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Advocate Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay said he was filing PIL because out of 539 winners of the Lok Sabha election in 2019, as many as 233 (43%) declared criminal cases against themselves.

Shooting at the upcoming Film City in Gautam Buddh Nagar can begin in three to four months from now, senior government official Awanish Awasthi said Sunday, according to BJP MLA Dhirendra Singh. Additional Chief Secretary (Home) and Information Awanis...

A major fire broke out at an electronics firm in Greater Noida on Sunday, officials said. The fire was reported around 1.15 pm in Ecotech Extension 1 area and firefighting is underway, the officials said.

Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut confirming the meeting said that it was an interview for the Shiv Sena’s mouthpiece 'saamna', which is headed by Raut.

Travellers from Dubai and the UK were primary sources of COVID19 importations into India, according to an analytical study done by Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Mandi. According to the research, which has been published in the Journal of Travel M...

Dissident Akali leader Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa on Sunday said the Shiromani Akali Dal snapped ties with the NDA out of compulsion as farmers were angry with it over the farm bllls. The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) had on Saturday quit the National Democratic...

Enduring one of his leanest spells, India's Shubhankar Sharma carded a six-over 76 with four bogeys, a double bogey and no birdies at the Dubai Duty Free Irish Open. Sharma is now right at the bottom at T-67th.

Canberra (AP) Prime Minister Scott Morrison says the Australian budget, to be delivered Oct. 6, will be a titanic effort to return the country to economic growth amid the coronavirus pandemic. Morrison told reporters Sunday that the budget will the most...

US President Donald Trump has nominated Judge Amy Coney Barrett for the Supreme Court to fill up the vacancy following the death of Judge Ruth Bader Ginsberg. Barrett, 48, is currently a judge on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, for which she was nominat...

The national capital reported 46 COVID-19 deaths on Saturday, the highest in over 70 days, taking the toll to 5,193, while 3,372 fresh cases pushed the tally to 2,67,822, authorities said. This is the highest number of deaths reported in a day since Jul...

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Saturday said the Congress sought votes in the 2018 Assembly polls in the name of Jyotiraditya Scindia but "betrayed" people of the state by making Kamal Nath the chief minister. He was addressing a...

Himachal Pradesh recorded 317 fresh COVID-19 cases on Saturday, taking the infection tally in the state to 13,997. The COVID-19 death toll in the state rose to 160 with seven more fatalities, officials said.

Fortis Healthcare's MD and CEO Dr Ashutosh Raghuvanshi handed the contribution cheque to ICMR's director-general, Dr Balram Bharghav and senior financial advisor of the apex research institute Rajiv Roy.

Farmers in Punjab continued their rail roko agitation at several places on Saturday in protest against the farm-related Bills passed by Parliament recently. The movement of trains in the state remained suspended in the wake of the "rail roko" agitation,...

Forest cover in Gujarat increased between 2006 and 2017 but the tree cover decreased, the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has noted in a report. "Tree cover" comprises tree patches outside recorded forest area, exclusive of forest cover, the repor...

A 25-year-old man was swept away in the swelling Parvati river, along with his cousin, after they fell off a motorcycle when going to a hospital where his wife delivered a baby in Rajasthan's Baran district, police said. The body of 25-year-old Mahendr...