India

The Food processing industry has huge growth potential and the country's agro-climate zones provide a fertile ground for various plant-based edibles that cater to indigenous people and also global consumers, experts said. Experts at a conference organi...

German carmaker Volkswagen will pay about 36 million reais ($6.5 million) in compensation to more than 60 former employees who were persecuted during Brazil’s 19641985 military dictatorship, media reported on Wednesday.

Mumbai Indians captain Rohit Sharma on Wednesday said playing in the hot and humid conditions of UAE "takes a lot out of you", an opinion shared by his pacer Trent Boult and Kolkata Knight Riders skipper Dinesh Karthik. Rohit starred with a 54-ball 80...

Hundreds of farmers held a protest march in Uttar Pradesh's Aligarh district on Wednesday against the farmers bills, which were passed by the Parliament. Heavy police deployment at a intersection in Tappal prevented the protesters, who were marching un...

Minister of State for Environment Babul Supriyo said most of the fires in the country are ground fires in which vegetation gets burnt and an amount of Rs 47 crore has been released to states under the Forest Fires Prevention and Management Scheme for 2019...

The Punjab government on Wednesday capped charges for coronavirus tests at private labs to check profiteering. Health Minister Balbir Singh Sidhu in a statement said the government has directed that no private lab should charge more than Rs 1,600 (incl...

It also raised concerns over delays in projects over the past five years due to inefficiency of zones and weak monitoring by the Railway Board.

The top court dismissed the appeal of the Centre against a Punjab and Haryana High Court judgement holding that it cannot levy enhanced custom duty from importers who had already presented bills of entry for home consumption before the enhanced rate was n...

Twenty-seven more people died from coronavirus in Haryana on Wednesday as 1,986 fresh cases took the state's infection tally to 1,16,856. So far, the disease has claimed 1,233 lives in the state. Of the 27 fatalities on Wednesday, three each were re...

A total of Rs 142.32 crore was spent between 2017 and 2019 for the implementation of the Environment Education, Awareness and Training scheme, the ministry of environment told Lok Sabha on Wednesday. Under the National Green Corps programme of this sche...

Indian manufacturers can produce around 3.48 crore RT-PCR combo kits per month, which gives the country a capacity to conduct around 11.35 lakh RT-PCR COVID-19 tests daily, the government said on Wednesday. The Central Drugs Standard Control Organisatio...

The number of COVID-19 patients in Delhi who are in home isolation fell on Tuesday by nearly 750 compared to the previous day, the decline being recorded after nearly a month of a steady rise in such cases, according to official data. However, the numbe...

A PIL has been moved in the Delhi High Court seeking action against social media platform Twitter for being allegedly involved in conspiracy to promote anti-India propagandasuch as Khalistan movement. The matter was listed for hearing before a bench of...

Manish Sisodia is the second state cabinet minister after Satyendra Jain who has tested positive for Covid-19.

Apart from the filter coffee -- its menu still does not include the likes of Cappuccino, Dalgone or Frappe -- however, the Coffee House has now included the immunity-boosting 'kadha' in its beverage list.

A committee of the Gujarat Assembly found several deficiencies in the state's healthcare infrastructure, pointing out that these were affecting the quality of medical treatment provided to backward classes. The 10-member committee on welfare of socially...