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As Asia says goodbye to 2020 a tumultuous year that saw the planet roiled by a deadly pandemic celebrations will be smaller, shorter and more muted amid fears of coronavirus flareups.

New Zealand captain Kane Williamson enters the New Year as the topranked test batsman after leapfrogging Australia's Steve Smith and India skipper Virat Kohli in the latest official rankings issued on Thursday.

The death toll increased to 1,48,738 with 299 new fatalities, the data updated at 8 am showed The number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 98,60,280 pushing the national recovery rate to 96.04 per cent, while the COVID-19 case fata...

Many untraced cases have been found where wrong or incomplete addresses and details like mobile phone numbers have been furnished, officials said.

Even though the army and police’s account of what happened at Hokersar is far from implausible, little evidence has so far been released to support it — fuelling fears they might have been victims of a similar extra-judicial execution.

Without giving more details, the ministry said COVID-19 has led to increased trade and cooperation between India and the US.

The Safdarjung Observatory, which provides representative data for the city, recorded a minimum of 3.5 degrees Celsius as against 3.6 degrees Celsius on Tuesday.

New York, Dec 29 (AP) Heralded as the safest big city in America in recent years, New York City is closing out its bloodiest year in nearly a decade, grappling with a surge in homicides and a pandemic authorities say has helped fuel violence. The city...

Suvendu Adhikari said BJP will hold public meeting at Nandigram on January 8 which will see the gathering of one lakh people and dared Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee to hold a rally as big as it.

Yadav attacked the government in tweets and at a press conference after Urdu poet Munnawar Rana's daughter Somaiyya Rana, Bahujan Samaj Party's Masood Alam and former MLA Ramesh Gautam joined his party.

Over 201 acres of land has been allotted for the institute, which will be built at an estimated cost of Rs 1,195 crore and is expected to be completed by mid2022, the Prime Minister's Office said.

PM Modi said that on coming to power, he personally monitored the project and held a dialogue with the stakeholders and got new technology as a result of which about 1100 km work will be completed in next few months.

The petition, which has alleged that directions passed by various high courts regarding filling up of vacancies in district and state consumer commissions have been "ignored" by the authorities concerned, said there is a lack of proper infrastructure to r...

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has intensified restrictions in the country and reimposed a ban on the sale of liquor amid a rise in COVID-19 cases in the past one week. Not wearing masks in public will now be a criminal offence with the risk of...

The crime was committed in Rohtas' Dehri-on-Sone locality on December 23 but was reported to police only on Friday, Dehri SDPO Sanjay Kumar said.

India should maintain its mediumterm inflation target at 4% when it carries out a fiveyear review of the goal in March, two senior central bank officials recommended in a paper released on the banks's website on Monday.