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The Puducherry government on Thursday said it would implement the Centre's guidelines under Unlock-5 to reopen more activities in a calibrated manner in areas outside the containment zones including opening of schools, cinemas, theatres and multiplexe...

At the centre of Avni Doshi's debut novel Girl in White Cotton is a dysfunctional mother-daughter relationship, but it wasn't a theme the author had in mind before she set out to write. According to her, her narrator's voice guided her through nearly 30...

A state-level wrestler was shot dead and his friend seriously injured in Luhari village here, police said on Thursday. Akash (19) and Bharat (21) were shot at by four people on Wednesday night, Superintendent of Police Abhishek Singh said. While A...

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All efforts to rope in the CPI-ML in the RJD-led Grand Alliance in Bihar seem to have failed, with the left-wing party on Wednesday announcing that it would contest 30 of the 71 seats which would go to polls during the first phase of Assembly elections...

The penalty for not wearing a mask in public places will be hiked to Rs 1,000 in urban areas and Rs 500 in rural areas, subject to approval by Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa, Karnataka Medical Education Minister K Sudhakar said on Wednesday. At pres...

The Unlock 5 guidelines, which come into effect from October 1, has also laid down rules to regulate social and public gatherings.

Senior Congress leader Siddaramiah on Wednesday accused the Karnataka government of under reporting the COVID-19 deaths in the state and trying to "cover up" its "gross mismanagement and negligence", a charge rejected by the latter. As the Leader of t...

Special Judge SK Yadav said the demolition was the handy work of a few vandals, who did not even care that the idol of Ram Lala under the central dome could also be desecrated in the pandemonium.

A 17-year-old boy, who allegedly stole gold jewellery and cash from the house of a Navi Mumbai-based family that gave shelter to him for months during the lockdown, was detained on Wednesday from Jogeshwari in Mumbai, police said. The boy had stolen the...

Congress and Bhim Army workers held demonstrations in different parts of Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday over the gangrape of a 19-year-old Dalit woman a fortnight ago and demanded stern punishment for the culprits. A report from Hathras said tempers ran high...

These are the top stories we are covering this evening: LK Advani among 32 acquitted as court says Babri Masjid demolition wasn't pre-planned; Mathura court dismisses civil suit seeking removal of mosque from Krishna Janmabhoomi; 8 core industries' output...

A three-member committee has been constituted to monitor probe into the death of Mahoba trader Indrakant Tripathi, an official said on Wednesday. The panel has been constituted by K Satyanarain IG, Chirtrakoot Range. Earlier, a special investigati...

The Shiv Sena on Wednesday said the party-led coalition government in Maharashtra was firmly in the saddle and there was no scope for a November 2019-like "early morning experiment" in the next four years. The Sena, in an editorial in party mouthpiece '...

SSP Santosh Kumar Singh said a committee will probe the case and submit its report within a week, after which further action will be taken.

A middle-aged woman was found dead on the roadside at a village on Mumbai-Ahmedabad road in Maharashtra's Palghar district, police said on Wednesday. The unidentified woman was found strangled to death with a scarf in Kolhe village of Chinchoti, inspect...