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BMC workers sanitize the gate of Mumbai Mayor Kishori Pednekars bungalow after she was tested positive for COVID-19 and quarantined herself at home, in Mumbai, Friday. (PTI)

Maharashtra crosses 10 lakh-mark in total coronavirus cases

On Friday, the highest 2,367 cases were recorded in Pune city, followed by 2,191 cases in Mumbai and 1,555 in Pune...

12 Sept 2020 4:45 AM IST

A total of 8.58 lakh candidates had registered for the JEE-Mains exam

JEE-Mains result out; Telangana tops 100 percentile list with 8...

Only 74 per cent of the 8.58 lakh aspirants appeared for the exam amid COVID-19 lockdown

12 Sept 2020 4:06 AM IST

Indias defence minister Rajnath Singh attends the joint meeting of the heads of defence ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) members, in Moscow on Friday, Sept. 4, 2020. (PTI)

Rajnath takes stock of situation along LAC in meeting with service...

National security adviser Ajit Doval is also reported to have attended the high-level meet

11 Sept 2020 10:57 PM IST

Swami Agnivesh, firebrand social worker and Arya Samaj leader, passes...

Working out of Haryana, he later joined active politics and became the education minister in 1979.

11 Sept 2020 9:49 PM IST

The Bombay High Court has refused to take up urgent hearing on a petition filed by a group of lawyers seeking a stay on the swearing-in of Uddhav Thackeray as chief minister of Maharashtra on Thursday evening. (Photo: File)

Freedom of speech and expression provided under Article 19 not...

The court refused to grant interim protection from arrest to a woman booked for allegedly making offensive remarks on...

11 Sept 2020 9:12 PM IST

Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat (PTI file photo)

CDS Bipin Rawat appears before standing committee on defence

The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Defence is chaired by BJP leader Jual Oram

11 Sept 2020 5:25 PM IST

Aspirants enter an examination centre without following social distancing norms to appear for the Bihar Secondary Teachers Eligibility Test (BSTET) exams amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, in Patna. (PTI)

India may have over 7 million corona cases by October, become No. 1 in...

The researchers are now working on refining their model based on advanced machine learning techniques to make long-term...

11 Sept 2020 4:25 PM IST

The risk of death due to coronavirus infection is 17 times higher in doctors and 15 times more in healthcare workers, according to the Indian Medical Association. (AFP)

Death due to coronavirus higher among doctors, healthcare workers

The risk of death due to infection is 17 times more in doctors and 15 times more in healthcare workers, according to the...

11 Sept 2020 2:54 PM IST

Medical oxygen tanks for respiratory treatment are being prepared in Cinisello Balsamo, near Milan, Northern Italy. AP photo

No restriction be imposed on inter-state movement of medical oxygen:...

Health ministry has reiterated the critical importance of oxygen in hospitals for management of critical COVID-19...

11 Sept 2020 2:38 PM IST

Telangana Assembly Speaker Pocharam Srinivas gives sample for COVID-19 test ahead of the Monsoon Session, in Hyderabad. (PTI)

Government to set up COVID-19 isolation centes in rural Telangana:...

He wanted the health department to prepare itself for facing sudden spikes in COVID-19 cases.

11 Sept 2020 2:03 PM IST

Retired Air India staff await pensions even after 20 years

Retired Air India staff await pensions even after 20 years

The pensioners said that they should come under the coverage of the Provident Funds Act, 1952

11 Sept 2020 1:36 PM IST

$Minister S. Jaishankar and his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi in Moscow. (Image: Twitter\\@aadilbrar)$ Nation

India, China decide border tension not in best interest of both...

Jaishankar and his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi met in Moscow on the sidelines of a conference to try and end the...

11 Sept 2020 9:43 AM IST