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The medical equipment was handed over to the Indian Red Cross Society by French Ambassador to India Emmanuel Lenain at the Palam Air Force Station after the assistance material was flown here on board a French Air Force aircraft.

She had applied for bail after a Byculla women's prison inmate tested positive for coronavirus earlier this year.

The Met department has warned of heavy to very heavy rain till Friday morning in the north Bengal districts of Kalimpong, Alipurduar, Darjeeling, Coochbehar and Jalpaiguri.

According to the UNICEF, in India, there are still around 20 million children under five years of age who are suffering from wasting.

The Supreme Court Tuesday refused to interfere with the transfer orders of CBI DSP AK Bassi, who was investigating officer in the corruption case against the .

After the baby girl's birth, swabs of the child's nose, the umbilical cord and placenta were tested and the reports came out positive, the doctor said.

A week before the jets’ scheduled arrival came news that they will be equipped with Sagem ‘Hammer’ standoff strike weapons in view of the border crisis and the fact that the Rafales might have to prepare for operations sooner than normal.

Archana Soreng joins six other young climate leaders, aged between 18 and 28 years, who have been named by Guterres to his new Youth Advisory Group on Climate Change.

Both the state and the central governments are elected bodies and they should work together, she said during an online programme where the prime minister inaugurated new COVID-19 testing facilities.

The coronavirus pandemic and the lockdown triggered by it have hit both small scale and individual businesses, with street vendors being one of the most affected groups.

The bench restrained itself from passing a mandamus against the Centre to provide the reservation as it relates to a policy decision.

About 6,000 health workers and high-risk individuals including those in close contact of COVID-19 patients have been enrolled in a clinical trial to determine if the recombinant Bacillus Calmette-Guerian (rBCG) can boost immunity to fight against the viru...

Solicitor General Tushar Mehta said the competent authority has decided to not extend Qayoom's current detention order beyond August 7. He was detained following the abrogation of Article 370 last August.

At the NSE, it declined 3.49 per cent to close at Rs 1,079.95. In traded volume terms, 7.21 lakh shares were traded at the BSE and 1.89 crore shares on the NSE during the day.

The coronavirus crisis has exposed the weakness in global supply chains and posed threat to the health security of the country, DV Sadananda Gowda said.

The order, appointing her as a junior assistant in the revenue department on compassionate grounds was given by Palaniswami to Percys, the eldest daughter of Jayaraj at the Secretariat, an official release said.