Amaravati/New Delhi,   With two 'Disha' women protection bills waiting Presidential assent, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy on Friday requested Union Women and Child Development Minister Smriti Irani to expedite her ministry's response to the legislation.

In a letter

Lucknow,  With the situation of the Covid-19 pandemic under control in Uttar Pradesh, the Yogi Adityanath government on Friday said from July 5, cinema halls, multiplexes, gyms and sports stadiums will be allowed to operate in the state in strict compliance with Covid-19 protocols.

Chief Minister Yogi Ad

Chennai,  A timely signal from a distress alert transmitter (DAT) jointly developed by Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and Indian Coast Guard enabled the latter to save seven fishermen stranded in mid sea.

According to the Coast Guard, in a swift sea - air coordinated Search and Rescue Operatio

Kochi,  Lakshadweep film personality Ayesha Sulthana, who has been in news ever since her controversial remark on a local TV channel, on Friday suffered a setback when the Kerala High Court refused to stay a sedition case registered against her by the Kavaratti police.

Though she has been given anticipat

New Delhi,  The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHWF) partnered with Indic language social media platform, ShareChat and short video app Moj to organise a webinar to spread awareness about Covid appropriate behaviour and the world's largest vaccination drive.

The webinar aimed to make influen

Bhopal,  With the focus on spreading awareness to make people shed misconceptions about the vaccination drive, especially in the rural areas of Madhya Pradesh, the people have started realising that vaccination is the only potent weapon to stop the spread of the Covid-19 infection.


The evidence o

Kabul, After nearly two decades, the US military has left the Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan and has handed it over to Afghan National Defense and Security Forces, sources confirmed on Friday.

At its peak, the airfield, the largest in Afghanistan and located 69 km north of Kabul in the central province of Par

Ankara,  Turkish women held protests in cities across the country to denounce the country's withdrawal from an international treaty designated to combat gender violence.

Turkey on Thursday formally pulled out from the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and

Los Angeles, A massive wildfire currently raging in Northern California's Siskiyou County has spread to a total of 19,680 acres, with 25 per cent containment, according to the latest information from InciWeb, an interstate incident information system.

The Lava Fire, which eruoted on June 24 due to lightni

Manila,  Evacuations of families living close to an island volcano in the Philippines' Batangas province were underway on Friday, a day after phreatomagmatic eruptions sent "a dark grayish plume" above the sky.

"Evacuation activities in high-risk villages as well as in other nearby mun