India

In 2018, the Supreme Court had banned the use of polluting firecrackers and allowed the sale of green firecrackers in a bid to control air pollution.

The Calcutta High Court on Friday ordered a fresh post-mortem examination on the body of a newborn baby, claimed to be that of the child of one Babun Mondal by a state-run hospital here but the man refused to accept it. Mondal claimed that the body w...

President Donald Trump is itching to get back on the campaign trail after being sidelined by a COVID19 infection but is unlikely to hold any inperson events until at least Monday, aides said on Friday.

A large number of incriminating documents and digital data in mobile phones, pen drives and computers have also been seized, it said.

Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Friday asked Sukhbir Singh Badal to refrain from commenting on the new farm laws till the SAD chief answers why Harsimrat Kaur Badal "didn't oppose" the ordinances when they were approved in the Union Cabinet. A...

Under the new facility, exempted establishments can bulk upload data and transfer the funds for large number of members, through a single payment.

An official told IANS that they have identified places in both urban and rural areas for the sero survey to be conducted in the district for Covid-19 infection.

Two more fatalities due to COVID-19 in Chandigarh raised the toll to 188 while 63 fresh cases pushed the infection count to 12,985 on Friday, according to a medical bulletin. The Union Territory has 1,292 active cases of the novel coronavirus, as of no...

An officer on Friday said that the police registered suo motu FIRs also against state BJP president Dilip Ghosh, national secretary Arvind Mennon and MPs Arjun Singh and Locket Chatterjee.

The girl was allegedly sexually assaulted and electrocuted last year at her home in Kurumbapatti village in Dindigul, police said, adding, one person had been arrested in connection with the incident.

Seven policemen were booked in Nagpur on the basis of an inquiry into a video showing them parading half-naked five minors and a man accused of armed robbery in a bar, an official said on Friday. The six accused had stormed a bar near Jaripatka bus stan...

Berlin (AP) Chancellor Angela Merkel is meeting with the mayors of Germany's largest cities as coronavirus cases rise in metropolitan areas. Germany's disease control center reported 4,516 new cases overnight Friday..

The social activist requested the Court to intervene as a ‘public fund’ cannot be distributed to a religious community because their basic function job is to do religious activity and the expenditure is beyond the ambit of Indian Constitution.

Three men have been arrested for allegedly misappropriating funds of a company to the tune of Rs 10 crore, the Delhi Police said on Friday. The accused -- Pramod Goel, Krishan Chand Bansal and Anil Gupta -- were directors in M/S Indirapuram Habitat Cen...

In the previous week ended September 25, the reserves had declined by $3.017 billion to $542.021 billion. During the reporting week, the increase in forex kitty was on account of rise in foreign currency assets (FCA), a major component of the overall rese...

The agency also rubbished claims of Rs 100 crore of alleged foreign funding to incite violence through the Hathras Dalit gangrape case, being recovered.