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Benchmark U.S. crude oil for November delivery fell 72 cents to $39.95 a barrel Wednesday. Brent crude oil for December delivery fell 66 cents to $41.99 a barrel.

A 25-year-old man was killed by an elephant when he was trying to chase away a herd of pachyderms in West Bengal's Bankura district, forest officials said on Wednesday. The incident happened near Kochdihi village of the district on Tuesday night, they s...

Newly appointed BJYM president Tejasvi Surya on Wednesday alleged that the Mamata Banerjee government has shut Nabanna out of fear ahead of the organisation's march to the state secretariat on Thursday. He said that it was expected that permission woul...

The North Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC) is working to install anti-smog guns at Bhalswa landfill site and a few other places in the city, a senior official said on Wednesday. Such guns, which spray a gush of water in the air to mitigate suspension...

Russian authorities evacuated more than 2,300 people from villages in the region of Ryazan on Wednesday and five people were taken to hospital after a blaze broke out at an ammunition depot, sending thick smoke belching into the air.

Sources say the Congress wants to steer clear of this but then Chowdhury is a shrewd politician who has managed to hold on to his turf in Murshidabad. And sources say he could make the point that Banerjee chose to remain quiet on the issue.

There is political will to implement bold steps to tackle pollution in Delhi, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said at'Daring Cities 2020' conference on Wednesday, asserting the odd-even scheme by his government brought down pollution in India's national ca...

Maharashtra Public Health Minister Rajesh Tope on Wednesday claimed that several mask manufacturing companies have sold masks at exorbitant prices. A committee set up for looking into complaints about exorbitant prices of masks has found that prices in...

Officials said that the Union Home Ministry convened a tripartite meeting on Wednesday to discuss ”issues related to the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration.

A city council in North Carolina has approved a resolution which apologizes for the shooting deaths of five demonstrators at a 1979 rally against the Ku Klux Klan and American Nazi Party.

Pralhad Joshi is the latest addition to prominent politicians from the state who have tested positive for Covid-19. Most of them have either recovered or under recovery.

Up to 150 million people could slip into extreme poverty, living on less than $1.90 a day, by late next year depending on how badly economies shrink during the COVID19 pandemic, the World Bank said Wednesday in an outlook grimmer than before.

The court directed the federal government to bear the cost of the advertisements and the additional attorney general Tariq Khokhar was asked to pay the fees within two days.

The government believes in press freedom but showing "provocative news" for the sake of TRP is not journalism and it must stop, Union minister Prakash Javadekar said on Wednesday. Speaking at an event organised by RSS newsletter Panchajanya, he said aft...

Former BJP MP Kirit Somaiya on Wednesday said Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh has assured probe by a senior officer into the recent death of a woman after she fell into an open drain in suburban Ghatkopar. The body of Sheetal Bhanushali was f...

Haryana reported 19 more fatalities linked to COVID-19 on Wednesday, raising the death toll to 1,528 while 1,283 fresh cases pushed the infection count to 1,37,398 in the state, according to a health department bulletin. Of the new deaths, five were re...