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Former Maharashtra minister and senior Congress leader Vinayakdada Patil died at a private hospital in Nashik following a brief illness, his family sources said. He breathed his last late on Friday night.

Hollywood star Jessica Chastain has replaced Oscar winner Michelle Williams in HBO limited series "Scenes from a Marriage". The show, a remake of Swedish master filmmaker Ingmar Bergman's 1973 miniseries, will also feature Chastain's "A Most Violent Yea...

The former editor of a New York newspaper once owned by President Donald Trump's soninlaw Jared Kushner was charged on Friday by federal prosecutors with cyberstalking three people in connection with his divorce.

For a few hours at the end of last week, Trump Tower in Chicago was lit up with the names of Trump's Democratic rival Joe Biden and his running mate Kamala Harris.

Between 8:30 pm Thursday and the same time Friday, 79,963 infections were recorded, bringing the total number since the start of the pandemic to nearly 8.5 million in the country.

J&J said it was 'planning to resume recruitment' for the phase 3 trial, which began in late September and should ultimately include 60,000 participants.

Luviena Lodh, who starred in Mahesh Bhatt's 2010 release "Kajraare" starring Himesh Reshammiya and Sara Loren has accused the filmmaker of harassing her and her family.

United Nations (AP) The president of the United Nations General Assembly has expressed concern that New York Mayor Bill de Blasio rejected a meeting with him to discuss the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the work of the 193-member world organization....

As a socio-cultural event that is awaited by Bengalis across the state and outside and is a means of livelihood for a section of the people associated with it, the directives by the High Court has left a bitter taste in the mouth for many puja organisers.

A federal oil lease sale in November will be the first in a decade to offer 10year leases at some depths.

Addressing a meeting of AICC general secretaries and state-incharges which she presided over, Gandhi also alleged that the country was being ruled by a government which was "systematically" handing over the rights of citizens to a handful of crony capital...

Surat's COVID-19 tally on Sunday rose to 32,952 with the addition of 239 new cases, the highest in the state, while 270 people were discharged during the day, a health official said. Two deaths took the toll to 991, he added.

Days after the BJP fielded five former Congress MLAs in Gujarat by-polls, the Congress Sunday accused the saffron party of luring legislators in the state through monetary or other inducements and demanded a judicial inquiry into it. Congress spokespers...

Services on the 20-km monorail line in the financial capital resumed on Sunday, after nearly seven months of closure following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. The single line, which had been struggling with ridership numbers before the pa...

Since the weather office has forecast more rains in the next couple of days, the GHMC, as a precautionary measure, is evacuating residents of low-lying areas.

Bangkok (AP) Pro-democracy activists in Thailand launched their fifth straight days of protests on Sunday, scheduling demonstrations not just in the capital but also at several other locations around the country. The demonstrators received a new warnin...