entertain Bharadwaj's bail plea and dismissed it as withdrawn.

The company has alleged that material injury is being caused to the domestic industry due to dumped imports from China and Korea and has requested for the imposition of anti-dumping duty on the imports, according to the notification of the Directorate Gen...

Tamil Nadu has recorded 5,57,999 Covid-19 cases with over 5,000 cases being reported every day for the past several weeks, Chennai is keeping a steady rate of around 1,000 cases daily.

Exchange data showed that foreign institutional investors sold equities worth Rs 3,912.44 crore on a net basis on Wednesday.

The West Bengal government has decided to extend the period of austerity measures taken to meet the expenditure for tackling the coronavirus pandemic from this September to March 31 next year. "The validity of this department memorandum specifying addit...

Four private hospitals were issued notices on Wednesday for alleged non-adherence to COVID protocols after the recent deaths of 48 coronavirus patients, an official said. "In some hospitals, cases have been detected where, prime facie, the protocols (f...

Senior Congress leader Prithviraj Chavan asked on Wednesday why farmers were up in the arms if the Union government has indeed enacted three `farmer friendly' laws. "All the farmers are opposing these three controversial laws but the government is sayi...

KeralaChief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Wednesday said the state was going to witness "massive development in terms of road infrastructure" with several projects being launched as part of the Rebuild Kerala Programme. "This government is moving forwa...

Sixty-four more coronavirus-related fatalities were reported in Punjab on Wednesday, taking the death toll to 2,990, while the infection tally reached 1,03,464 with 2,123 new cases, according to a medical bulletin. Eleven deaths were reported from Ludh...

The Allahabad High Court adjourned the hearing into a PIL on the disappearance of a BHU student till October 12 as police sought more time to locate him. Shiv Kumar Trivedi, a BSc second-year student of Banaras Hindu University, is missing since Februa...

Six persons were arrested in four separate drug seizures in which mephedrone (MD) and ganja worth Rs 1.9 crore were recovered in Gujarat's Surat city, police said on Wednesday. Mephedrone worth Rs 1.3 crore and ganja valued at Rs 56 lakh were found in s...

Rao was admitted to the Manipal Hospital on September 1 with diagnosis of severe COVID-19 infection, director of a private hospital Dr Manish Rai said.

A POCSO court on Wednesday held a 23-year-old man guilty of raping a minor girl at Kookda village in Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar district in 2017. Special Judge Sanjiv Kumar Tiwari held Sajid guilty under IPC section 376 (rape) and under the Protect...