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London, Sep 24 (AP) Britain has reported the highest number of coronavirus cases in a single day with 6,632 infections. Public Health England Medical Director Yvonne Doyle says the figure is a stark warning'' as infections rise across all age groups..

The AAP on Thursday claimed that the South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) has not paid Rs 2,137 crore to the city's north municipal corporation and sought the intervention of Delhi BJP chief Adesh Gupta in the matter. The Delhi BJP, in its response,...

The Gautam Buddh Nagar police on Thursday attached Rs 4 crore worth land of a key aide of gangster Sundar Bhati, taking to approximately Rs 40 crore the value of mafia properties it has attached so far, officials said. The crackdown on gangster Satbir B...

He said underground tunnels and hideouts made by militants were a cause of concern as they posed a threat to the civilian population and peace in Jammu and Kashmir.

The Southern Railway on Thursday announced operating two daily specials to Thiruvananthapuram and Mangaluru from here, days after the resumption of intra-state trains in Tamil Nadu. Following the Railway Board's approval, it announced running one superf...

During a meeting with Durga Puja committees, Banerjee announced a grant of Rs 50,000 each to nearly 30,000 puja committees across the state and 50 per cent concession on electricity bills for the committees.

Louisville (US) (AP) Police say they've made 127 arrests in Louisville, Kentucky, after protests over the grand jury's decision to not indict officers in the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor. A police statement on early Thursday says some were arrested...

New York (AP) An enigmatic painting from Renaissance master Sandro Botticelli will go on auction next year and art watchers will be seeing if it fetches more than its eye-watering USD 80 million estimate, despite the pandemic. Botticelli's 15th-century...

The Kerala police on Thursday filed a case against Congress' state students wing chief for allegedly furnishing fake contact information to health workers while undergoing a Covid-19 test recently. Kerala Students Union chief K M Abhijith was booked on...

The first Bhutanese to be at the helm of affairs of an I-League club, FC Sudeva head coach Chencho Dorji says it was his idea to have an all-Indian team in the upcoming season. Dorji was on Wednesday announced as the head of Delhi-based Sudeva FC which...

Brisbane (AP) The four-nation Rugby Championship will be played as six doubleheader matches over a six-week period starting in Brisbane on Nov. 7. Sanzaar, the governing body for the tournament which includes Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Ar...

Aligarh Muslim University students have demanded a reinvestigation into the December 15 campus violence during an anti-CAA protest and a review of the cases filed against some of them in a week after that, saying they were booked on "flippant grounds"....

Air quality in Delhi's 13 pollution hotspots improved significantly due to restrictions on industrial operations and commercial and vehicular activity during the lockdown, according to the Central Pollution Control Board. The Delhi government has ident...

As COVID-19 rages, US-based economist and epidemiologist Ramanan Laxminarayan says there is a hidden epidemic happening even as the pandemic spreads.

A 34-year-old man was allegedly shot dead by his stepbrother over property dispute in Kasarvadavali area of Maharashtra's Thane city, police said on Thursday. The police are now hunting for the body of the victim Rakesh Manick Patil, which was dumped in...

Punjab farmers, along with farmers from Haryana and several opposition parties have been protesting against these farm reforms ever since they were slated to be tabled in the Lok Sabha.