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Police have arrested five persons for allegedly running an IPL betting racket from a hotel near Calangute beach in North Goa district, an official said on Sunday. The Calangute police conducted a raid at the hotel on Saturday and nabbed five persons for...

The state government will introduce the amendments in the Legislative Assembly on Tuesday, October 13, which is commencing to make amendments to the GHMC Act and take up other business.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has taken a decision in favour of granting a 5 per cent reservation to ex-servicemen of all the three wings of the armed forces in 'group B' government jobs, an official release issued said.

Twenty patients of the novel coronavirus at civic-run Hindu Rao Hospital were shifted to two Delhi government facilities on Saturday while three in the intensive care unit were retained, officials said. Seventeen were shifted to LNJP Hospital and three...

Speaking to reporters, Glenn Ticlo, chairman of the state Industrial Development Corporation, said the onus of the death of factory worker Kishan Kumar (23) on Friday lay with the factory management, adding that the Corporation had written to the food pro...

The incident took place in Katyara village when the people had gathered to attend a function, he said, adding they have been admitted to hospitals in Hamirpur and Tounidevi.

BJP MP Hema Malini on Saturday said she has written to the Ministry of External Affairs regarding reopening the Post Office Passport Seva Kendra (POPSK) at Vrindavan. The services at the Post Office Passport Seva Kendra at Vrindavan here have been suspe...

A 52-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly posing as an Indian Foreign Service officer and duping people with bogus government job offers, police said on Saturday. Prem Vakapalli, who hails from Karnataka, used to tell people he was attached to t...

Maharashtra BJP chief Chandrakant Patil on Saturday said the Uddhav Thackeray government was "most confused" on all fronts and claimed the decision to postpone MPSC exams should have been taken much earlier if it had been done for the novel coronavirus...

Vijayvargiya's comments came a day after police booked him along with senior BJP leaders like Mukul Roy, Dilip Ghosh, Arvind Mennon and MPs Arjun Singh and Locket Chatterjee for rioting and violating the Epidemic Diseases Act.

Four minor earthquakes were recorded in the Porbandar area in Gujarat's Saurashtra region on Saturday, officials said. No casualty or damage to property was reported.

Mohammedan Sporting will look to put their missed chances from the previous game behind as they play newcomers ARA FC in the I-League Qualifiers here on Sunday. The match will be played at the Vivekananda Yuba Bharati Krirangan.

"There are 8,83,185 active cases of COVID-19 which constitute merely 12.65 per cent of the total cases of the country. These are nearly 1/8th of the total cases in the country," the ministry underlined. "For the second day after the active cases dropped b...

In a letter to Union Minister for Education Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank, the DMK leader said there was a blatant and deliberate violation of the OBC Reservation Policy in NLUs.

An African national suspected of supplying drugs in the country was arrested with 340 gram of heroin, police said on Saturday. Gnakpa Nestor, 34, was held Friday night when the police had deployed its technical and manual surveillance to nab drug peddle...

Those arrested are Shankar Tiu, Roshan Kujur, Suraj Patro and Sunny Soren, the officer said. A country-made pistol and two live cartridges were also recovered from them, he added.