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Sitharaman strongly defended the proposed amendment and addressed individual concerns of the Rajya Sabha MPs, including those who were extremely critical of the government move.

The upcoming restaurant in South London named Adeena’s Kitchen will serve Hyderabadi food and each of Ashna’s paintings selected for the decor are five to six feet tall.

Singapore on Saturday reported 15 new COVID-19 cases, on Saturday, including five imported infections, taking the national tally to 57,558, the health ministry said, as the country rolled out weekend tests for community groups, including taxi drivers and...

A 16-year-old boy who went missing from Uttar Pradesh has been traced to Mumbai and is now lodged at a shelter home here, police said on Saturday. The boy, Dhruv, was found in Wadala area with the help of volunteers of an organisation working in child p...

The Rajya Sabha on Saturday mourned the death of its former member Naznin Faruque who passed away earlier this week at the age of 66. When the House met for the day, Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu mentioned the passing away of Faruque on September 16.

The coronavirus infection count in Pune district of Maharashtra reached 2,44,516 with the single-day spike of 4,093 cases, a health official said. These new cases were recorded on Friday.

The minister, however, said that Pakistan troops have been resorting to persistent ceasefire violations along the Line of Control.

An NIA spokesperson said that the agency carried out the simultaneous raids at several locations in Kerala's Ernakulam and West Bengal's Murshidabad after learning about an inter-state module of Al Qaeda operatives at various locations in India.

One person was injured at a hookah bar in the metropolis following an attack by three miscreants in the early hours of Friday, police said. The incident happened around 2 am when the three went to the hookah bar and started looking for the owner but cou...

The CBI on Friday conducted searches at eight locations, including the residences of ruling BJD MLA and former Odisha tourism minister Debi Prasad Mishra and others, in connection with its probe into the about Rs 1,000-crore ponzi scam allegedly involving...

DGFT is understood to have communicated to the Customs Department to give the go-ahead to cargo that have arrived at the port, but not to ones which are in transit, they said.

Participating in the debate on Supplementary Demands for Grants 2020-21, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, leader of the Congress in the Lok Sabha.

Sixty two more COVID-19-related fatalities pushed the toll to 2,708 in Punjab while 2,817 new cases took the infection tally to 92,833 on Friday. Twelve fatalities were reported from Ludhiana, 10 from Jalandhar, seven from Hoshiarpur, six from Mohali,...

A high-level expert group is looking into matters related to vaccine distribution and immunisation, he said.

: After nearly six months of closure due to the coronavirus-induced lockdown, bars would be re-opened in Andhra Pradesh from Saturday. The state government, however, decided to levy a 20 per cent 'COVID-19 fee' on the basic licence of bars and also...

Orange warning has also been issued for Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Maharashtra and Goa on Sunday. So far, the country has received 7 per cent more rainfall than normal.