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Venugopal, a leading lawyer of the country, succeeded Mukul Rohatgi as the AG on June 30, 2017.

A senior official said, the COVID facility has been started with 45 beds, and five ICU beds, besides 84 isolation beds.

On June 2, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh held a telephonic conversation with his French counterpart Florence Parly during which she conveyed that the Rafale jets will be delivered to India as scheduled notwithstanding the coronavirus pandemic in France.

Jaipur Foot USA Chairman Prem Bhandari, who has helped several Indians stranded in the US to return to their homeland amid the COVID-19 pandemic, has written a letter to Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla.

The Congress leader said a man undergoing treatment at a state-run hospital sent a video to his family in which he claimed that oxygen was not being provided to him and that he was dying.

The minister also accused Congress president Sonia Gandhi and former party chief Rahul Gandhi of asking questions, allegedly designed to lower the morale of the armed forces.

There is a 30-year-old constable who now sanitises his hands at a gap of every two or three minutes and remains isolated from family members even at home. He also has sleep disorders now that developed around March 15, when the pandemic threat had started...

The bench of Justices AM Khanwilkar, Dinesh Maheshwari and Sanjiv Khanna, in an urgent hearing conducted on Sunday evening through video conferencing, dismissed the plea.

The situation is taking a toll on their mental health with some suicides too reported as they miss out on key life events, like the birth of a child or the last rites of a loved one, while also grappling with limited internet and cellphone connectivity on...

In the national capital, petrol price was unchanged at Rs 80.38 per litre on Sunday. Cost of diesel also was the same as Saturday at Rs 80.40 a litre.

In his monthly radio address Mann ki Baat, PM Modi said India knew how to maintain friendships but could also look her enemy in the eye and retaliate if the need arose.

The UP Agriculture Department said that the authorities of the neighbouring districts like Hamirpur, Banda, Fatehpur, Kaushambhi, Mirzapur, Sultanpur, Mau and Ballia have been asked to remain alert.

The entire staff of the PS has been quarantined to check the spread of the virus, an official said, adding the areas between Lutuksa and Dat Sungra in Bhawanagar have been identified as a containment zone.

Among the other decisions were a five-day working week for government offices, which will remain closed on all Saturdays with effect from July 10. The existing timing of night curfew, from 9 pm to 5 am, has also been altered to 8 pm to 5 am with effect fr...

After June 22, it was the first time that the number of cases per day fell below the 3,000-mark in the city.

The basic idea of detecting the symptomatic cases through fever camps is to ensure a healthy population by early detection and treatment for COVID-19, he said.