India

The Haryana Health Department is happy to announce that no death due to COVID-19 has been reported today (24-hour period), Additional Chief Secretary (Health) Rajeev Arora said.

A bench of justices L Nageswara Rao, Hemant Gupta and Ajay Rastogi rejected the plea of the additional district judge, saying that he can raise the ground of bias even after the inquiry against him gets over.

A Surat resident was arrested in Ankleshwar in Bharuch for allegedly possessing fake Indian currency notes (FICN) of Rs 50 denomination with a face value of Rs 2.8 lakh, police said on Sunday. Jignesh Raninga was held with 5,644 FICN pieces with a face...

Both the injured men were rushed to a nearby hospital for the treatment of their injuries, the official said.

Chinese video sharing app TikTok has promised to put more resources in Pakistan to improve its services after the authorities here blocked it over "indecent content", a media report said on Sunday. ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns TikTok, regrette...

The admission came at a time when several states, the latest being West Bengal, speaking about having entered the third stage of the pandemic, that is community transmission.

Gandhi called for the need to reconsider the country's economic policy as the one that encouraged industrialisation and urbanisation, causing huge population unsettlement and forcing farmers to migrate to the cities in large numbers, only spurred the COVI...

An employee of the West Bengal government was arrested for allegedly taking bribes from other staffers on the pretext of providing them suitable postings and transfers, an official said on Saturday. The person was apprehended on Friday by sleuths of the...

A man was arrested in Meghalaya's West Garo Hills after his attempt to rape a minor girl, which her clan members tried to hush up, was reported to the police, a spokesman of the force said on Saturday. The incident took place two days ago and the clan m...

Residents doctors of two COVID-19 facilities in Goa on Saturday threatened to go on strike if an order asking them to share rooms was not withdrawn. Later in evening, state health minister Vishwajit Rane said he had spoken to the chief minister to get the...

Eighteen deputy commissioners of Mumbai police were transferred within the metropolis, including an official who is part of the team probing the fake TRP racket involving television news channels. The orders were issued on Friday, an official said.

Directions had been issued to the health department to identify such staff who have kept away from work for years and take strict disciplinary action against them.

Gujjar leader Kirori Singh Bainsla on Saturday demanded the Rajasthan government to fulfil the past promises regarding reservation to the community, failing which an agitation will be launched from November 1. Bainsla had last year spearheaded the Gujja...

Vatican City (AP) The Vatican says someone who lives in the same Vatican hotel as Pope Francis has tested positive for coronavirus, adding to the 11 cases of COVID-19 among the Swiss Guards who protect him. The Vatican said Saturday that the resident o...

Former general secretary of the Aam Admi Party's (AAP) Goa unit Pradeep Padgaonkar on Saturday resigned from the primary membership of the party. Padgaonkar, who had contested last Lok Sabha election on AAP ticket from North Goa, resigned as the general...

Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Saturday said the BJP-led dispensation in the state has taken several initiatives in the last six years to bring transparency in the government machinery and rein-in corruption. "Radical changes have been ma...