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The city recorded a 24-hour average air quality index (AQI) of 364. It was 367 on Saturday, 374 on Friday, 395 on Thursday, 297 on Wednesday, 312 on Tuesday, and 353 on Monday.

Veteran actor Soumitra Chatterjee, who has been under treatment at a private hospital in Kolkata after he tested COVID-19 positive 25 days back, was given blood transfusion on Sunday after his haemoglobin count dropped a bit, one of the attending doctor...

The Centre and the states are two wheels of development, and there has to be cooperative federalism and united action, to help the people, West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar told reporters.

In Guwahati, Assam Minister and senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Saturday that solving the vexed inter-state border disputes of Assam with other northeastern states is top of the agenda for the party.

In a social media post, Naidu said his fervent wish was to make every child familiar with the life and contribution of Patel. Similarly every civil servant must read his speeches and every politician must imbibe Patel's great qualities like integrity, fir...

Gangwar, who is the parliamentarian from Bareilly in Uttar Pradesh, told reporters here that his family members had recently gone to Delhi where they contracted the infection. All of them have been admitted to the ESI Hospital in Faridabad.

The ministry said 23 states and union territories in the country have a CFR lower than the national average, while 65 per cent of the total deaths so far were recorded in five states.

Hollywood veteran Robert De Niro's comedy "The War with Grandpa"will release in India on Diwali. The announcement was made by multiplex chain PVR Pictures in a statement, saying that it will release the movie in the theatres on November 13. The family...

Shringla is in France on the first leg of his week-long three-nation Europe tour. From France, he will travel to Germany and the UK.

The Left lends a sense of credibility and progressivism to the alliance, which in terms of perception was much required for the grand alliance, an analyst said.

The Rajasthan government's move to introduce the amendment bill comes days after the Punjab assembly adopted a resolution against the farm laws and unanimously passed four bills to counter the Centre's contentious legislations.

While the deadline for filing ITR by individual taxpayers has been extended by a month till December 31, the due date for those taxpayers whose accounts need to be audited has been extended to January 31, 2021.

Healthy sales during a recent festival encouraged Indian jewellers to continue stocking up this week, while more supply started to make its way into Singapore and Hong Kong as dealers navigate around COVID19led bottlenecks.

"Anti-ship missile fired by Indian Navy's Guided Missile Corvette INS Kora hits the target at max range with precise accuracy in Bay of Bengal. Target ship severely damaged and in flames," the Navy tweeted.

A murder case was registered against Keshav in 1996. He was arrested and sent to jail. However, he came out on bail a year later, said Superintendent of Police, Shahjahanpur, S Anand. Ever since the court had been issuing warrants asking him to appear bef...

India saw a daily spurt of 48,648 coronavirus infections, taking its tally to 8.09 million, health ministry data showed on Friday.