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Paddy procurement for kharif 2020-21 is continuing at a good pace in Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand, Chandigarh, Jammu & Kashmir, Kerala and Gujarat with purchase of over 170.53 lakh tonne of paddy till Tuesday against 134.85 lakh...

The talent search examination will be conducted in two phases with the first one taking place in December this year and the second one in June, 2021.

India's largest electricity generator NTPC Ltd said on Wednesday it would borrow 50 billion yen ($478 million) from Japanese banks to fund the installation of emissioncutting equipment and green energy projects.

The Bengaluru-based company also announced 'Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Vision for 2030' as part of its commitments focused across core areas of climate change, technology for good, diversity and inclusion, energising local communities, eth...

Germany's government defended the accuracy of its coronavirus testing procedures on Wednesday, after a Bavarian laboratory delivered a run of false positives that it blamed on pressure of work and a shortage of reagents.

Shetti (53), who heads the Swabhimani Shetkari Sanghatna, a leading farmer organisation in Maharashtra, had tested positive for Covid-19 last month and later recovered from the infection.

From his jail cell, Chinedu Efoagui sent a plea. “I’m innocent,” he wrote his lawyer. “Have all the charges dropped.”

Bypolls to 28 state Assembly seats will be held on November 3 and the counting of votes will take place on November 10.

Senior doctors belonging to the Municipal Corporation Doctors' Association (MCDA) had gone on casual leave en masse over their pending salaries on Monday and begun an indefinite strike on Tuesday.

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will visit Vietnam on Thursday and Friday as part of a tour of Asia, the Vietnamese government said.

With a nearly 38-40 per cent vote share, the Kurmis are a strong electoral base in Jangalmahal that comprises Jhargram, Purulia, West Midnapore and Bankura. Since 1977, they had blessed the CPI(M), but in 2011 they went in favour of the TMC. And in last y...

Indian shares ended lower after a choppy session on Wednesday as weak global cues stemming from spiking COVID19 cases worldwide and uncertainty over the U.S. presidential election eclipsed optimism from strong domestic earnings reports.

Heres whats happening Wednesday in Election 2020, six days until Election Day:

The BJP government has also done away with the historic Big Land Estate Abolition Act, 1950 — under which the Sheikh Abdullah-led government, had distributed and shared land with the poor local tenants. Under the Act, huge landmasses were taken away to en...

New York police arrested about 30 people as hundreds of protesters took to the streets in Brooklyn late on Tuesday following a deadly police shooting in Philadelphia of a Black man armed with a knife.

Shares around the world tumbled on Wednesday as coronavirus infections grew rapidly in Europe and the United States, igniting fears of possible strict lockdown measures that could damage already fragile economic recoveries.