New Delhi

Petrol prices have been unchanged for over a month now while diesel prices remained same for the 23rd straight day across the metros.

A debate is raging on whether the COVID-19 vaccine, which is yet to materialise, should be made available to people for free, with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) promising free doses of the vaccine in its manifesto for the Bihar polls.

India's COVID-19 tally climbed to 78.14 lakh with 53,370 fresh cases in a day. The death toll due to the infection mounted to 1,17,956, with the novel coronavirus virus claiming 650 lives in a span of 24 hours in the country, the ministry data updated at...

Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank, HCL Technologies and Bharti Airtel suffered losses in their market capitalisation during the week, while Hindustan Unilever Limited, Infosys, HDFC and Kotak Mahindr...

As many as 22 states and Union Territories, including Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Bihar, Jharkhand, Punjab, Arunachal Pradesh and Chandigarh, have less than 20,000 active cases.

Denmark Open Super 750: Kidambi Srikanth lost to Taiwan's Chou Tien Chen 22-20, 13-21, 16-21 in an hour and two minutes in the quarter-finals.

A bench headed by Chief Justice of India, SA Bobde, described the situation as an 'emergency', requiring the top court to step in before the problem of bad air and smog assumes unmanageable proportion.

Telangana and Maharashtra have so far in October received 143% and 78% more rainfall than normal respectively, according to data compiled by IMD.

The petition sought directions to the department of Justice for issuance of guides/handbooks of laws of general public interest in "plain" English and in vernacular so that layman can easily understand the law and procedure.

In a statement released on the occasion on Global Handwashing Day, UNICEF said lack of handwashing with soap puts millions at increased risk to COVID-19 and other infectious diseases.

The lawyer, appearing for the victim's family, also demanded that the proceedings of the case be shifted out of Uttar Pradesh to a court in the national capital.

The coronavirus death toll climbed to 1,10,586 with the virus claiming 730 lives in a span of 24 hours. For six days in a row the active cases of COVID-19 remained below 9 lakh.

Mufti was among hundreds of people and political leaders in the state who were taken into preventive custody hours ahead of the Centre revoking the special status of Jammu and Kashmir on August 5 last year.

Farmers in Punjab and Haryana and other states are protesting against new farm laws which they feel will lead to procurement in the hands of corporates and the end of minimum support price (MSP) regime.

Nitin Gadkari said that in line with the PM Modi's vision for a New India, development of world-class transport infrastructure has been prioritised through initiatives such as the Bharatmala Pariyojana.

Earlier this year, the UP government had cleared land hurdles for the global food and beverage major for then proposed Rs 500 crore project.