Jaipur, The mid-day meal scheme, which was discontinued due to the corona pandemic in the state, resumed on Wednesday after a gap of two years.

On this day, cooked meals were distributed to about 3.22 lakh children in 10 districts of Rajasthan by Akshaya Patra Foundation. This food was prepared in the centralized

Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala on Wednesday saw its daily Covid tally drop to 1,421 cases and for the first time in several weeks, the test positivity rate dropped below 5 per cent to 4.78 per cent, said a statement from Health Minister Veena George.

With 2,130 recoveries reported, the total active cases stood at 11,8

Shimla,  The Himachal Pradesh government is committed to maintain the old glory of Shimla town, India's summer capital during the British Raj, and the Shimla Smart City Project is being executed by initiating various works, Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur said on Wednesday.

Laying the foundation stone

Chandigarh, About 85 crore people across the globe have some kidney disease. Based on rough estimates, about 10 crore people have chronic kidney disease (irreversible kidney failure) in India, says the local Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER).

On the eve of World Kidney Day, whose th

New Delhi, Union Minister and senior BJP leader Piyush Goyal on Wednesday criticised the Congress and other political parties for politicising the Ukraine-Russia war.

Addressing a press conference at party headquarters here along with Union Minister Anurag Thakur, Goyal said: "When Prime Minister Narendra Mod

Kolkata, West Bengal Assembly Speaker Biman Banerjee on Wednesday suspended two BJP MLAs - Sudip Mukherjee and Mihir Goswami - for the rest of the session for creating disturbances in the House during Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar's speech on the first day of the Budget Session on March 7.

The motion, brought by P

Hyderabad,  The Telangana High Court on Wednesday issued notice to the State Legislature Secretary on a petition by three Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLAs challenging their suspension from Assembly.

Raghunandan Rao, Eatala Rajender and T. Raja Singh have filed a petition challenging their suspension fro

Chandigarh,  All arrangements have been made for the counting of ballots at 66 locations for the 117-member Punjab assembly elections from 8 a.m. on Thursday, Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) S. Karuna Raju said on Wednesday.

He said three-tier security measures have been set up with deployment of 45 compan

Gurugram,  A local court on Wednesday sentenced a retired sub-inspector to five years imprisonment and three constables to three years in jail for framing and illegally confining a cyber cafe owner and two others in 2009.

Additional Sessions Judge Ashwani Kumar Mehta slapped a fine of Rs 40,000 each on t

New Delhi,  Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for evacuating her nine citizens from Ukraine's Sumy under 'Operation Ganga', government sources said here.

The nine Bangladeshi nationals, who were stuck in northeastern city Sumy, were evac