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The couple has confessed they killed him as he was an alcoholic who would abuse and beat them regularly," a police official said.

The door was bolted from inside and had to be broken open, a police officer said. Though no suicide note was found, all angles, including the possibility of the student killing herself, are being explored, he said.

Meanwhile, police in Bhadradri-Kothagudem district bordering Chattisgarh, caught a 35-year-old Maoist, who is a commander of a guerilla squad, and a 20-year-old woman Maoist in Tirlapuram forest during a combing operation, a police press release said.

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A total of 74,32,829 people have recuperated from Covid-19 so far, taking the national recovery rate to 91.34 per cent. The case fatality rate has dropped to 1.49 per cent. The number of active Covid-19 cases remained below 6 lakh for the second consecuti...

Ritu Phogat defeated Cambodia's Nou Srey Pov with a technical knockout win at ONE Championship.

The investigation by the capital markets regulator found that the designated employee of the company and his spouse had traded in the scrip of Titan when the trading window was closed, in violation of SEBI (PIT) Regulations, 2015.

Sikkim's COVID-19 tally rose to 3,913 on Friday as 20 more people tested positive for the infection, while one fresh fatality pushed the Himalayan state's coronavirus death toll to 68, an official said. Nineteen fresh infections were reported in East Si...

The BCG vaccination is known to induce innate immune memory, which confers protection against several infections, the study uploaded as preprint at medRxiv, reported.

The commission under Chairman N K Singh on Friday concluded its deliberations on the report.

Eid Milad-un-Nabi celebrates the birthday of Prophet Muhammad in the third month (Rabi al-awwal) of the Islamic lunar calendar the world over.

Despite coronavirus spread, people are visiting Khadi India outlets every day to buy Khadi products. Handmade indigenous 'Khadi' cloth is preferred among Indians as a legacy of Mahatma Gandhi.

Brazil expects to have a vaccine against COVID19 approved and ready for use in a national inoculation program by June, the head of the country's health regulator Anvisa, Antonio Barra Torres, said on Thursday.

The Centre for Advocacy and Research (CFAR) in partnership with the Jaipur Municipal Corporation organised an awareness campaign on COVID-19 and distributed free face masks to people in the city on Thursday. The campaign began with a 'nukkad natak' in...

The Western Railway said in a letter to the state on Thursday that it can transport a maximum of 9.6 lakh commuters even if it operated all 1,367 suburban services, while the Central Railway said only 12.4 lakh passengers can be ferried even if it operate...

The revenue realisation during the current fiscal suffered on account of the lockdown imposed by the government to check the spread of coronavirus pandemic.