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Nine people were injured, two of them critically, in a major fire that broke out at an Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL) petrol pump near the Raj Bhavan here on Wednesday, police said. Five fire engines along with Odisha Disaster Rapid Action Force pe...

Maharashtra Public Health Minister Rajesh Tope on Wednesday claimed that several mask manufacturing companies have sold masks at exorbitant prices. A committee set up for looking into complaints about exorbitant prices of masks has found that prices in...

Republican Sen. David Perdue of Georgia is running a new ad that tries to paint Democratic rival Jon Ossoff as an extreme liberal by lobbing a fictitious claim that he was endorsed by the Communist Party USA.

Wisconsin health officials announced Wednesday that they've opened a field hospital at the state fairgrounds near Milwaukee as a surge in COVID19 cases threatens to overwhelm hospitals.

A woman delivered a baby boy inside IndiGo's Delhi-Bengaluru 6E122 flight on Wednesday, according to an official statement by the airline.

The Bombay High Court has granted bail to Rhea Chakraborty but her brother Showik and drug peddler Abdul Basit Parihar were refused bail.

A racket in smuggling of psychotropic drugs to foreign countries through the postal parcel service has been busted and a Madurai-based pharma exporter arrested, the Customs here said on Wednesday. A total of 455 tablets of Alprazolam, Lorazepam, Clo...

Both sides, through the MoC, will affirm cooperation in the international arena including in the United Nations, discussing and sharing strategies and best practices to promote the integrity of the supply chain of ICT (information communication technology...

President Donald Trump remained out of sight for a second day Wednesday as he recovers from COVID19, with the White House offering scant details about his health and activities.

The campaign will be launched with the aim to encourage people's participation and it endeavours to be a low-cost high-intensity campaign with the key message of "wear mask, follow physical distancing, maintain hand hygiene".

Karat has challenged the trial court's August 26 order by which her plea was rejected on the ground that the requisite sanction from the competent authority, the central government, was not obtained which was required under the law.

A 24-year-old man and his wife were arrested for allegedly duping a person of his money on the promise of giving him US dollars at lower exchange rates, the Delhi Police said on Wednesday. The accused were identified as Shahbaz and his 22-year-old wife...

Punjab's several farmers' bodies on Wednesday rejected the Union agriculture department's invitation for a meeting over the new farm laws, saying an officer does not have to tell them if these laws are beneficial for them. The agitating farmers...

What do we know about superspreader events in the pandemic?

A large mural dedicated to George Floyd in Minneapolis has been defaced again.