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President accepts Ashok Lavasa's resignation as EC
President accepts Ashok Lavasa's resignation as EC

Wed Aug 19 2020

President Ram Nath Kovind has accepted the resignation of Ashok Lavasa as Election Commissioner, a notification by the Ministry of...

India's COVID-19 tally climbs to 27,67,273
India's COVID-19 tally climbs to 27,67,273

Wed Aug 19 2020

With 64,531 people testing positive in a day, India's COVID-19 tally climbed to 27,67,273 on Wednesday, while the recoveries crossed...

India's COVID-19 tally crosses 27-lakh mark
India's COVID-19 tally crosses 27-lakh mark

Tue Aug 18 2020

A spike of 55,079 cases took India's COVID-19 tally past 27 lakh on Tuesday just a day after it crossed...

Trump has elevated ties with India in ways not seen under any other US prez: White House
Trump has elevated ties with India in ways not seen under any other US prez: White House

Tue Aug 18 2020

US President Donald Trump has elevated America's ties with India and solidified the growing partnership between the two countries in...

Amit Shah Admitted To AIIMS For "Post Covid Care"
Amit Shah Admitted To AIIMS For "Post Covid Care"

Tue Aug 18 2020

Home Minister Amit Shah, who tested negative for COVID-19 last week, has been admitted to AIIMS in Delhi, the government...

UP Woman Found By Canal With Face, Throat Slashed. Locals Filmed Her
UP Woman Found By Canal With Face, Throat Slashed. Locals Filmed Her

Tue Aug 18 2020

A woman in her early 20s was found bleeding by a canal in Uttar Pradesh last evening, her face and...

Elon Musk Becomes World's Fourth-Richest, Added $57 Billion This Year
Elon Musk Becomes World's Fourth-Richest, Added $57 Billion This Year

Tue Aug 18 2020

Elon Musk's financial upswing shows no signs of slowing. The outspoken entrepreneur is now the world's fourth-richest person after Tesla...

WHO sounds virus alarm for Western Pacific
WHO sounds virus alarm for Western Pacific

Tue Aug 18 2020

The World Health Organisation said countries in the Western Pacific - a vast region comprising nearly 1.9 billion people -...

"Crucial Link": CBI To Write To Mumbai Police For Sushant Singh's Phone
"Crucial Link": CBI To Write To Mumbai Police For Sushant Singh's Phone

Mon Aug 17 2020

Investigating the Sushant Singh Rajput death case, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is set to write to the Mumbai...

SC rejects plea seeking postponement of JEE (Main) & NEET-UG exams
SC rejects plea seeking postponement of JEE (Main) & NEET-UG exams

Mon Aug 17 2020

The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a plea seeking postponement of JEE (Main) April 2020 and NEET-Undergraduate examinations, which are...

Some Delhi hospitals seeing COVID re-emergence in recovered patients
Some Delhi hospitals seeing COVID re-emergence in recovered patients

Mon Aug 17 2020

Some hospitals in the national capital have said they are are seeing recovered coronavirus patients returning to them with recurrence...

New Zealand delays election after virus outbreak in Auckland
New Zealand delays election after virus outbreak in Auckland

Mon Aug 17 2020

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Monday chose to delay New Zealand's national elections by four weeks as the country deals...

Japan's economy shrinks at record rate, slammed by pandemic
Japan's economy shrinks at record rate, slammed by pandemic

Mon Aug 17 2020

Japan's economy shrank at annual rate of 27.8% in April-June, the worst contraction on record, as the coronavirus pandemic slammed...

Facebook Executive In Delhi Alleges Threat To Life Amid Row Over Report
Facebook Executive In Delhi Alleges Threat To Life Amid Row Over Report

Mon Aug 17 2020

A top Facebook executive has alleged threat to her life in a police complaint filed in Delhi, which names five...

"Consider Me Retired": MS Dhoni Announces End of An Era
"Consider Me Retired": MS Dhoni Announces End of An Era

Sun Aug 16 2020

MS Dhoni announced his retirement from international cricket on Saturday, as he brought the curtain down on his over 15-year...

13-Year-Old Raped, Strangled In UP; Cops Deny Eyes Gouged, Tongue Cut
13-Year-Old Raped, Strangled In UP; Cops Deny Eyes Gouged, Tongue Cut

Sun Aug 16 2020

A 13-year-old girl was raped and killed in Uttar Pradesh's Lakhimpur Kheri district and her body found in a sugarcane...

If elected, will stand with India in confronting threats facing it: Biden
If elected, will stand with India in confronting threats facing it: Biden

Sun Aug 16 2020

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden asserted that if elected, his administration will stand with New Delhi in confronting the threats...

I stand before you as first candidate for US vice-president of South Asian descent: Kamala Harris
I stand before you as first candidate for US vice-president of South Asian descent: Kamala Harris

Sun Aug 16 2020

Democratic vice-presidential nominee Senator Kamala Harris, during her maiden address to the Indian-American community, reflected on her proud Indian heritage...

Devotees start thronging Vaishno Devi Shrine as authorities reopen religious places in J-K
Devotees start thronging Vaishno Devi Shrine as authorities reopen religious places in J-K

Sun Aug 16 2020

Khushvinder Singh is part of a 12-member group from Jammu who reached Katra before dawn to pay obeisance at the...

COVID-19: Over 63,000 fresh cases in India
COVID-19: Over 63,000 fresh cases in India

Sun Aug 16 2020

India's COVID-19 tally rose to 25,89,682 with a single-day spike of 63,490 infections, while the total number of recoveries rose...