To promote affordable housing, stamp duty on new flats or apartments costing less than Rs 20 lakh would be reduced to 2 per cent from 5 per cent from April 1, said state chief minister B.S. Yediyurappa on Thursday....
The Yogi Adityanath government has made arrangements for medical screenings of all foreign passengers arriving at the Lucknow and Agra airports, in view of the coronavirus scare....
Actor turned politician Rajinikanth is meeting the district secretaries of Rajini Makkal Mandram on Thursday here....
The Karnataka forest department has found three newborn leopard cubs without their mother in a sugar cane field at Tumbala village in T. Narasipur taluk, Mysuru district, a forest official said on Wednesday....
More girls were getting education now than ever before but this gain made little headway in helping shape a more equal, less violent environment for females, the UN said in a report....
Calling the Bharatiya Janata Party "opportunistic and power-hungry", Congress General Secretary K.C. Venugopal here on Wednesday criticised the BJP for its alleged attempt to topple the Congress government in Madhya Pradesh through horse-trading, an allegation that has been denied by the BJP....
Britain has confirmed 36 new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday, bringing the country's total number of infections to 87 in its biggest day-on-day increase so far, according to the country's health authorities....
Racing greyhounds entering Australian's Victoria state will now be subjected to a 14-day quarantine period in an effort to curb an outbreak of canine coronavirus, officials said....
Even as the entire country worries over the outbreak of the deadly coronavirus, people belonging to the lower-income groups in Uttar Pradesh remain blissfully unaware of the virus....
Four Madhya Pradesh MLAs, three from Congress and an independent, have arrived in the city, said a source in the Congress on Thursday....
