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Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

BJP-'s new target: Million â€˜happy birthdayâ€™ selfies on PM Modi-'s...

The million videos will have to showcase unity in diversity across India

12 Sept 2020 1:35 PM IST

Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao being welcomed on his arrival on the first day of the Monsoon Session of the State Assembly in Hyderabad.

Telangana halt on land transactions applies to Wakf, Endowment lands...

After completion of Comprehensive Survey, appropriate steps will be taken to protect the Wakf and Endowments lands

12 Sept 2020 1:04 PM IST

A woman wearing a face mask as a precaution against the coronavirus carries a child and waits for transportation at a bus station in Jammu on Friday, Sept. 11, 2020. Results of Indias first nationwide study of coronavirus infections show that for every confirmed case detected back in May, authorities were missing between 82 and 130 others. At the time, India had confirmed around 35,000 cases and over 1,000 deaths. The study released Thursday shows 6.4 million people were likely infected. (AP)

ICMR shocker: India missed 80 corona cases for every one detected

By that reckoning, 40 per cent of the population has been exposed to the virus

12 Sept 2020 11:28 AM IST

Retired Navy officer Madan Sharma. (ANI)

Mumbai Police arrest Sena worker for assaulting ex-Navyman over...

The incident took place around 11.30 am in Lokhandwala Complex area in Kandivali

12 Sept 2020 5:36 AM IST

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