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Arjuna awardee and All India Football Federation's (AIFF) Player of the Year Gurpreet Singh Sandhu is set to attend the first-ever online goalkeeping introductory course, starting Friday. Sandhu will take part in the three-day course along with 29 othe...

A division bench of Chief Justice Indrajit Mahanty and Justice Prakash Gupta on Tuesday dismissed the application to defer the election from October 31 this year to March 31, 2021 and directed the government to conduct the elections by October 31.

Skopje (AP) A criminal court in North Macedonia has sentenced former conservative prime minister Nikola Gruevski to 1 1/2 years in prison, and handed suspended sentences to six other party members and supporters for orchestrating violence in 2013. Gruev...

Australian all-rounder Mitchell Marsh is unaware of the extent of his injury, which ruled him out of the Indian Premier League, as the reports of the scans performed on his right ankle went missing in the UAE. This was confirmed by the cricketer himsel...

Manila (AP) One southern Philippine province and its war-battered capital will be placed under a mild lockdown starting Thursday and the rest of the country will be under more relaxed restrictions to boost the battered economy of the country counting the...

Three people including the owner of a homestay, who allegedly consumed spurious liquor on September 26, are in a serious condition and undergoing treatment at various hospitals in Ernakulam district, police said on Tuesday. While one person, being t...

North Delhi Mayor Jai Prakash said he has "suspended" all present AAP councillors of the BJP-led NDMC House for three months for allegedly "misbehaving and creating ruckus" during its proceedings on Tuesday. He said the AAP councillors wanted to have a...

The probe agencies have sought early hearing of their leave to appeal', listed for October 12. Leave to appeal is a formal permission granted by a court to a party to challenge a decision in a higher court.

Mumbai Police have arrested a 22 -year-old drug peddler and seized mephedrone, a banned drug, worth Rs 14.40 lakh from his possession in suburban Goregaon, an official said on Tuesday. Acting on a specific information, the Crime Branch laid a trap in th...

His comment came a day after Maharashtra BJP president Chandrakant Patil said that there will be no option if no combination works out, while replying to a query on possibility of mid-term polls in the state.

Three labourers, including a woman, died in the collapse, while the fire brigade managed to pull out one labourer alive, an official said.

In today’s wrap: Hathras rape victim succumbs to horrific injuries, Amnesty shuts down India operations, BJP leader’s revelation on Sanjay Raut-Devendra Fadnavis meeting, brain-eating amoeba triggers panic in Texas, single-day Covid count drops and more.

The total cases in the country mounted to 61,45, 291 with 70,589 new infections, while the death toll reached 96,318 after 776 people succumbed to the disease in a span of 24 hours.

Indian shares rose for a third straight session on Tuesday, led by gains information technology sector and a surge in Tata Consultancy Services after a report that Walmart may buy a stake in Tata Group's new digital platform.

The West Bengal Health Department has decided to form Rapid Response Teams (RRTs) to treat critical COVID-19 patients, a senior official said on Monday. The RRTs will include one anesthesiologist and one medicine specialist to treat such patients, he sa...

Peasant body Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS) on Monday demanded that Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal, who holds the Home portfolio, be brought into the ambit of investigation in the Assam Police recruitment question paper leak scam. Addressin...