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Mercedes' Formula One championship leader Lewis Hamilton took pole position for the first Tuscan Grand Prix at Italy's Mugello circuit on Saturday with team mate Valtteri Bottas joining him on the front row.

A study by the forensic department of Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences in Sewagram has resulted in a reduction by half of the number of post mortems conducted in medico-legal cases in Maharashtra's Wardha district. The facility's forensic me...

The impasse over arriving at an agreement to resume interstate bus services between Andhra Pradesh and Telangana post-COVID-19 lockdown continues, with the Telangana government allegedly cancelling a meeting of the Transport ministers of the two states on...

The SAD on Saturday appealed to the BJP-led Centre not to present the three farm ordinances for approval in Parliament until all reservations expressed by farmers are duly addressed. A decision to this effect was taken at a meeting of the SAD...

The ordinances seek to provide barrier-free trade for farmers' produce outside notified farm mandis, and empower farmers to enter into farming agreements with private players prior to the production for sale of agri-produce.

AAP's national convenor and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday asked party volunteers in Mumbai to reach out to people living in every corner of the city to check their oxygen levels and help in their fight against COVID-19. In a video co...

A 68-year-old retired school teacher was stabbed to death outside a temple in his village in Sitapur district, triggering sharp criticism from the Samajwadi Party over the law and order in Uttar Pradesh. The incident took place on Friday evenin...

Pilot said it has been brought to his notice that the people in the MBC (More Backward Classes) category are not being given the benefits of the five-per cent reservation rule in government recruitments.

Singh, who has been admitted at AIIMS, Delhi for about a week after developing post-COVID complications, resigned from the primary membership of the party on Thursday and followed it up with an open letter, a day later, addressed to Prasad's arch rival an...

: Citing the fall in revenues due to the COVID-19 induced lockdown, the Andhra Pradesh government on Saturday enhanced the tax rate on natural gas by 10 per cent, estimating that it could fetch an additional revenue of about Rs 300 crore per annum. Less...

Denying any political interference, Joint commissioner of police (law and order) Vishwas Nangre Patil said the bail was granted to the accused in view of the COVID-19 situation.

After Delhi Police held a few press conferences following the Batla House encounter, it was instructed by the home ministry not to brief the media further on the progress of probe, says Karnal Singh, who spearheaded the investigation into the 2008 Delhi s...

BJP chief JP Nadda is understood to have assured help in ironing out the differences that have of late cropped up between the JD(U) and the LJP on account of the belligerent stance adopted by the latter’s young president Chirag Paswan.

: A 30-year-old engineer, who had returned from Kuwait and was in quarantine here, was found dead with his throat slit, police said on Saturday. T V Sharath was staying in an outhouse adjacent to his residence.

Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Saturday rolled out a smart ration card scheme for providing subsidised foodgrains to 1.41 crore beneficiaries in the state. He also announced a separate state-funded scheme to provide subsidised ratio...

The youths, who went hunting on September 2, were allegedly whisked away by the Chinese troops from Sera-7, an Army patrol zone located around 12 km further north of Nachoin Upper Subansiri district.