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Chief Secretary Rajeeva Swarup has issued a detailed circular to all departments issuing instructions to officials to stand up to welcome the MPs and MLAs and do the same when they leave the premises.

The administration has, however, allowed the installation of the idols in public spaces during the Navratri celebration, but to prevent the spread of coronavirus infection, devotees will not be allowed to touch them.

Ashwani Kumar was found hanging at his home in Shimla on Wednesday. The 69-year-old left behind a suicide note saying he was “embarking on a new journey”, officials have said.

The court had then held that whether issuing TRPs should continue to be in private hands or should the government provide an agency to do it “is a matter of legislative and administrative policy”, and that these ratings do not obligate either the subscrib...

Four persons, including two women, were arrested here in Madhya Pradesh for allegedly kidnapping a four-month-old tribal boy and trying to sell him in Mumbai, police said on Friday. The accused included a couple and an aunt of the infant, who has been r...

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) left key interest rates unchanged on Friday as widely expected, while retaining an accomodative monetary policy stance to support the coronavirushit economy.

In a statement, Congress leader Sonia Gandhi said that Ram Vilas Paswan was a towering personality who stood with the cause of social justice and empowerment of the most marginalised.

Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Thursday described Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan as a towering personality who stood with the cause of social justice and empowerment of the most marginalised. Paswan died at a Delhi hospital on Thursday evening at th...

The health ministry released these guidelines on Thursday and stressed that the crowd density does not remain the same throughout or peak on weekends and holidays.

It said the NCDs will be listed on the Wholesale Debt Market segment of BSE Limited.

Addressing a press conference in the presence of Owaisi, Kushwaha said the new grouping is named 'Grand Democratic Secular Front' whose convener will be former union minister Devendra Prasad Yadav.

Several big names from sports and Bollywood on Thursday came out in support of government's 'Jan Andolan against COVID-19' by posting on their social media accounts. While BCCI President and former cricketer Sourav Ganguly urged people to take all pr...

Haryana's COVID-19 death toll rose to 1,548 with 20 more fatalities being reported on Thursday, while 1,284 fresh cases took the infection tally to 1,38,682, according to a health department bulletin. Of the new fatalities, four each were from Hisar an...

A group of activists also staged a protest at the Tribal Development Corporation Project office at Shahapur on Thursday and tried to feed biryani made from sub-standard rice to an official, it said.

More than three kg of smuggled gold worth Rs 1.64 crore have been seized including from some air passengers who arrived at Dubai at the airport by the customs department personnel in the last two days. The seizure also included 'unclaimed' gold bars...

Science and Technology Minister Harsh Vardhan on Thursday inaugurated a Clean Tech Demo Park at the Barapullah drain site, a Department of Biotechnology (DBT) initiative that will demonstrate innovative waste-to-value technologies. The park will be mana...