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Rahul Gandhi (AFP file photo)

Is this the India of our dreams?: Rahul tweets on Chitrakoot child...

-"Starving family in an unplanned lockdown...These girls have paid a terrible price to live,-" the former Congress chief...

9 July 2020 10:49 AM IST

Union minister Prakash Javadekar at the press briefing. (PTI)

Union Cabinet formally extends free ration under PMGKAY till November...

The minister said that the scheme will benefit more than 80 crore people in the country.

9 July 2020 1:48 AM IST

Karnataka chief minister BS Yediyurappa holds a review meeting in Bengaluru. (PTI photo)

Pressure builds on BSY to impose lockdown as Karnataka registers 2K...

Bengaluru again topped the list with 1148 cases. The containment zones in the city have doubled up in the recent days

9 July 2020 1:26 AM IST

File photo of former Indian naval officer Kulbhushan Jadhav. (PTI Photo)

India sees Pakistan farce in Kulbhushan Jadhav -'not filing plea-'

Pakistan said that India has been invited to file review and reconsideration petition on his behalf.

9 July 2020 1:02 AM IST

COVID-19 patients inside an isolation ward in Shehnai Banquet Hall near LNJP Hospital, in New Delhi. PTI photo

India-'s virus recovery rate rises, yet no respite from COVID-19 cases

With more COVID-19 patients recovering, the gap between the number of recovered cases and active cases has increased by...

9 July 2020 12:07 AM IST

File image of the Sheikh Waseem Bari.

BJP activist, father and brother killed by militants in Jammu and...

The attack took place on the fourth death anniversary of Hizb-ul-Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani.

9 July 2020 12:03 AM IST

High-level military talks between India and China on Monday that went on for almost 11 hours. (AFP Photo)

After Galwan Valley. Chinese troops complete disengagement in...

However, more India-China talks may be needed to resolve the face-off at Pangong Tso.

8 July 2020 11:26 PM IST

Many governments have already tried, mostly unsuccessfully, to roll out their own phone apps to fight the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. Many of those apps have encountered technical problems on Apple and Android phones and havent been widely adopted. They often use GPS to track peoples location, which Apple and Google are banning from their new tool because of privacy and accuracy concerns.

Indian Army tells jawans and officers to delete Facebook, bars 88...

The Army could take action against any personnel found to be using these banned apps from July 15.

8 July 2020 10:54 PM IST

Research scholars struggle to cope up with COVID-19 pandemic

The pandemic has created an unprecedented situation in the education sector especially among the research community

8 July 2020 7:48 PM IST

The shrine of Baba Amarnath. (ANI)

Staggered Amarnath Yatra this year; not more than 500 pilgrims to...

However, a final decision on the pilgrimage to the shrine in Himalayas will be taken later next week.

8 July 2020 6:55 PM IST

As per the revised allocation of subjects, Prakash will take care of General Admin GAD), Home, Revenue, Finance (excluding expenditure), Law, CMO establishment.

Andhra Pradesh CM Jagan strips two CMO aides of all powers

Praveen Prakash, principal secretary to the chief minister, is now head of CMO

8 July 2020 6:46 PM IST

Representational image.

Karnataka: Over 40,000 private school teachers lose job amid...

Among the worst hit are the pre-nursery and primary schools, where no new admission has taken place.

8 July 2020 6:37 PM IST