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CM Jagan attends the review meeting on Covid-19 prevention, control and vaccination here on Wednesday. (Photo:twitter@AndhraPradeshCM)

Jagan wants best practices of country adopted for Covid care in AP

He asked officials to pay special attention towards maintenance of oxygen concentrators, D-type cylinders and oxygen...

29 July 2021 12:30 AM IST

A health worker collects a swab sample from a traveler to test for COVID-19 at a train station in Mumbai. (Photo: AP)_

ECIL develops new Covid monitoring system

Body temperature, oxygen saturation (SPO2), heartbeat rate, BP, ECG and respiration rate will help in assessing a...

29 July 2021 12:25 AM IST

Karnataka home minister Basavaraj Bommai (ANI pic)

Karnataka CM Basavaraj Bommai announces scholarship programme for...

CM Bommai said his government is committed to working for the farmers and poorer sections of society

28 July 2021 7:43 PM IST

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy. (PTI Photo)

Andhra Pradesh appointed member of National Task Force to promote...

Tourism and Culture Special Chief Secretary Rajat Bhargava will represent the state as a member of the Task Force

28 July 2021 4:58 PM IST

43 roads have been submerged and a bridge on the Vashisthi river was damaged at Chiplun due to heavy floods. (PTI Photo)

Maharashtra flood: 209 people dead, 8 missing due to heavy rains and...

On July 23, IAF carried out flood relief operations on the Ratnagiri districts of Maharastra

28 July 2021 3:28 PM IST

Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Somappa Bommai had served as Minister for Water resources and Cooperation in the previous BJP government. (Photo: PTI)

Basavaraj Bommai: Lingayat leader with origins in Janata Parivar

Born on January 28, 1960 in Hubballi, Basavaraj Bommai is a graduate in Mechanical Engineering

28 July 2021 2:50 PM IST

The assembly had witnessed unprecedented scenes on March 13, 2015 as LDF members, then in opposition, tried to prevent the then finance minister K M Mani, who was facing allegations in the bar bribery scam, from presenting the state budget. (PTI file image)

Assembly ruckus: SC rejects Kerala-'s appeal for withdrawing case...

Â“We miss the wood for the trees if we focus on rights without the corresponding duties cast upon elected public...

28 July 2021 1:21 PM IST

CPM leader and Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, whose photograph is on right, addresses an election campaign wearing a mask in Kochi, on March 27, 2021. The southern state goes to polls on April 6 to elect members to its state legislature. (AP/R S Iyer)

Kerala CM says extreme poverty to be eradicated in 5 years; hails SC...

No one turns to begging as they want it but poverty and hunger force them to do so, Pinarayi said in a Facebook post

28 July 2021 1:07 PM IST

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in a meeting with civil society leaders. (Photo: Twitter/@SecBlinken)

Blinken arrives in India; to discuss plethora of issues with Indian...

Blinken will hold extensive talks with Jaishankar and meet Ajit Doval

28 July 2021 12:40 PM IST

Army personnel during a rescue operation after flash floods due to a cloudburst at Hanzor in Kishtwar district. (Photo: PTI)

Cloudbursts, flash floods kill 17 people in Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal...

Amarnath shrine safe, no loss of life reported in cloudburst, assures Jammu & Kashmir govt

28 July 2021 12:33 PM IST

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

India adds 43,645 COVID-19 cases, 640 deaths

The national COVID-19 recovery rate has improved to 97.39 per cent

28 July 2021 10:29 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks in the Lok Sabha, on the first day of the Monsoon Session of Parliament, in New Delhi, Monday, July 19, 2021. (LSTV/PTI Photo)

Pegasus row: Opposition stalls Parliament for sixth day

The BJP leaders went into a huddle to rework their political strategy for the ongoing Monsoon Session

28 July 2021 10:23 AM IST