New Delhi, The Supreme Court Monday issued notice to the Jammu and Kashmir administration on a plea filed by octogenarian Congress leader Saifuddin Soz's wife challenging his house arrest since August 5 last year. The court, however, refused to grant an early hearing, posting the matter in July.

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Covid-19 has thrown up new challenges in every walk of life and one is seeing various stakeholders reacting to the need of the hour in different manners. Even regulators have become bold and taken innovative steps which need to be appreciated. However, one is finding that taking advantage of the situation some promoters have begun to take regula

Dehradun, Gairsain town in Chamoli district of Uttarakhand on Monday was officially declared as the new summer capital of the hilly state. Uttarakhand Governor Baby Rani Maurya gave her nod to the state government's move declaring Gairsain or Bhararisen as the new summer capital of the state.

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Kolkata,   West Bengal Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Sabyasachi Dutta was heckled by Trinamool Congress (TMC) activists, here on Monday, when he had gone to see an injured party worker.

Dutta was manhandled in the Lake Town police station area and his vehicle was ransacked. Five BJP workers an

Mumbai, Pharma major Lupin on Monday said the US health regulator Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Orphan Drug Designation (ODD) to its drug mexiletine hydrochloride for the treatment of myotonic disorders.

The FDA grants ODD status to medicines intended for the treatment, diagnosis or prevention of

Ramallah, Palestine has slammed Israel for issuing deportation orders for Palestinian worshippers from the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem, the third-holiest site in Islam after Mecca and Medina in Saudi Arabia.

"Once again, Israel is bent on demonstrating its contempt for freedom of worship and religions, a

Brussels, More "Black Lives Matter" protests against racism and police brutality took place in major European cities such as Brussels, Copenhagen, London, Budapest, Madrid and Barcelona.

The protests on Sunday came a day after tens of thousands of people took to the streets of European cities like Berlin

Jakarta, AirAsia Indonesia will resume flights on June 19 as the country has gradually relaxed rules on the large-scale social restrictions imposed in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the airline said.

President Director of AirAsia Indonesia Veranita Yosephine Sinaga said that preparations for the resumptio

Taipei, Taiwan authorities have removed several major COVID-19 control measures, such as crowd control policies at mass events, as the pandemic has notably eased across the island.

The island has reported no locally transmitted COVID-19 cases for eight weeks, with the total number of COVID-19 patients remaining at

New York, The number of COVID-19 deaths in the US topped 110,000 on Sunday, reaching 110,028, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University.

A total of 1,927,428 cases have been reported in the country, according to the CSSE, Xinhua reported.

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