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On the augmentation of the testing capacity, ICMR Director General Balram Bhargava said gradually the capacity was increased and on August 21 it finally reached the landmark of testing one million COVID samples in a day.

UDF leader Ramesh Chennithala demanded a comprehensive probe into the blaze, while state BJP president K Surendran said it was a sabotage to destroy evidence.

In a statement, The Caravan magazine claimed that the incident began when the journalists were taking photographs of saffron flags that had been put up in the area, but some men approached them and asked them to stop.

Union Health Ministry Secretary Rajesh Bhushan said on the basis of 7-day rolling average the positivity rate of COVID-19 which was 11 per cent during the first week of August has come down to 8 per cent now.

Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police (South-West) Amit Kaushik has been asked to conduct a fact-finding inquiry and appropriate action will be taken based on it's findings, police said.

The vehicle driver Pradeep of HP's Ghumarvin in Bilaspur district and Rifleman Neema Dandoob of Arunachal Pradesh are missing.

The speaker had mandated a coronavirus test for all MLAs, Assembly staffers and officials ahead of the session beginning August 26. BJP MLAs Lakshman Napa, Ram Kumar Kashyap and Aseem Goel have also tested positive as have six Assembly staffers, officials...

Kryphsa FC have been left with minimal funds amid coronavirus pandemic as the Rs 50 lakh sum they were to receive from Manipur government is stuck in the process.

The Supreme Court Monday said it may order cancellation of spectrum allocation if telecom companies are not ready to pay the AGR-related dues owed to the government. It observed that the Department of Telecom (DoT) should cancel the spectrum licence if...

The plea said Rotawan suffered a bullet injury on her leg, while her father and brother, too, were sustained wounds. Because of several morbidities, it was not possible for her father and brother to earn a livelihood.

Dawood was moving about like a normal, rich Pakistani citizen in Karachi till 2016 but covert operations by Indian agencies put a stop to that. Now in 2020, his name has been added to the list of banned terrorists and uploaded on the website of Pakistan's...

The Union Minister said the RTI disposal rate had remained unaffected by the coronavirus pandemic and during certain given intervals of time, the disposal rate was even higher than the usual.

German doctors said on Monday that medical examinations indicated that Russia opposition figure Alexei Navalny, who is in a Berlin hospital after collapsing on a plane in Russia last week, had been poisoned.

The former US envoy to the UN is close to the Trump family and plans to campaign aggressively in his re-election bid over the next several weeks.

General Rawat said the option will be exercised only if all talks between the two armies and the diplomatic option fail to yield results.

New Zealand will extend the current coronavirus restrictions in its largest city of Auckland until Sunday night, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Monday.