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The COVID-19 death toll in Haryana rose to 1,737 on Monday with 10 more fatalities, while 1,153 fresh cases pushed the infection tally to 1,59,457, a health bulletin issue here said. Of the new fatalities,three were reported from Gurugram, two each f...

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal will on Tuesday inaugurate a waste-to-energyplant at the Ghazipur fish and poultry market, Environment Minister Gopal Rai said. The plant will be able to process 15 tonnes of waste per day and generate 1,500 units of...

A 26-year-old man was killed while trying to break up a brawl in Latur in Maharashtra, police said on Monday. The incident happened at around 11:30pm on Sunday.

Ban on public events can bring down the COVID-19 reproduction number (R) number -- a key measure of virus transmission -- by 24 per cent in less than a month, according to a modelling study published in The Lancet journal. An R value above 1 indicates...

A 26-year-old man was arrested for allegedly mowing down a cyclist in south Delhi's Fatehpur Beri area, police said on Monday. They said the accused identified as Rohit, a resident of Gwal Pahari in Gurgaon, was arrested on Sunday. He runs a food stall...

The candidates qualifying the UCO Bank SO recruitment exam 2020 will be kept on a probation period of 2 years for scale 1 and one year for scale 2 posts.

France may be experiencing 100,000 new COVID19 cases per day two times more than the latest figures Professor JeanFrançois Delfraissy, who heads the scientific council that advises the government on the pandemic, told RTL radio on Monday.

As the state gears up for the elections, News18 looks at the VVPAT system, EVMs, and their functions.

Ananya Birla, the daughter of Aditya Birla Group's billionaire chairman Kumar Mangalam Birla, has slammed a US restaurant for being racist, saying the Italian-American dining place in California literally threw her and her family out of their premises. T...

Karnan, who was then a sitting judge in the Madras High Court, had to serve six months behind bars in a Kolkata prison after he was held guilty of criminal contempt by the Supreme Court.

France registered a record 52,010 new confirmed coronavirus infections over the past 24 hours, following a record 45,422 on Saturday, the health ministry said in a statement on Sunday, as a second wave of cases surges through Europe.

United Nations, Oct 25 (AP) The head of the United Nations said on Sunday that the COVID-19 pandemic is the greatest crisis of our age". UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres opened an online session of the World Health Summit with a call for worldwide...

Attempts to eradicate the disease in Pakistan have been seriously hampered by the targeting of vaccination teams in recent years by militants, who oppose the drives, claiming the polio drops cause infertility.

A brawl broke out in the Golden Temple complex here between the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) task force and members of some Sikh organisations who have been protesting for a month over the missing Guru Granth Sahib 'saroops', police said...

A UAE-based global EdTech company has announced the acquisition of a UK-born world-renowned leadership consultancy firm, which is working out of India. According to an official announcement, Library21 MEA Holdings Limited (formerly known as Coded Minds...

A man's frantic search for his missing daughter bore fruit when he got in touch with AAP MLA Raghav Chadha's office. Abhigyan (name changed) knew something was wrong when his 15-year-old daughter did not return from her tuition till late on September 7.