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PM Modi inaugurated the 1.9 kilometre-long bridge via video conference from Delhi, while Nitish Kumar, along with Bihar Governor and Deputy CM attended the programme from Patna.

A 20-year-old ballet enthusiast, who is the son of an e-rickshaw driver in Delhi, is using a crowdfunding campaign to raise money to pay the fees for a training course at the famed English National Ballet School in London. Kamal Singh dreams of represent...

A Samajwadi Party delegation on Friday met Uttar Pradesh Governor Anandiben Patel and sought her intervention to check the alleged harassment of opposition leaders by the BJP-led state government due to political vendetta. It also brought to her notice...

A total of 126 public complaints regarding improper management of biomedical waste were received in the last two years, with notices issued to healthcare facilities in Rajasthan, Assam and Madhya Pradesh, the environment ministry informed the Lok Sabha on...

n official statement said that Bhutan's King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck spoke to the prime minister on his birthday on Thursday to convey his greetings.

Johannesburg (AP) South Africa should know its true toll from the coronavirus pandemic within a few weeks, the government's chief medical adviser says, as the country prepares to almost fully reopen its economy after bringing the first surge in cases unde...

The remains of Stephanie Hesser were found only after her daughter flew in from Germany, after she failed to get through to her mother over the last few weeks despite several call.

The Airports Authority of India (AAI) is upgrading the Tuticorin airport by initiating a project that includes widening the runway, constructing new air traffic control (ATC) tower and a new terminal building, said an official statement on Friday. The u...

Rajasthan Congress president Govind Singh Dotasra on Friday alleged there are discrepancies in the three farm bills passed by the Lok Sabha and that these will only benefit "big industrialists". The bills, passed by the Lok Sabha, will now to be tabled...

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Friday alleged that youth are facing injustice due to unemployment and poor state of recruitment processes in Uttar Pradesh. She also asserted that employment was youth's right and the government will have to giv...

Greenland and Antarctica's ice sheets could together contribute more than 38 centimetres to global sea level rise by 2100, if greenhouse gas emissions continue, according to a study led by NASA. The findings are in line with projections in the Intergov...

Tightening the rules for telcos, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) on Friday issued directions on tariff publication and tariff advertisements.

Decommissioned aircraft carrier of the Indian Navy, 'Viraat', will begin its last journey on Saturday from Naval Dockyard here for Alang in Gujarats Bhavnagar district where it will be dismantled. According to an Indian Navy statement here, the historic...

To separate such students from others in the same class due to non-availability of a gadget or a device would generate 'a feeling of inferiority' that may 'affect their hearts and minds unlikely ever to be undone', the court said.

Sixty-five per cent of the coal-fired power plants in India may not be able to comply with emission norms, as notified by the Union Environment ministry, even by the extended deadline of 2022, an environment think tank said on Friday. In its latest asse...

Ahead of the bypolls to 27 Assembly seats in Madhya Pradesh, former state BJP MLA Parul Sahu joined the Congress on Friday. She joined the opposition party in the presence of former state chief minister Kamal Nath.