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Eight members — distributed among the Congress, CPI(M), Trinamool Congress and the AAP — were suspended earlier in the day for the remainder of the Monsoon session over their "unruly behaviour" during the passage of farm bills in the Rajya Sabha on Sunday...

Recovery rate is a wrong metric to be focusing on and it essentially shifts the attention away from the more than 1 million active cases which are still growing, albeit at a lower rate, experts say. This recovery rate will eventually hit at least 98%, if...

The woman suffered an injury on the nose when the man, who had earlier worked with her and now stationed in another office, attacked her, they said.

The Delhi Police has arrested a 37-year-old man who used to pose as a female model by creating a fake account on social media and collect nude photos of women on the pretext of giving them a chance to audition for a web series, officials said on Monday....

These are the top stories we are covering this evening: sources say government has approved MSP hike for Rabi crops amid protests against farm bills; two women officers set to join Indian Navy warship crew in historic first; IAF’s Rafale fleet to get firs...

The Bombay High Court on Monday dismissed a petition filed by BJP corporator Prabhakar Shinde seeking that he be recognised as leader of opposition in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation. A bench led by Justice SJ Kathawalla pronounced its verdict vi...

The Tamil Nadu government on Monday expanded the Amma mobile fair price shop scheme across the state, rolling out over 3000 such units to benefit more than 5.37 lakh ration card holders. Presently, 48 such mobile units were serving people in remote and...

The novel coronavirus tally in Thane rose to 1,58,703 after detection of 1,781 new cases in the Maharashtra district, an official said on Monday. Besides, the death toll increased to 4,143 as 27 more patients succumbed to the disease on Sunday, he said.

Haryana on Sunday reported 29 more fatalities, its highest single-day toll associated with COVID-19, taking the count to 1,149.

China sent numerous aircraft close to Taiwan during two days of drills from Friday, causing the island's air force to scramble, as Beijing expressed anger at the visit of a senior U.S. official to Taipei.

A threestorey residential building on the outskirts of Mumbai collapsed early on Monday killing at least eight people, local reports said.

Sacramento (US) (AP) California's death count from the coronavirus has surpassed 15,000 even as the state sees widespread improvement in infection levels. A tally by Johns Hopkins University put California's death toll at 15,027 on Sunday, the fourth-h...

Opposing an ordinance issued earlier this year to effect the salary and allowance cut, Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury said in Lok Sabha that the move was like being "penny wise and pound foolish."

Pune district in Maharashtra reported 3,667 new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, taking the count to 2,52,168, a health official said on Sunday. The death toll in the district reached 5,698 as 69 patients succumbed to the infection, he said.

A BJP legislator tested positive for COVID-19 on Sunday, two days after the Himachal Pradesh Assembly ended. Senior medical officer at Nerchowk's Shri Lal Bahadur Shashtri Medical College Nerchowk J N Chauhan said Sundernagar BJP MLA Rakesh Jamwal and h...

After visiting the ground where over a century-old fair is held, the committee conducted a two-hour-long meeting in which officials of the university and the district administration were present, a source in the institute said.