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Health Minister K K Shailaja termed the incident as "very unfortunate" and directed the Principal Secretary (Health) to submit a report after a thorough enquiry. Stringent action would be taken if any lapses were found, she said in a statement.

The total coronavirus cases surged to 17,50,723, while the death toll due to the COVID-19 climbed to 37,364 with 853 people succumbing to the disease in a day, the data showed.

​When the construction is complete, it will mark the fulfilment of the second major agenda on the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party’s list of promises to its voters.

In the CCTV footage, a navy blue colour BMW car rams into the ice-cream stall and drags the people, who were standing near the stall on the roadside, for a sh.

According to Additional Director General of Police (Jails) Praveen Kumar Sinha, all the superintendents of jails have been directed that no physical meeting will be allowed on the occasion of Raksha Bandhan.

In just the last 13 days, the state registered a staggering 96,485 cases with 39,912 coming in only the past four days.

The tweaking of the Emergency Credit Line Guarantee Scheme (ECLGS)was done based on demand from trade bodies and in line with new MSME definition approved by the Union Cabinet in June.

Leela Dhar was admitted to the Rajiv Gandhi Super Speciality Hospital. He was shifted to ICU on July 19 and was given plasma therapy.

In the letter written in Hindi, the deputy chief minister said that the Delhi government will again send its proposal on reopening of hotels and weekly markets to the lieutenant governor on Tuesday.

Ten people died on Saturday when a crane collapsed, trapping them underneath, at a staterun shipyard in Visakhapatnam, a senior police officer said.

Though education is in the concurrent list, the contents of the new policy had not been discussed with the state governments before it was passed by the union cabinet on July 29, West Bengal Education Minister Partha Chatterjee said.

All teachers and employees of the schools will have to get themselves tested, and the Education and Health departments will coordinate the efforts for the tests that will be conducted from August 23-30, the minister said while addressing a press conferenc...

On July 25, Sushant Singh Rajput's father had lodged an FIR at Rajiv Nagar police station in Patna against Rhea Chakraborty and six others, accusing them of abetting the actor’s suicide.

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The visiting team on Friday evening submitted a written application seeking assistance from the Mumbai police in probing Sushant Singh Rajput death case.

Varhdan urged the WHO members to forge multi-sectoral collaboration to galvanise global response and cooperation to fight communicable and non-communicable diseases more effectively.