India

In a shocking incident, the bodies of a bullion trader and all three members of his family, including his two sons in their early twenties, were found hanging in separate rooms of their house in Jamdoli area, police said on Saturday. Trader Y...

China has eased restrictions on performance venues, including film theatres, allowing them to fill 75 per cent of their operating capacity as the COVID-19 cases declined, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism said in a statement on Saturday. Moreover, comme...

A 24-year-old COVID-19 positive woman died after giving birth at the COVID care centre here on Saturday, officials said. The child is said to be in good health.

A 45-year old woman was allegedly raped in front of her nephew who was also forced to sexually assault her in Rajasthan's Alwar district, police said on Saturday. The accused also shot a video of the incident and circulated it on social media following w...

No trucks loaded with onion were allowed to move to the neighbouring country at the Petrapole integrated checkpost, the largest facility along the India-Bangladesh border, as they have no Let Export Order (LEO), an official of the customs department said.

Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Saturday asked Akalis to stop "lying and misleading" the people of the state by "picking selective portions" of the Congress manifestos, saying it did not even remotely propose any of the anti-farmer moves that the...

Encouraged by a successful project for potato crop seeds, Chief Minister Amarinder Singh has approved deployment of advanced traceability certification through blockchain technology to ensure that farmers are not cheated with fake and uncertified seeds, a...

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Faced with farmers abandoning agriculture due to wild animal attacks on their crops, the Himachal government has launched a scheme to provide for fencing around farmlands, including solar fencing, attracting fulsome praise from beneficiaries....

Raising the demand in Rajya Sabha during the Zero Hour, Ahmad Patel said the Centre must increase spending to provide digital support to poor students.

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K Palaniswami and Deputy Chief Minister O Panneerselvam have an excellent understanding similar to what was seen between Lord Rama and his brother Lakshmana, Revenue Minister R B Udhayakumar said here on Saturday. The duo were le...

Congress leader Ahmed Patel raised the issue of digital divide amid online schools during the pandemic while BSP's Rajaram raised the issue of reservation for Scheduled Castes and Other Backward Classes in the Jammu region in the Upper House.

The figures released at 8 am showed that while 95,880 people recovered from COVID19 in a span of 24 hours, 93,337 new infections were recorded during the period. With the latest inclusions, the total number of cases mounted to 53,08,014 and the recoveries...

IAS officer S Aparna will take over after the retirement of incumbent PD Vaghela, an official statement said on Friday.

A senior police official said the journalist was found to be in possession of some defence-related classified documents.

The government has launched an information and communications technology (ICT) contest to create innovative, modular and cost-effective solution to develop a smart water supply measurement and monitoring system to be deployed at the village level, accordi...