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A 22-year-old man died after being mauled by sloth bears in Chhattisgarh's Koriya district, a forest official said on Wednesday. Manoj Singh, the deceased, was attacked by bears in Nawapara locality of Chirmiri town, a hilly area surrounded by forest, o...

Two men employed at a fabrication workshop died and one of their colleagues injured after a loft inside the unit collapsed on them in suburban Kurla, police said on Wednesday. The incident occurred on Tuesday afternoon and the police have registered a c...

Prominent Sunni cleric and All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) member Maulana Khalid Rasheed Firangi Mahali said everyone knows how the "Babri masjid was demolished in full public view" and the "law of the land was shredded to pieces".

Uttar Pradesh reported 69 more fatalities due to COVID-19 on Wednesday, pushing the death toll due to the disease to 5,784, while 4,271 fresh cases took the state's infection tally to nearly four lakh. "The number of active COVID-19 cases in the state s...

Earlier, the DNA samples of the family members, hailing from J&K's Rajouri district were matched with three persons -- Imtiyaz Ahmad, Abrar Ahmad and Mohammad Ibrar. The three were killed by the security forces during an anti-terror operation in Shopian.

Washington (AP) A federal judge on Tuesday said a revised October 5 date the US Commerce Department picked to end the 2020 census may violate an order she issued last week that cleared the way for the head count of every US resident to continue through th...

The Maharashtra government on Wednesday issued an order stating that the new Mira Bhayander Vasai Virar (MBVV) commissionerate will begin its operations from October 1. The state government had last year announced the formation of the new commissionerat...

JD(S) leader H D Kumaraswamy on Wednesday said overcoming both national parties- Congress and BJP- was the challenge before his party during the November 3 bypolls for two assembly constituencies in Karnataka, as he expressed confidence about winning bo...

The New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) on Wednesday said there has been a decline in the number of cases of vector-borne diseases this year in areas under its jurisdiction as compared to the last two years. Ramesh Kumar, the medical officer, NDMC, said...

The Class 9 student had asked for a smartphone for online classes and despite being promised one, she hanged herself from the ceiling at her home.

The Madhya Pradesh police has arrested three members of an inter-state gang allegedly involved in highway robberies and seized cellphones worth crores from them, a senior official said. A special team was formed after goods worth Rs 41 lakh were stolen...

The Bombay High Court has directed real estate developer Renaissance Infrastructure to pay Rs 5.04 crore as compensation to a person who had not been handed over his property in Mumbai even after a delay over 80 months. A single bench of Justice S C Gup...

Twelve books on a variety of themes ranging from political biographies to reportage, anthropology to history and environmental histories to regional studies by writers like Jairam Ramesh, Stephen Alter and Vikram Sampath among others have made it to the l...

Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad and its Delhi unit head Himanshu Balmiki have been detained by the Uttar Pradesh police while on their way to Hathras accompanying the family of the 19-year-old Dalit gang-rape victim, his associates alleged on Wednesda...

All four attackers, upper-caste men from the woman's village are currently lodged in jail and will now also be charged with murder.

IndusInd Bank was the top loser in the Sensex pack, shedding around 2 per cent, followed by ICICI Bank, Axis Bank, SBI, PowerGrid, NTPC and HDFC Bank. On the other hand, Sun Pharma, ONGC, M&M and HUL were among the gainers.