The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday raided several residential and other premise of former Uttar Pradesh Minister Gayatri Prasad Prajapati, his driver and sons in connection with an illegal mining scam....
Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan has written to all the states and union territories asking them to curb crowding in the wake New Year celebration and keep a strict vigil on all events that could be a potential superspreader, the ministry said on Wednesday. ...
Three terrorists were killed in an encounter between the terrorists and the security forces in the Lawaypora area in Srinagar outskirts on Wednesday, officials said....
Just when the world breathed a bit easy after countries like the UK and the US starting the process of vaccination against Covid-19, reports of a new strain found in the UK with properties to spread much faster than the dominant strain triggered many questions including whether the new strain has the ability to evade vaccine-induced immunit...
After six returnees from the UK were found to be carrying the new coronavirus variant, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) will now look at the seriousness of the disease caused by the mutation, its behaviour and immunology, a senior government official said on Tuesday....
Kerala state Finance minister and senior leader of the CPM, Dr TM Thomas Issac has said that there is nothing to be ashamed of in appearing before the ethics committee of the Kerala legislative assembly. While appearing before the ethics committee of the assembly, he said that he has not done any breach of privilege by di...
In continuation of the talks he had with representatives of the orthodox church in Kerala a day earlier, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday gave a patient hearing to officials of the Jacobite church at the PMO in Delhi....
In his New Year's message, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called on the international community to make 2021 "a year of healing"....
The state Basic Education Department in Uttar Pradesh is now providing graded reading books to enhance the educational skills of more than 1.5 crore students studying in primary schools. These graded reading books will increase the students' ability to read and learn...
Hours after deputy chairman, S. L. Dharme Gowda's body was found on a railway track, Janata Dal (S) second-in-command, H. D. Kumarswamy on Tuesday demanded that a fact-finding committee must be constituted to find out the real reasons behind his death. Kumaraswamy told reporters that Gowda was truly upset with the incidents t...
