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Hong Kong bars Air India flights till August-end after passengers test positive for COVID-19. (AFP Photo)

Air India Express flight makes emergency landing in Thiruvananthapuram

The flight was going to return from Damman in Saudi Arabia with Indian passengers as part of the -'Vande Bharat...

31 July 2021 1:42 PM IST

$Kerala govt launches \Let\s Go Digital\ project for higher education institutions$ Nation

Kerala govt launches -'Let-'s Go Digital-' project for higher...

The state government recently formed a special committee to implement the digital education in higher education...

31 July 2021 12:37 PM IST

Assam Chief Minister Dr. Himanta Biswa Sarma interacts with media after visiting the police personnel injured in a clash last night at Assam-Mizoram border, at Silchar Medical College & Hospital. (PTI Photo)

Border row: Assam CM, 4 senior cops, two admin officials booked by...

Besides, cases were also registered against 200 unidentified Assam Police personnel

31 July 2021 11:26 AM IST

The terrorists are believed to have planted the IED during the intervening night under the cover of darkness, the officials said. (Representational image: PTI)

IED defused in J-K-'s Rajouri; search operations on to nab terrorists

The IED was found planted by suspected terrorists under a culvert at Bathooni-Dilogra on Jammu-Rajouri national highway

31 July 2021 10:52 AM IST

A health worker in protective suit collects swab sample of a traveler to test for COVID-19 outside a train station in Bengaluru, India, June 16, 2021. (AP /Aijaz Rahi)

COVID-19: India records 41,649 fresh cases, 593 more fatalities

The number of active coronavirus cases in the country registered an increase for the fourth consecutive day

31 July 2021 10:30 AM IST

With regard to the first Delta plus variant case, the sample of the person was sent to CCMB on April 5 and the result was out on June 23. (PTI Photo)

Two Delta Plus Covid cases in TS, experts say following all norms

Experts state that Delta plus is not a concern in India as its spread has not been noted

31 July 2021 10:03 AM IST

Beneficiaries wait in queues to receive COVID-19 vaccine dose, at a government vaccination centre in Mirzapur. (Photo: PTI)

Chaos at Covid vaccination camp in Marredpally

In visuals captured by some residents, people, who have been deprived of vaccines for a month, rushed to the centre to...

31 July 2021 9:04 AM IST

Telangana High Court. (DC Photo)

Telangana High Court stays MP Malothu Kavithaâ€™s conviction

She had been convicted on July 24 for distributing money through her agent to voters to elect her in the Lok Sabha...

31 July 2021 2:36 AM IST

In view of the above we hold that there is no reason to interfere with the scheme propounded by CBSE and CICSE, the bench said, adding that the schemes take into account the concerns of all sets of students. (PTI Photo)

NCC becomes an optional subject in degree

As part of the NEP, UGC and the state government are making various changes in degree education

31 July 2021 2:01 AM IST

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Nidimamidi inscriptions highlights Vijayanayanagar empire

Three inscriptions, two in Telugu and one in Kannada, were unearthed at the 1,000-year-old Nidimamadi Samsthanam in...

31 July 2021 1:06 AM IST

Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy (Photo: Twitter @AndhraPradeshCM)

Property registration at ward level; Andhra Pradesh to be garbage free

Jagan Mohan Reddy held a review meeting on municipal and urban development in his camp office at Tadepalli on Friday

31 July 2021 12:56 AM IST

Former minister Enugula Peddi Reddy, who opposed joining of ousted minister Etala Rajendar into BJP, has announced an action plan to strengthen his own ground in Huzurabad constituency. (Photo: Facebook/

Etala Rajendar falls ill during padayatra, shifted to Hyderabad for...

Rajendar, who started the padayatra on July 19, has so far covered 222 km and visited 70 villages

31 July 2021 12:49 AM IST