Mumbai, Mumbai' Municipal Commissioner I. S. Chahal was conferred the 'Lokmat Maharashtrian of the Year 2021 Award' for his meritorious efforts to control the spread of the Covid-19 scourge in the city.

Unon Finance Minister Nirmal Sitharaman presented the award to Chahal, who dedicate

Lucknow,  Maulana Khalid Rashid Farangi Mahali, well-known Sunni cleric and Imam of Aishbagh Idgah, has strongly condemned the Allahabad University vice chancellor Prof. Sangita Srivastava for claiming that her sleep was being disturbed by the 'azaan'.

In a video message, the cleric said that Sri

Chennai, DMK president M.K. Stalin has challenged both Chief Minister K. Palaniswami and the Deputy Chief Minister O.Panneerselvam to unravel the mystery behind the death of former Chief Minister Jayalalithaa. Stalin promised that once the DMK comes back to power, the government will unravel the mystery.

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Gandhinagar,  Gujarat on Tuesday saw 954 new Covid cases, taking its tally to 2,80,051, while the death toll climbed to 4,427, with two patients succumbing.

The state is again started seeing a rapid rise in the daily Covid tally, which has risen from an average of around 200 to near the thousand mark in

Bengaluru,   Four members of a chain-snatching gang, including a woman, were arrested in Bengaluru on Tuesday and gold chains valued around Rs 10 lakh recovered from them, police said.

The arrested were identified as Shivaraj, 23, Prakash, 27, Prasannaraj, 27, and Ratna, 32.

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Patna,  RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav has slammed Sugarcane Minister Pramod Kumar for his offensive gesture in the Bihar Vidhan Sabha on Tuesday.

The incident took place during a discussion on the budget for the home ministry. Tejashwi Yadav was presenting the data of incidents of crime between 1990 and 2005

Bengaluru,  Continuing an upward trend, new Covid cases crossed the 1,000 mark in a day across Karnataka, with Bengaluru accounting for 710 of them, the state health bulletin said on Tuesday.

"With 1,135 new cases registered on Monday, the state's Covid tally shot up to 9,62,339

New Delhi,  Union Minister of State for Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER), Jitendra Singh, said on Tuesday that there is an immediate need to avail the post-Covid opportunities in the tourism sector, particularly in the northeastern region, which can offer itself as an alternative to some of the European dest

Guwahati,  Ahead of the Assam Assembly elections, some former leaders and cadres of erstwhile terrorist outfit National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) have returned to the jungle and floated a group in a bid to resume the "armed movement", police, intelligence and other reports said.

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New Delhi,  A day after achieving the highest inoculation figure, the country's vaccination number fell by over 11 lakh with just over 19 lakh beneficiaries turning up for their immunisation against Covid-19 on Tuesday.

As per the provisional report by the Union Health Ministry, 19,11,913 people rece