New Delhi, The Supreme Court on Thursday disallowed the annual Rath Yatra in Odisha's Puri, slated to start from the Jagannath Temple on June 23. Now there will be no chariot pulling of Lord Jagannath, Balabhadra and Subhadra and all other activities associated with the annual programme also stand cancelled.

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Bengaluru, Eight candidates, including an Independent, filed nominations for the June 29 biennial elections to 7 Karnataka Legislative Council seats to fill vacancies caused by expiry of their term, an official said on Thursday.

"Of the 8 candidates, 4 from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), 2 from the

Chennai, People in Chennai and three neighbouring districts on Thursday geared up for 12-day intensified lockdown, beginning from Friday, to prevent the spread of coronavirus.

Chief Minister K.Palaniswami on June 15 announced lockdown in Chennai, Kancheepuram, Tiruvallur and Chengalpattu districts between June 19-

Hyderabad, June 18 (IANS) The Telangana High Court on Thursday directed the state government to provide PPE kits to doctors and other healthcare professionals attending to Covid-19 patients.

A division bench gave several directions to the government while hearing Public Interest Litigations (PILs) about the C

New Delhi, Three days after Home Minister Amit Shah visited the Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan (LNJP) hospital, his junior ministers G. Kishan Reddy and Nityanand Rai on Thursday inspected the functioning of various Rapid Antigen Detection Test Centres set up in the national capital.

In the surprise visits, Reddy v

Vijayawada, Telugu Desam Party (TDP) President N. Chandrababu Naidu on Thursday urged Andhra Pradesh Governor Biswa Bhusan Harichandan to stop what he called destruction of democratic institutions by the YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) government and to restore the rule of law in the state.

The Leader of Opposition cal

Noida,  Leading financial services platform Paytm has set up its largest campus yet in Noida and plans to gradually shift all operations based in Delhi-NCR to the new sprawling campus, including the headquarters of One97 Communications, by the end of this year.

The company has taken up over 5.5 lakh square fe

New Delhi, In a big reform initiative aimed at attracting global investment in the mining sector, the government on Thursday started auction of coal mines for commercial extraction by the private sector.

In all 41 mines with total geological coal reserve of 17 billion tonne is on offer under the first phase of com

New Delhi, The industry body, Cotton Association of India (CAI) has retained its crop estimate for 2019-20 at 330 lakh bales of 170 kg each, the same level as estimated by it in the previous month. CAI released its May estimate of the cotton crop for the season 2019-20 (October-September) on Thursday.

The cotton c

New Delhi, In its bid to facilitate investors with ready to use on-tap projects, the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) has set up a Project Development Cell (PDC) headed by a joint secretary level officer.

The PDC will develop investible projects in coordination between the central and state governments.