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According to an order issued by Chief Justice Govind Mathur, both benches of the high court will remain closed on August 12, 13 and 14 and during these three days, only urgent matters will be taken up.

External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Anurag Srivastava on Sunday said the minister's remarks on Saturday at an event 'referred to our shared Buddhist heritage.'

Of the 743 infected, three employees succumbed to the dreaded contagion and about 402 personnel have recovered so far from infection while 338 people were undergoing treatment at different COVID care facilities.

A bench headed by NGT Chairperson, Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel, also noted the submission that concretisation around trees is taking place in violation of its orders.

The 22-year-old jawan, Shubham Singh Parmar, was on sentry duty at Air Force Station, Udhampur when he shot himself dead on Saturday, a police official said.

There are 6,28,747 active cases of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), comprising 29.20 per cent of the total caseload in the country. The total coronavirus cases have mounted to 21,53,010.

According to a senior officer, Umakant, alias Guddan, was accompanied by his wife, daughter and other family members at the time of his surrender.

The Police, Fire service personnel and the locals have teamed with two teams of NDRF and are searching for missing persons feared trapped in the debris that has been spread over in the area.

It was a black Friday for all the 184 passengers who after a long wait managed to get tickets in the repatriation flight from Dubai as part of the Centre's Vande Bharat Mission to evacuate Indians stranded abroad.

His mother, Neela Sathe, who lives with her husband Vasant Sathe, a retired colonel, said that after the coronavirus outbreak, he had told her not to step out of the house.

Sanjiv Chaturvedi had approached the CAT seeking direction for Secretary, Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MoEFCC) to pass appropriate orders on a NOC given by Uttarakhand state government in December 2019, allowing him to join the Lok...

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Saturday praised the 'fast-response' of the local people and officials in being the first to reach the aircraft crash site.

A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice A K Goel agreed with the finding of the committee which has made three categories of persons entitled to interim compensation.

According to sources in the top court, a serious view has been taken of the "wrongful" listing of the matter on August 10 before a bench of Justices DY Chandrachud and KM Joseph.

The death toll from an Air India Express passenger aircraft accident has risen to 18, while 16 people have been severely injured, a senior government official said on Saturday.

So far, the state authorities have connected Ayodhya to Purvanchal Expressway for direct access to Lucknow and Varanasi airports. And a 192-km highway is also being constructed, connecting holy cities- Kashi and Ayodhya.