RAIPUR JATTAN, July 23 (Reuters): For more than two decades, Indian farmer Ravindra Kajal cultivated rice the way his forefathers had - every June he flooded his fields with water before hiring an army of
New Delhi, July 23 (IANS) India on Thursday recorded the highest single day spike of 45,720 fresh Covid-19 cases in 24 hours taking the total tally to 12,38,635, the Union Health Ministry data revealed.
With
New York, July 23 (IANS) US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday that he was confident that through "concerted effort", India and the US can protect their interests in the face of China
New Delhi, July 22 (PTI): The Supreme Court Wednesday issued notices to Attorney General K K Venugopal and advocate Prashant Bhushan on the contempt proceedings it has initiated against the activist-lawyer for
New Delhi, July 22 (PTI): India added 37,724 fresh cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday taking the country's tally to11,92,915, while recoveries surged to 7,53,049 with 28,472 people having recuperated in a day,
Lucknow, July 22 (PTI): BSP chief Mayawati on Wednesday said "crime virus" spread by criminals is more active than coronavirus in Uttar Pradesh.
"The way heinous crimes like murder and those a
Balasore (Odisha), July 22 (PTI): India has successfully conducted three flight tests of its indigenously developed anti-tank guided missile 'Dhruvastra' from the Integrated Test Range at Chandipur in O
MUMBAI, July 22 (Thomson Reuters Foundation): Coronavirus quarantine charges levied by an Indian state on migrant workers who are being flown home from Gulf nations will drive many returnees further into d
RAIGAD, July 22 (IANS): Hundreds of angry Bodni villagers, including at least 2 Covid-19 patients, trooped out on the road to defy the government, police and medical teams coaxing them to undergo Covid-19 tests
NEW DELHI, 22 JULY (IANS): A woman resolutely held out against against two motorcycle-borne men who tried to kidnap her four-year-old child in Shakarpur area of east Delhi, forcing them to flee without their bi
NEW DELHI, July 22 (Reuters): India's recent border clash with China was the latest example of the Chinese Communist Party's "unacceptable behaviour," U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo
HYDERABAD, JULY 22 (IANS): Well-known child rights activist P. Achyuta Rao died of Covid-19 here on Wednesday. He was 58.
The founder of Balala Hakkula Sangham, an NGO fighting for child rights, breathed his
NEW DELHI, JULY 22 (IANS): Almost 12 days after the National Investigation Agency (NIA) registered a case in the Kerala gold smuggling issue, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) said on Wednesday it had also regis
NEW DELHI, JULY 22 (IANS): Prime Minister Narendra Modi met BJP Rajya Sabha MPs who took oath on Wednesday, maintaining social distancing, when he strongly advocated for use of the social media by the new membe
NEW DELHI, JULY 22 (IANS): Defence Minister Rajnath Singh reviewed the Indian Air Force's operational capabilities and deployments at forward locations on Wednesday amid the tense border situation with Chin
NEW DELHI, JULY 22 (IANS): A local court in Uttar Pradesh's Mathura on Wednesday sentenced 11 policemen, including the then Deputy Superintendent of Police, to life imprisonment in a case pertaining to the
CHENNAI, July 22 (Thomson Reuters Foundation): When Bajirao Thengde voiced his fears about going to work after dozens of colleagues fell sick with coronavirus, his boss at a motorbike factory in western India s
NEW DELHI, JULY 22 (IANS): The Supreme Court on Wednesday accepted the appointment of a three-member inquiry commission headed by former top court judge Justice B.S. Chauhan into the encounter of gangster Vikas
New Delhi, Jul 21 (PTI) The Indian Navy''s Poseidon 8I anti-submarine warfare aircraft have been deployed in eastern Ladakh to carry out surveillance along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) and some of i
Washington, July 21(PTI): Describing the Chinese military's activities in the region as “destabilising”, US Secretary of Defence Mark Esper on Tuesday said America was "very closely" m