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The Consumer Protection Act 1986 came into effect on this day. Safeguarding rights of a consumer is an important aspect for any nation. The CPA 1986 was enforced so that consumers can be more aware of their entitled rights.

Besides, langars (community kitchens) and night shelters have also been set up at the protest venues. Medicines and ambulance facility are also being provided to the agitating farmers, DSGMC president Manjinder Singh Sirsa said.

Washington (AP) US officials say they are on track to deliver 20 million vaccine doses by the first week of January, but how quickly those shots will get into arms isn't clear. In a briefing with reporters Wednesday, Operation Warp Speed official Gen. G...

A bench headed by Chief Justice S A Bobde had given liberty to the petitioner to serve the impleaded farmer unions.

In a series of tweets, Shah also thanked the people of Jammu and Kashmir for voting the BJP as the single largest party in the maiden DDC polls.

COVAXIN, an inactivated vaccine candidate, is currently undergoing Phase III human clinical trials on 26,000 volunteers at 25 centres across India, after having undergone Phase I and II trials involving 1,000 volunteers.

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Close to 120 passengers, including the patients and their family members, have been provided emergency evacuation from Yemen to India.

The force has put across this point recently before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs and the home ministry in the wake of the Centre mulling on a proposal to gradually remove border-guarding forces from security duties in the hinterlan...

Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa made the announcement following a meeting with Health Minister K Sudhakar, members of the state Technical Advisory Committee for COVID-19 and senior officials.

Declining to quash the case against Yediyurappa on Tuesday, Justice Michael Cunha directed the Lokayukta special court to monitor the investigation ordered by the courts with regard to the misconduct of MPs, MLAs involved in criminal offences.

Table Tennis prodigy Hansini is hard at work honing her skills for not less than six hours daily.

Reading out a letter by Samyukt Kisan Morcha, a joint front of the farmer unions, Swaraj India leader Yogendra Yadav asked the government to not repeat "meaningless" amendments to the new agri laws that they have already rejected but come up with a concre...

Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora made it clear that the officials would 'not be summoned' but called by the Commission.

The case relates to alleged illegal denotification of land for an IT corridor way back in 2006, against which a private complaint was filed in 2013 in the Lokayukta court.

The teenaged student was beaten up on Friday night after which he was hospitalised first in Noida and then in Delhi, where he died on Sunday, police said.