New Delhi, Aug 1 (IANS) Expressing condolences over the passing away of Rajya Sabha member and former Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said the energetic public figure
New Delhi, August 1 (IANS) Rajya Sabha member, former Samajwadi Party leader and famed power broker during the UPA era, Amar Singh, 64, lost his battle with kidney ailment on Saturday. He passed away in a Singa
New Delhi, August 1 (PTI): The country's total number of recoveries from COVID-19 has surged close to 11 lakh, while the case fatality rate has declined from 3.33 per cent in mid-June to 2.15 per cent, the
New Delhi, August 1 (PTI): In a grave mishap, 11 people were killed when a massive 70-tonne jetty crane collapsed during a load test in the Hindustan Shipyard Limited in Visakhapatnam on Saturday, said to be th
NEW DELHI, August 1 (Reuters) - India on Wednesday approved a plan to allow foreign universities to open campuses in the country as part of efforts to boost education to strengthen the economy as it strugg
Gwalior, August 1 (IANS): Infuriated over the condition of an office toilet used by women employees in a state government office building here, Madhya Pradesh Energy Minister Pradyuman Singh Tomar decided to se
New Delhi, August 1 (IANS): India witnessed a record daily jump of 57,117 new Coronavirus cases on Saturday apart from 764 deaths, even as its total tally neared 17 lakh. So far, 16,95,988 corona cases have bee
New Delhi, August 1 (PTI): India's COVID-19 tally reached 16,95,988 on Saturday with a record single-day increase of 57,118 cases, while the recoveries surged to 10,94,374, according to the Union health min
CHENNAI, July 31 (Reuters) - Ten men died in Andhra Pradesh on Friday after consuming alcohol-derived sanitizer, as local liquor shops were closed due to a coronavirus-related lockdown, police said.
The deat
New Delhi, July 31 (PTI): The Delhi University has said that it will begin the 2020-2021 academic session from August 10 with online classes for undergraduate and postgraduate students.
The university had an
New Delhi, July 31 (PTI): China's recent aggression in India's eastern Ladakh and claims for the real estate in Bhutan are indicative of its intentions, United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has
New Delhi, July 31 (IANS) Educators across the country have lauded the National Education Policy (NEP) approved by the Union Cabinet for introducing many reformations in the Indian education system after 34 yea
New Delhi, July 31 (IANS) Former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi in his conversation with 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner and Bangladesh Grameen Bank founder Muhammad Yunus said on Friday that the novel coronavirus p
Jaipur, July 31 (IANS) Amid allegations of horse trading, the Rajasthan Congress MLAs staying at a hotel in Jaipur have been shifted to Jaisalmer for the next 14 days on Friday. The Rajasthan Assembly is schedu
Srinagar, July 31 (IANS) The Jammu and Kashmir government on Friday extended the detention of former Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti under the Public Safety Act (PSA) for another three months.
An order issued
New Delhi, July 31 (IANS) The Central government on Friday extended the suspension on scheduled commercial international flight operations to and from India till August 31.
"The government has decided t
New Delhi, July 31 (IANS) Reiterating his commitment to launch WhatsApp Pay for over 400 million users of the messaging platform in India, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that the Reliance Jio partnership is
Chandigarh, July 31 (IANS): Even as at least 21 persons died due to alleged consumption of spurious liquor in Amritsar, Batala and Tarn Taran districts of Punjab, Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Friday ordere
New Delhi, July 31 (IANS): Pakistan Army's Special Service Group (SSG) has trained around 20 Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) and Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorists in Afghanistan to carry out attacks in India ahead of
New Delhi, July 31 (PTI): The number of recovered coronavirus patients crossed the 10-lakh mark on Thursday and is now 1.9 times the total active cases while the fatality rate has dropped to 2.21 per cent, the