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London (AP) England has canceled its women's friendly match against Germany on Tuesday after a member of its backroom staff tested positive for the coronavirus. The Football Association says it has made the decision in light of current protocols in Germ...

Senior doctors of North Corporation-run hospitals went on casual leave en masse on Monday as the crisis over pending salaries of medics of civic-run facilities deepened. R R Gautam, president of the Municipal Corporation Doctors' Association (MCDA) said...

While the recovery rate stands at 90.23 per cent, the fatality rate is 1.50 per cent, the data from the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare showed on Monday.

Asian shares were little changed in muted trading Monday amid widespread uncertainty over what the U.S. presidential election will portend for markets and economic policy.

Senior civic body officials, however, say that they were expecting people in large numbers to throng the markets ahead of the festival season and had organised frequent awareness initiatives.

The Rajasthan government on Sunday announced that 29 sports medallists will be appointed to the state service on an out-of-turn basis. It also said the daily allowance for players of the state will be doubled.

"His blood pressure, sugar and other vital parameters are normal at present. He is completely fine now. However, our doctors and nurses will continue to monitor his health at his residence," the doctor informed. The three-time chief minister had tested po...

Resident doctors of the North Corporation-run Hindu Rao Hospital on Sunday took their protest against non-payment of salaries to the streets and held a demonstration in Connaught Place here. They also burnt an effigy of Ravana to draw attention to their...

Uttar Pradesh's Gautam Buddh Nagar recorded 97 new COVID-19 cases on Sunday that pushed the infection tally to 16,864, official data showed. The number of active cases here came down to 1,082, constituting 6.4 per cent of the total cases, according to t...

An advocate Sunday wrote to Attorney General K K Venugopal seeking his consent to initiate contempt proceedings againstAndhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy and his press advisor for making allegations against a Supreme Court judge. BJP lea...

As fashion took a back seat for the customers amid the coronavirus pandemic as futuristic designer Rimzim Dadu and emerging creators Saaksha Bhat & Kinnari Kamat utilised the nationwide lockdown to figure out innovative ways to function and rebuild the bu...

The conference will be addressed by the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Bipin Rawat and all the three Service Chiefs. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh will address the conference on October 27.

The accused, hailing from Haridwar, would pose as a film star to lure and entice minors into online relationships during which he would ask them for pornographic photographs and videos which he used to trap them into his illicit net, officials said.

A suicide bombing at an education centre in Afghanistan's capital Kabul killed 24 people including teenage students and wounded dozens more on Saturday, officials said.

Melbourne (AP) A COVID-19 outbreak in the north of Melbourne has ledhealth authorities in Australia's Victoria state to hold off on any further easing of restrictions in the beleaguered city. Victoria Premier Daniel Andrews withheld any announcement on...

The United Nations announced Saturday that 50 countries have ratified a U.N. treaty to ban nuclear weapons triggering its entry into force in 90 days, a move hailed by antinuclear activists but strongly opposed by the United States and the other major nuc...