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A total of 294 rape and murder cases were registered in 2018, and 283 cases were filed in 2019. The Committee was also informed that as per NCRB data, reporting of crimes against women has increased by 7.3% in 2019 compared to the year before.

This decline is particularly noteworthy because in other countries of the northern hemisphere there is a severe increase in the intensity of pandemic, an official said.

Outside experts warned against over-interpreting a new study suggesting mouth wash can “inactivate” coronaviruses and help curb their spread, noting that the findings might not have practical relevance to COVID-19.

In August, Pompeo said that China poses a threat to the West that is in some ways worse than that posed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War. What's happening now isn't Cold War 2.0.

A 19-year-old Dalit woman was allegedly raped by four upper-caste men in Hathras on September 14. She died on September 29 at Delhi's Safdarjung Hospital during treatment.

The price of silver has increased by Rs 5 per 10 grams. Today, it is priced at Rs 620, which means that one kilogram of the metal can be bought at Rs 62,000.

The United States, Russia, France and many other countries are setting records for coronavirus infections as a tidal wave of cases washes over parts of the Northern Hemisphere, forcing some countries to impose new curbs.

Ankara, Oct 26 (AP) Turkey's state-run news agency said there has been an explosion in a town near the border with Syria on Monday, but there was no immediate information on possible casualties or damage. Anadolu Agency said the explosion occurred in th...

Four days after former Telangana minister Nayani Narasimha Reddy died due to post COVID-19 complications, his wife who survived the infection,passed away due to multiple-organ failure on Monday,hospital sources said. Reddy passed away on October 22...

Uttar Pradesh's Gautam Buddh Nagar on Monday recorded 120 new COVID-19 cases which pushed the district's infection tally to 16,984, while the recovery rate improved marginally to 93.31 per cent, official data showed. The number of active cases came down...

Eight more fatalities due to COVID-19 pushed the death toll in Punjab to 4,125 on Monday, while 336 new cases took the infection tally to 1,31,391. One death each was reported from Amritsar, Hoshiarpur, Bathinda, Jalandhar, Kapurthala, Ludhiana, Mohali...

Russia's daily tally of new COVID19 cases soared to a record high of 17,347 on Monday as the Kremlin warned the pandemic was beginning to inflict a greater toll outside the capital Moscow.

Worried about a possible second wave of coronavirus, the Hindu community in South Africa is raising awareness among people on what should do during the coming Diwali celebrations to make the festival safe. The South African Hindu Maha Sabha (SAHMS) is e...

Rabins K Hameed, a resident of Muvattupuzha in Kerala's Ernakulam district, will be produced before a designated court on Tuesday for his remand by the agency, spokesperson and NIA Deputy Inspector General Sonia Narang said in a statement.

: Four Nepali nationals, including a woman, have been arrested for looting a businessman's house here, police said on Monday. The four committed the theft on October 19 and were arrested from Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, and here between October 22 and...

The case comes within a fortnight of a similar incident with fast food and snack company Haldiram's, whose servers were also attacked with ransomware, a virus used to encrypt data by hackers who then demand a ransom to decrypt it.