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The state was able to control the rise in reported number of infection cases with help from the central government, NGOs and local residents, said Kejriwal while thanking them for their efforts in containing the situation.

The Bombay High Court on Thursday refused to intervene in the Maharashtra government's decision to not open places of worship to the public in view of the COVID-19 pandemic. A bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice G S Kulkarni said the cou...

The ten states and UTs are Maharashtra, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Odisha, Delhi, Kerala, West Bengal and Chhattisgarh, the ministry said.

Officials said that Punjab loaded 990 rakes of FCI foodgrains in August this year and 816 rakes till September 23. Thus, FCI is loading more than 35 rakes of food grains daily from Punjab.

According to IMD, the national capital recorded only three rainy days this September, the lowest since 2016, when it witnessed just two rainy days.

Thane district of Maharashtra has added 1,935 new COVID-19 cases, taking it tally to 1,63,594, an official said on Thursday. The number of deaths has gone up to 4,234 with the addition of 29 fatalities on Wednesday, the official from the district admi...

A 29-year-old man was swept away in a swollen drain following heavy rainfall in Maharashtra's Thane district, police said on Thursday. The incident took place on Wednesday evening after heavy downpour caused flooding in several parts of Thane and neighb...

U.S. President Donald Trump declined on Wednesday to commit to a peaceful transfer of power if he loses the Nov. 3 election to Democratic rival Joe Biden and said he expected the election battle to end up before the Supreme Court.

A study by researchers from Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR) has been included in a book on evolution, the Department of Science and Technology said on Wednesday. The study by JNCASR, a Bengaluru-based institute under th...

The vaccine is currently being tested by Bharat Biotech Ltd in collaboration with the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR).

The Monsoon Session of the Parliament was adjourned sine die on Wednesday after 10 days during which the Lok Sabha delivered some record-breaking performances.

Uday Kotak was appointed by the government as the head of the lender's board in 2018 to help the troubled company come out of difficulties,

Twenty-seven more people died from coronavirus in Haryana on Wednesday as 1,986 fresh cases took the state's infection tally to 1,16,856. So far, the disease has claimed 1,233 lives in the state. Of the 27 fatalities on Wednesday, three each were re...

The CAG also painted a grim picture of efficacy of India's offset policy saying it did not find a single case of foreign vendors transferring high technology to the industry.

Fire fighters and local police have reached the spot and efforts are on to douse the flame. The reason behind the blaze could not be ascertained.

Indian manufacturers can produce around 3.48 crore RT-PCR combo kits per month, which gives the country a capacity to conduct around 11.35 lakh RT-PCR COVID-19 tests daily, the government said on Wednesday. The Central Drugs Standard Control Organisatio...