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Chhattisgarh's COVID-19 count rose to 84,234 after 2,617 people were detected with the infection on Saturday, while 19 deaths took the toll to 664, an official said. The day also saw the discharge of 1,176 people from various hospitals post recovery whi...

Six more persons died of COVID-19 in Chandigarh, taking the fatalities toll to 116 in the Union Territory, a medical bulletin said on Saturday. The infection tally rose to 9,796 with 290 fresh coronavirus cases in the UT.

The Goa bench of Bombay High Court on Saturday upheld the order of a special court acquitting all the accused charge-sheeted by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in connection with a bomb blast that took place in Margao in 2009. As per the NIA, th...

Uttar Pradesh's Gautam Buddh Nagar on Saturday recorded 174 new COVID-19 cases that pushed the district's infection tally to 11,217, official data showed. The number of active cases, however, came down to 1,840 from 1,868 on Friday and 2,004 on Thursday...

:The nine-day 'Adhika Masam Brahmotsavam' held once in three years began at the shrine of Lord Venkateswara at Tirumala, near here, on Saturday. The 'brahmotsavam' began with the hoisting of the 'Garuda' flag atop the golden 'dwajathambham' (flag...

Karnataka is not facing shortage of medical oxygen for COVID-19 patients, state Medical Education Minister K Sudhakar said on Saturday. To ensure that the state does not run out of supplies, the government is sourcing oxygen tanks from Gujarat, the...

Parties present in the meeting -- Shiv Sena, Congress, DMK, Trinamool Congress, YSR Congress and TDP -- requested Lok Sabha Speaker OP Birla to consider curtailing the session keeping in mind the rising number of coronavirus cases.

With 5,827 fresh COVID-19 cases, the total number of those infected by the virus in Uttar Pradesh went up to 3,48,517 on Saturday. A total 4,953 fatalities have been reported in the state so far while the number of active cases stood at 66,874, Add...

The Uttar Pradesh police on Saturday arrested a man for allegedly duping over 600 people of around Rs 60 crore on the promise of a 60 percent return on their investments. The Special Task Force of the UP police said it arrested the racket's m...

India recorded 93,337 new infections in the last 24 hours, and has been posting the highest single-day caseload in the world since early August.

Faced with farmers abandoning agriculture due to wild animal attacks on their crops, the Himachal government has launched a scheme to provide for fencing around farmlands, including solar fencing, attracting fulsome praise from beneficiaries....

The court is likely to take up the matter for consideration on September 21. According to the sources, the probe report filed on Friday details the alleged role played by Michel, Saxena and others in bringing bribes for politicians, bureaucrats and Indian...

The Uttar Pradesh police's Special Task Force has arrested the former state head of a TV news channel for allegedly duping a man of Rs 9.72 crore along with a few others, a statement issued here on Saturday said. The accused, Santosh Mishra, was arreste...

As his name is mentioned in the revised list of Business of the Lok Sabha for Saturday, it seems Shah would join the lower house to move the National Forensic Sciences University Bill, 2020 for its passage. The Lok Sabha will meet at 3 p.m. on Saturday.

The body of a 27-year-old man was on Saturday found at his rented accommodation in Uttar Pradesh's Noida in a case of suspected suicide, police said. The man worked as an auto-rickshaw driver and lived with his wife in Salarpur village under Sector...

UPSC IES 2020 and UPSC ISS 2020 exams are scheduled to be conducted in multiple shifts on October 16, 17 and 18. The admit card for the exams will be made available soon.