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Police seize illegal fire-crackers from a shop in Gorakhpur, Thursday, Nov. 5, 2020. (PTI)

National Green Tribunal issues total ban on firecrackers from midnight...

The direction will apply to all cities and towns where the average of ambient air quality during November fell under the...

9 Nov 2020 12:44 PM IST

A man wearing mask walks past a mural, in New Delhi, Sunday, Nov 8, 2020. (PTI)

COVID-19: Delhi overtakes Maharashtra, Kerala as highest contributor...

The sudden spike in cases comes amid the festive season and rising pollution level

9 Nov 2020 11:28 AM IST

PM Narendra Modi with then Vice President Joe Biden

Modi, Kovind congratulate Biden, Kamala as India gets set to work with...

India had on Friday said the Comprehensive Global Strategic Partnership between both nations has â€œvery strong...

8 Nov 2020 11:29 PM IST

People stood in queues like this during the demonetisation episode in 2016.

Four years of Demonetisation: PM Modi hails move, Congress observes...

On November 8, 2016, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the decision to ban all Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 currency notes...

8 Nov 2020 9:11 PM IST

A peaceful protest at Chandor Goa against the building of double-tracking for coal transportation. (Twittter)

Primer | What-'s #SaveMollem protest and why are Goans protesting?

The public outrage is by far limited to the handful of people who are aware about the issue

8 Nov 2020 8:54 PM IST

A leopard caught in camera in Kunigal vicinity of Tumakuru.

Karnataka-'s Tumakuru records fifth leopard mauling incident in a year

Sources say senior officials are pressurised not to issue shoot-at-sight orders

8 Nov 2020 6:15 PM IST

Army vehicles move towards eastern Ladakh amid the prolonged India-China standoff in Leh. PTI photo

Indian, Chinese armies call 8th round of military talks candid and...

Nearly 50,000 Indian Army troops are currently deployed in a high state of combat readiness

8 Nov 2020 6:06 PM IST

Republic TV Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami, who was arrested for allegedly abetting the suicide of a 53-year-old interior designer in 2018, arrives in a police van to be produced in a court, at Alibaug in Raigad district, Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2020.

Arnab Goswami shifted to Taloja Jail after he-'s found using mobile...

Goswami and two others - Feroze Shaikh and Nitish Sarda - were arrested by Alibaug police on November 4

8 Nov 2020 5:48 PM IST

An Army vehicle arrives at the spot of encounter with militants at Pampore in Pulwama District of South Kashmir. (PTI)

Three militants, four securitymen killed during failed infiltration...

The militants made an abortive bid during the night to infiltrate into the Indian side of the LoC

8 Nov 2020 5:08 PM IST

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

AG refuses to review decision declining nod to initiate contempt...

The AP CM had written to the CJI alleging that the state High Court was being used to -'destabilise and topple-' the...

8 Nov 2020 3:34 PM IST

Villagers burst crackers to celebrate the victory of U.S. Vice President-elect Kamala Harris in Painganadu a neighboring village of Thulasendrapuram, the hometown of Harris maternal grandfather, at Thulasendrapuram in Chennai, Sunday, Nov. 8, 2020. (PTI)

Deepavali has come early for Kamala Harris-' native villages in Tamil...

The villages, which are native to her maternal grandparents, were keenly waiting the outcome

8 Nov 2020 3:08 PM IST

Karnataka makes U-turn on ban, allows green crackers for this Deepavali

Karnataka makes U-turn on ban, allows green crackers for this...

Several states, including Rajasthan, Odisha and Delhi,have already decided to ban firecrackers

8 Nov 2020 1:28 PM IST