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On Thursday, a youth was shot dead during the shootout in front of local administrative officials over a dispute at a meeting for selection of ration shops. The prime accused, Dheerendra Singh, fled the scene amid a stampede-like situation that followed t...

Fine-tuning a few aspects of the Indian men hockey team's game will make a big difference at the Olympics, reckons midfielder Nilakanta Sharma. The Indian team has done well against top teams in the FIH Hockey Pro League, but Sharma feels that there is...

Washington (AP) Joe Biden is promising a sweeping effort for racial and economic justice if he's elected president. The Democratic presidential nominee said Thursday at a drive-in rally at the Michigan State Fairgrounds that President Donald Trump has e...

The National Green Tribunal has directed the Uttar Pradesh administration to keep a vigil against illegal operation of brick kilns to protect the air quality in the National Capital Region. A bench headed by NGT chairperson Justice A K Goel noted that b...

Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Friday said it is the aim of his government to reduce the maternal and infant mortality rates in the state. He said every effort should be made to improve the nutritional level of pregnant and lactating women, a...

A division bench of the Calcutta High Court on Friday stayed an order passed by a single bench earlier in the day for holding a second post mortem examination on the body of a man who died in judicial custody "due to torture", as alleged by his brother....

Nagaland's COVID-19 tally rose to 7,604 on Friday as 112 more people tested positive for the infection, a health official said. Dimapur district reported the highest number of new cases at 64, followed by Kohima (21) and Mokokchung (20), Health Minister...

Doral (US), Oct 16 (AP) Melania Trump lashed out Friday at self-serving adults for focusing on her falling out with a friend and adviser, writing that the attention paid to salacious claims about the broken relationship comes at the expense of her work on...

With the auspicious Navratri festival starting on Saturday, temples in Delhi have geared up to handle the rush of devotees by putting in place several measures, including installation of sanitisation tunnels and banning offerings like flowers and prasad'...

The number of COVID-19 cases in Thane district reached 1,98,259 on Friday after 1,260 people were detected with the infection, while 32 deaths took the toll to 5,015, an official said. The recovery rate in the district is 89.98 per cent (1,78,402 recove...

Twenty-six more coronavirus-related fatalities were reported in Punjab, taking the death toll to 3,980, while 507 fresh cases pushed the state's infection tally to 1,26,737 on Friday, according to a medical bulletin. Six deaths were reported from Amrit...

The Mumbai police have arrested a Delhi-based lawyer for allegedly spreading fake conspiracy theories about the deaths of actor Sushant Singh Rajput and talent manager Disha Salian, an official said on Friday. The Mumbai crime branch's cyber cell nabbed...

Madhya Pradesh BJP chief V D Sharma on Thursday accused senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh of running the previous Kamal Nath-led government in the state "from behind the curtains". He also dared state Congress chief Kamal Nath to rope in Digvijaya...

Floods have hit the state thrice within a span of three months, which is unprecedented in Karnataka. The badly affected districts are Kalaburagi, Bidar, Yadgir, Ballari, Raichur, Bagalkote, Davangere, Koppal, Dakshina Kannada, Shivamogga, Udupi, Vijayapur...

The finance minister's letter to states comes four days after the GST Council meeting failed to reach a consensus on the stalemate over the Centre's proposal of states borrowing against future GST collections to make up for the shortfall.

: The assistant headmaster and a teacher of a panchayat union elementary school have been suspended as they have allegedly been involved in religious conversion of students. According to the education department officials, they got a complaint some...