Bengaluru, Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) newly elected Rajya Sabha member from Karnataka Ashok Gasti succumbed to coronavirus at a private hospital in the city, an official said on Thursday night. He was 55.

"Gasti passed away at 10.31 p.m. He was critically ill with multi-organ failure on a life support

Guwahati, The villagers affected by the more than three-month-long raging fire and gas leakage from an oil well of the state-owned Oil India Limited (OIL) field at Baghjan in eastern Assam, on Thursday launched a road blockade demanding compensation, officials said.

According to the police, the affected villagers

New Delhi, The Indian Youth Congress (IYC) and the National Students Union of India (NSUI) on Thursday marked the 70th birthday of Prime Minister Narendra Modi as 'national unemployment day'.

IYC National President Srinivas B.V. said that the wrong policies of the central government have made the youth of

New Delhi,  A Delhi court on Thursday granted bail to Pinjra Tod activist Natasha Narwal in connection with the Delhi riots case, on the grounds that video shown by the prosecution does not show anything to suggest that she was in an unlawful assembly or incited violence.

Narwal was in judicial custody s

Aligarh (UP), For foreign students, taking admission in Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) is set to become costlier as the varsity has increased the fee for all its courses ranging from 6 to 54 per cent for the next academic session.

AMU has at least 800 international students on its rolls. "The hike is unreaso

New Delhi,  Riding on the surge in grocery demand in the Covid-19 times, online retail sales in Asia will grow from $1.5 trillion in 2019 to $2.5 trillion in 2024, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 11.3 per cent, a new Forrester report said on Friday.

Due to the pandemic, adoption of online grocery

Washington,  American airplane giant Boeing has named B. Marc Allen as its new chief strategy officer and senior vice president for strategy and corporate development.

On Thursday, the company also announced Christopher Raymond as the company's chief sustainability officer, a newly created position report

New Delhi, Petrol and diesel prices in the country have fallen sharply again even though global oil prices rebounded and rose over $43 a barrel, marking its fifth consecutive day of rise.

On Friday, the pump prices of petrol and diesel fell by 26 and 35 paisa per litre, respectively in the national capital making

Islamabad,  The total number of polio cases in Pakistan so far this year has reached 72, after nine fresh cases were detected in Punjab and Balochistan provinces, according to health authorities.

Of the new cases reported on Thursday, seven were of the circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type-2 (cVDPV2), D

Islamabad,  The Pakistan High Commission in London has received arrest warrants sent by the Imran Khan-led government for former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, it was reported on Friday.

The Mission was yet to make an official comment on the development but sources confirmed that it had received the paperwork r