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As the Union ministry of health and family welfare issued fresh SOPs recently, the state health authorities communicated that the same be strictly followed at all workplaces. (Representational Photo: PTI)

Amid fear of rise in Covid cases, AP issues fresh SOP

The SOPs specify about maintenance of a 6 feet distance in public places, use of face masks, practice frequent...

25 Feb 2021 4:16 AM IST

Telangana High Court dismissed the pleas of Karvy Stock Broking Ltd. (PTI Photo)

Telangana HC restrains public at large to access University of...

While hearing the appeal of University, the Division Bench pulled up the GHMC on how it could it lay a coal tar road in...

25 Feb 2021 1:00 AM IST

Soon after President Ram Nath Kovind inaugurated the worlds largest cricket stadium in Ahmedabad, which will now be known as Narendra Modi stadium, social media was flooded with remarks, including by some leaders of the Congress and other opposition parties who alleged that the renaming exercise amounted to an insult to Sardar Patel. (AFP)

Narendra Modi stadium in Gujarat faces Opposition ire

J P Nadda said that naming the world's largest stadium after Prime Minister Modi is a 'humble attempt to honour his...

25 Feb 2021 12:16 AM IST

Paramedical staff screen Indians after they arrive at New Delhi airport from Chinas coronavirus-hit city of Wuhan on Sunday. India airlifted the second batch of 323 Indians on Sunday from Wuhan. PTI

'Delhi to ask for COVID-19 negative report from travellers from 5...

People travelling in flights, trains and buses from these states will have to produce negative test report before...

24 Feb 2021 12:02 PM IST

Chief minister Y. S Jagan Mohan Reddy is being felicitated by his ministerial colleagues before the cabinet meeting at State Secretariat (DC)

AP cabinet approves welfare scheme for EBC women

The state cabinet has also decided to allocate five per cent of land in private layouts for the poor

24 Feb 2021 8:41 AM IST

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan, center, stands with Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, right, after his arrival in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, February 23, 2021. Khan arrived in Sri Lanka for a two day official visit. (AP/Eranga Jayawardena)

India allows Pak Prime Minister overflight plan

The external affairs ministry in New Delhi did not issue any comment on the permission that was reportedly granted

24 Feb 2021 4:15 AM IST

The nearly one-and-a-half decades struggle of farmers under Kakinada Special Economic Zone (KSEZ) fructified with the state cabinet on Tuesday deciding to return around 2,180 acres of land in the zone to farmers who have refused to take any compensation. (Representational Image/DC)

AP returns 2,180 acres SEZ land to farmers

During his padayatra when he was the opposition leader, Jagan had visited the KSEZ area and promised to sort out the...

24 Feb 2021 12:07 AM IST

Leaders from various political parties take part in Paadayatra during a protest against the central governments move to privatize the Visakhapatnam Steel Plant near Asilmetta junction in Visakhapatnam on Saturday. (DC Image/P Narasimha Murthy)

AP Cabinet to pass resolution in assembly against RINL privatization

An MPs' team was also sent to New Delhi to meet Central leaders and apprise them of the situation

24 Feb 2021 12:00 AM IST

Disha Ravi, climate activist (Twitter@Tejinder42)

Toolkit case: Delhi court grants bail to Disha Ravi, terms evidence as...

'Freedom of speech and expression includes right to seek a global audience with no geographical barriers on...

23 Feb 2021 10:49 PM IST

The main opposition DMK on Tuesday boycotted the presentation of interim budget for 2021-22 in the Tamil Nadu assembly and walked out of the House. (Image credit : ANI Twitter/@

DMK boycotts budget presentation in TN assembly, stages walkout

As Panneerselvam began reading the budget, DMK members walked out after raising slogans for a while against the...

23 Feb 2021 12:53 PM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses webinar on effective implementation of Budget provisions in Health sector, in New Delhi, Tuesday, February 23, 2021. (PTI)

Government working on four fronts to keep India healthy: PM

The world has noted the strength shown by India's health sector during the COVID-19 pandemic, he said

23 Feb 2021 12:18 PM IST

Farmers gather at Red Fort during their tractor parade on Republic Day, in New Delhi, Tuesday, January 26, 2021. (PTI/Arun Sharma)

R-Day violence: Farmer leader among 2 arrested from Jammu by Delhi...

The duo was taken into custody by the Crime Branch of Delhi Police on Monday night and shifted to Delhi for questioning,...

23 Feb 2021 11:11 AM IST