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The agitators also burnt tyres and blocked roads in several other parts of the state, including Hooghly, North 24 Parganas and South 24 Parganas districts.

Dhankhar urged CM Mamata Banerjee to contain the "explosive situation" and asked her to weigh the "repercussions of such failure of constitutional mechanism".

Thromboembolic events keep occurring in general population as background and scientific literature suggests that this risk is almost 70 per cent less in persons of South and South East Asian descent in comparison to those from European descent.

The Navy has rescued 62 people so far, adding the rescue operation would continue overnight.

The public notice by the Women and Child Development Ministry comes amid reports that several messages offering children, who have lost their parents to COVID, for adoption are circulating on social media.

During the hearing, WhatsApp told the court that implementation of its policy has not been deferred and it has come into effect from May 15.

This came after Delhi Chief Minister of Delhi Arvind Kejriwal extended the lockdown to May 24 to curb the spread of Covid-19.

The Delhi Police arrested businessman Navneet Kalra Sunday night for alleged black marketing and hoarding of oxygen concentrators amid the coronavirus pandemic, officials said. The businessman had been on the run for over a week since the seizure of mo...

Sanjay Kumar Nayak, a native of Durgadevipada village, under the jurisdiction of Rajkanika police station, had got married on May 10.

Many states either have halted the vaccination drive for the 18-44 age-group population or have only partially rolled it out, complaining about shortage of vaccine doses.

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The actual date and year of Shankara’s birth are debated because there are at least fourteen different biographies of him. The claims lie between 897 BCE to 12 BCE.

Adar Poonawalla- CEO of Serum Institute of India- company that has supplied almost 90 per cent of the Covid vaccines in India, has been in London for nearly a month

Shootings of TV serials, web series and films will come to a halt from May 16 in West Bengal as the state government imposed stricter lockdown norms to contain the spread of COVID-19 Shootings of 36 serials, three web series and one film were currently...

Tauktae, pronounced as Tau’Te, is very likely to intensify into a severe cyclonic storm in the next 6 hours.

The ban also covers vehicles that have All India tourist permits, the official added.