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A Sept. 2017 file photo of a banner erected by the Indian Army near the Pangong Tso lake on the India-China Line of Actual Control border in Ladakh. India and China have been locked in a protracted standoff since mid-May. (AP)

India raises border deployment to ward off Pakistan

Intel received that -'Pakistan could foment trouble on the Line of Control to divert India-'s attention from China...

7 Sept 2020 9:21 AM IST

Kerala FM tests positive for COVID-19. (PTI Photo)

Kerala FM Thomas Isaac tests positive for coronavirus

He is the first minister in the cabinet to test positive for COVID-19, the offical said

7 Sept 2020 8:10 AM IST

Keshavananda Bharati of the Edneer mutt, who passed away on Sunday, September 6, 2020. His petition against Kerala land reform laws led to the Supreme Court laying down the principle that the basic structure of the Constitution cannot be altered. (Twitter)

Kesavananda Bharati, petitioner in landmark SC judgement, passes away

It was his case that the Supreme Court laid down the principle that the basic structure of the Constitution cannot be...

6 Sept 2020 5:02 PM IST

A medic collects a nasal sample from a resident via Rapid Antigen kit for COVID-19 test, at Borivali in Mumbai. PTI photo

India overtakes Brazil to become world-'s No.2 in COVID cases

The health ministry is only harping on the fact that the COVID recovery rate has climbed to 77.32pc in the country

6 Sept 2020 4:54 PM IST

Govt mulls installing EV charging kiosks at around 69,000 petrol pumps in country. (Photo- AutoCarrpo)

Centre mulls installing electric vehicle charging kiosks at 69,000...

Under the new guidelines of the oil ministry, new petrol pumps must have an option of one alternative fuel

6 Sept 2020 2:09 PM IST

MP Anubhav Mohanty with Wife Barsha Priyadarshini. (Photo-Twitter)

BJD MP Anubhav Mohanty slapped with domestic violence case by actress...

Levelling another serious allegation, she said Anubhav has extramarital affairs with multiple women from the Ollywood

6 Sept 2020 12:57 PM IST

An Army jawan was killed and two others were injured in latest incident of cross-boder firing in Jammu and Kashmirs northwestern Kupwara districts. (PTI Photo)

Army jawan killed, two others injured in Pak artillery fire along LoC

-"They were evacuated to the 92-Base Hospital in Srinagar-'s Badami Bagh Cantonment and their condition is stable,-" the...

6 Sept 2020 11:04 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)

India, China vow not to cede an inch of land

After the Moscow talks, Rajnath and Wei Fenghe give no sign that stances have shifted on either side

6 Sept 2020 10:46 AM IST

Bollywood actress Rhea Chakraborty and her brother Showik. NCB team reaches Rheas home to serve summons for joining probe. (PTI Photo)

SSR death probe: NCB summons Rhea Chakraborty to join investigation

The agency has said that it wants to question Rhea, 28, the main accused in the case, to take the probe forward

6 Sept 2020 9:30 AM IST

A picture of Babri Masjid taken prior to its destruction in December 1992, Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh. (Photo | Frederick M. Asher - Britannica)

New mosque in Ayodhya will be the same size as Babri Masjid, says...

Professor S M Akhtar of Jamia Millia Islamia will be the consultant architect of the project.

5 Sept 2020 9:16 PM IST

A Google map pinpointing Nacho, the area where the porters are said to have been detained by Chinas Peoples Liberation Army. (Photo: Google)

Five porters allegedly detained by China-'s PLA in Arunachal Pradesh

Villagers learn of the abductions from wireless messages of the Indian security agencies

5 Sept 2020 4:22 PM IST

Kannada actress Ragini Dwivedi at the Central Crime Branch office for question in connection with the sandalwood drug scandal, in Bengaluru, Friday, Sept. 4, 2020. (PTI)

Sandalwood drug scandal takes a political turn in Karnataka

Though Sambaragi named Zameer, it is not a secret in Karnataka that many politicians and their children attend high...

5 Sept 2020 4:09 PM IST