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Voters stand in a line to cast their vote outside a polling station during Tamil Nadu state legislative election in Chennai on April 6, 2021. (Arun SANKAR / AFP)

Polling peaceful in all five states, high voter turnout seals parties'...

Voting was held in 1.5 lakh polling stations across 475 Assembly seats in the four states and the Union territory of...

7 April 2021 7:41 AM IST

A health worker collects sample of a woman for COVID testing at a medical camp in Chennai. PTI photo

AP nears 2,000 mark of single-day spike in Corona infections

With regard to deaths, 7 succumbed to the virus, 2 each in Prakasam and Visakhapatnam and 1 each at Chittoor, Guntur,...

7 April 2021 2:10 AM IST

While the forest department officials denied they beat anyone, the tribals, who alleged the opposite, gathered in numbers the next morning, and beat up six of the department staff and damaged a jeep belonging to the department. Representational image

Telangana Forest staff feel undermined by their own government

Field level staff complain that every time a political leader 'instructs' department not to touch encroachers, it makes...

7 April 2021 2:02 AM IST

Telangana High Court. (DC Photo)

Telangana High Court pulls up state over spurt in Covid-19 cases

The court chided the state over the nod it gave to opening up commercial activities, malls, cinemas without imposing...

7 April 2021 1:12 AM IST

According to reports reaching here, 26 students tested positive in a social welfare residential school in Jagtial district, as also 15 children from a Kasturba Gandhi Girls School in Rajanna-Sircilla district. (Photo: AP)

Covid-19 spreading among medical college students in Telangana

Tests are being carried out and students have been asked to avoid going to or remaining in common areas

7 April 2021 12:11 AM IST

World Health Organization (WHO) sign in Geneva next to their headquarters. (AFP)

Fake News: WHO denies issuing warning of 50,000 COVID-19 deaths in...

India has so far reported over 1,26,86,049 COVID-19 cases. The death toll in the country has gone up to 1,65,547

6 April 2021 1:35 PM IST

A health worker collects samples of a motorist for Covid-19 tests, as coronavirus cases spike across the country, in New Delhi on April 5, 2021. (PTI/Kamal Kishore)

Night curfew imposed in Delhi from 10 pm to 5 am till April 30

The case positivity rate in Delhi has also risen to 5.54 per cent amid a massive surge in cases in the last few weeks

6 April 2021 12:45 PM IST

Justice Ramana will be the second Telugu speaking Chief Justice of India. (Photo: PTI)

Justice Ramana appointed as Chief Justice of India

Current CJI SA Bobde is due to retire on April 23

6 April 2021 11:51 AM IST

A paramilitary personnel stands guard as people wait to cast their votes at a polling station during the state legislative elections, at South Twenty Four Parganas district, about 70 km from Kolkata on April 6, 2021. (Dibyangshu Sarkar / AFP)

EVMs, VVPATs found at TMC leader's home, poll official suspended

A huge team of central forces had to be deployed in the area as the locals protested, alleging malpractices

6 April 2021 10:54 AM IST

Elderly people wait for their turn to receive the dose of Covishield vaccine against the Covid-19 coronavirus at a government high school in Hyderabad on April 5, 2021. (Noah SEELAM / AFP)

Telangana reports 1498 COVID-19 cases, 6 deaths

The case fatality rate in the state was 0.54 per cent, while it was 1.3 per cent at the national level

6 April 2021 10:47 AM IST

AP Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy. (DC Image:Narayana Rao)

People pay rich tributes to Andhra Pradesh jawans martyred in Maoist...

Hundreds of people came out in rallies and raised slogans praising his supreme sacrifice

6 April 2021 8:44 AM IST

The back-to-back meetings, after the one chaired by the PM on Sunday, is a part of the Central governments efforts to contain the spread of the virus, which has once again turned into a full-blown crisis. (Photo: PTI)

Amid Covid spurt, PM to talk to CMs on Thursday

Harsh Vardhan has called a meeting with 11 states and UTs of grave concern on Tuesday to take stock of the worsening...

6 April 2021 4:03 AM IST