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The phase-III human clinical trial of the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Oxford University and being manufactured by the Serum Institute of India (SII) will begin at the Sassoon General Hospital in Pune next week.

Saturday Dubai: Afghanistan's warring sides started negotiations for the first time, bringing together the Taliban and delegates appointed by the Afghan government Saturday for historic meetings aimed at ending decades of war. London: Biopharmaceutical...

Bodies of four members of a family were found hanging at their house in Rajasthan's Jamdoli area on Saturday, police said. Police suspect that it is a case of death by suicide.

The case was registered against 11 unidentified people and four named accused on Friday based on a complaint filed by Shamli district BJP president Satendra Tomar.

The district administration here has attached the properties of the zila panchayat chairman accused of abduction, police said on Saturday. The properties worth over Rs 16 crore include more than 10 plots, a house, brick kiln, egg farm, two-wheelers and...

The judgment comes as a major shot in the arm for the Birlas who have been engaged in an acrimonious 16-year court battle against the Lodhas over the estate of the late Priyamvada Devi Birla.

Odisha's COVID-19 tally rose to 1,71,341 on Friday as 4,180 more people tested positive for the infection, while 13 fresh fatalities took the state's coronavirus death toll to 682, a health official said. As many as 4,101 patients also recovered from the...

An FIR was lodged against Bhadohi MLA Vijay Mishra's daughter and six others for allegedly threatening her relative who has lodged a case against her father, accusing him of grabbing his property. "An FIR has been lodged against the MLA's daughter S...

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath announced to set up the country's "biggest" film city in the state's Gautam Buddh Nagar.

The Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation (MSRTC) will operate special buses for women government employees in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region from Monday, transport minister Anil Parab said. Parab, who is the chairman of MSRTC, tweeted on Friday...

Three persons, including a jeweller, were arrested in connection with a theft of valuables worth Rs 2.77 lakh from a house at Bhiwandi in Maharashtra's Thane district, a police official said on Friday. The incident of theft had taken in September last y...

High cost of procuring RT-PCR machines might prove to be a hurdle in implementing the Delhi High Court's suggestion to ramp up RT-PCR testing in the national capital amid a surge in the cases, officials said on Thursday. The Delhi High Court on Wednesda...

Schools and pre-university colleges in Karnataka will open from September 21 not to resume classes but to clear the doubts of students related to their studies, Karnataka Minister for Primary and Secondary Education S Suresh Kumar said on Friday....

A special court judge deferred hearing in a case pertaining to the alleged sexual exploitation of children in an ashram here after a victim broke down while being cross examined. The POCSO (Protection of Children from Sexual Offences) court will hear th...

After the recent discovery of a decomposed body lying neglected on a stretcher, another corpse, that of a five-month-old boy, was found lying in a cardboard box at the same government-run hospital here. The box containing the body of the infant -- who...

The BJP has hit out at the rival party for "hypocrisy", citing evidence of the 2009 and 2014 manifestos of the Congress that mentioned repeal of the Agricultural Produce Market Committee (APMC) Act.