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Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K Palaniswami on Thursday requested his Karnataka counterpart B S Yediyurappa to take steps to fill vacancies of Tamil teachers in government and state-aided schools, citing an association's plea. Palaniswami said, over the yea...

Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Mandi have developed environmentally safe and cost-efficient catalysts that enable industrial chemical reactions. A catalyst is a substance that can be added to a reaction to increase the reactio...

A 35-year-old man in Punjab's Bathinda district allegedly killed his three children before committing suicide, police said on Thursday. Beant Singh, resident of village Hamirgarh, was upset over the death of his wife due to cancer two months back, Bath...

The UP police had previously said that call records reveal that the woman's brother had been in touch with Sandeep, and 104 calls were made between the brother and Sandeep from October last year to March.

New Zealand's first-class championships will mark the return of professional cricket in the country from October 19, albeit under new COVID-19 playing conditions. Other than six players currently in the UAE for the IPL, all of New Zealand Cricket's con...

Chandigarh on Wednesday reported two more fatalities due to COVID-19 taking the toll to 182, while 127 fresh cases pushed the infection count to 12,820 in the union territory. There are 1,448 active cases in the city as of now, according to a medical b...

Chennai Super Kings bowled out Kolkata Knight Riders for 167 after opener Rahul Tripathi's fine knock of 81 in the Indian Premier League here on Wednesday. No other KKR player crossed the 20-run mark. Tripathi's 51-ball knock had eight fours and thr...

The mortal remains of Congress MLA Kailash Chandra Trivedi, who died at a hospital in Gurgaon, were consigned to flames in his native village in Bhilwara district of the state on Wednesday. Trivedi, who was the legislator from the Sahara (Bhilwara) con...

Two journalists have been booked by Jaipur police for allegedly putting out fake news in August during the power tussle between Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and his former deputy Sachin Pilot, police said on Wednesday. The FIR, lodged with Vidhay...

The Uttar Pradesh government's affidavit in the Supreme Court over the Hathras case is a "white lie", the Congress alleged on Wednesday. Congress spokesperson Supriya Shrinate said the state government should not cover up the issue and present facts be...

The government between 2016 and 2019 gave pricing freedom for all fields except those given to state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) and Oil India Ltd (OIL) on a nomination basis.

A senior member of the Political Bureau of the ruling Communist Party of China (CPC) will pay an official visit to Sri Lanka, the Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson said on Wednesday. Yang Jiechi will travel to Sri Lanka, the United Arab Emirates, Alge...

The Stockholm Convention is a global treaty to protect human health and environment from POPs, which are identified chemical substances that persist in the environment.

Yerevan (AP) The fighting between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces over the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh continued Wednesday morning, with Armenian officials saying the territory's capital came under attack again and the European Union calling for...

Some unidentified assailants allegedly burnt a businessman to death after looting Rs 11 lakh cash from him in Haryana's Hisar district, police said on Wednesday. The incident took place in Hansi area on Tuesday night, they said.

Home Minister Anil Deshmukh said that the draft in this regard has been finalised and the government will incorporate more suggestions from women and experts on the issue.