India will not allow Chinese companies to participate in highway projects, including those through joint ventures, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari said on Wednesday amid border standoff with China....
In view of the COVID-19 pandemic, Mumbai police on Wednesday imposed section 144 prohibiting movement of one or more persons in public places or gathering of any sort anywhere, including religious places, subject to certain conditions. The Prohibitory order issued by Mumbai’s Deputy Police Commissioner Pranaya Ashok will remain in force till 15 Ju...

Actor-turned-politician Rajinikanth on Wednesday expressed shock at the way the Sathankulam police officials behaved with a Magistrate who had gone to the police station to inquire into custodial deaths and said the concerned officials should be punished. ...

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday interacted with four nurses, three of them also Indian-origin but stationed across the globe, to discuss their experiences as frontline warriors against novel coronavirus and described them as a "non-violent army". ...
As Covid-19 infection cases in Delhi on a steep rise, the Central government takes help of Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and armed forces to set up a 1,000 bed hospital in the national capital. The hospital will have 250 intensive care unit beds. The Home Ministry is monitoring the setting of the hospital whi...

Six workers were killed and 17 others injured when a boiler in a thermal power unit (TPS II) of NLC India Ltd exploded on Wednesday, officials said....

The Kerala Cabinet on Wednesday gave the nod to increase bus fares to be in force during the coronavirus crisis....

A total of 687 Indians stranded in Iran were brought to V.O. Chidambaranar Port in Tuticorin on Wednesday by Indian Navy Ship Jalashwa, a defence official said....
The Tihar Jail authorities on Wednesday apprised a Delhi court that Kashmiri separatist leader Shabir Shah has been accommodated in a separate cell and is being given medical facilities amid the coronavirus fear....
In an effort to curb the spread of coronavirus, the Tripura government will soon start free distribution of Vitamin-C enriched juice and fruits among people in urban areas to increase their immunity, a minister said here on Wednesday....