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Indian shares closed at more than a sevenmonth high on Tuesday, helped by gains in Tata Motors and HDFC Ltd, with investors shifting focus to the outcome of the central bank's twoday policy meeting scheduled later in the week.

Rahul Gandhi said if these laws are implemented, farmers and labourers will become the "slaves" of a few corporates. He said in one or two years, their land would be taken over by these few "chosen" corporates.

Driven by environmental and health concerns, the government has also been implementing schemes to help lower-income families cope with the cost of switching from dirtier biomass to LPG.

Britain's Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel of Germany and U.S. scientist Andrea Ghez won the 2020 Nobel Prize for Physics for their discoveries about one of the most exotic phenomena in the universe, the black hole, the awardgiving body said on Tuesday.

Colombo (AP) Sri Lanka confirmed more than 300 garment factory workers have been infected with the coronavirus, after reporting its first community infection in two months. The health ministry said 321 cases have been identified in the cluster as of Tue...

Researchers in Australia have developed a unique technique to prevent glass facades on iconic buildings from shattering if targeted by terrorists in a bomb explosion. In the study, published in the journal Engineering Failure Analysis, the research team o...

The Maharashtra district administration asked the family members to take the infected person to a hospital. However, the man's wife ignored the advise and took him home, following which he succumbed to the deadly virus.

The family of the Hathras woman who died after being allegedly gang-raped has been receiving threats to life and is living under terror, an editorial in Sena mouthpiece Saamana said.

The girl was admitted to a local hospital, but she was referred to Delhi after her condition deteriorated where she died during treatment.

In today’s wrap, Supreme Court to consider plea seeking court-monitored probe in Hathras rape case today, Donal Trump returns to White House after 4 days in hospital despite having Covid-19, Quad foreign ministers to meet in Tokyo, NDA may announce list o...

The meeting of the Quad countries was proposed by India in August-end at the height of tension with China over the military standoff at the Line of Actual Control in Ladakh.

The ruling TRS in Telangana on Monday announced that Solipeta Sujatha, wife of late Solipeta Ramalinga Reddy, would be its candidate for the November 3 bypoll in Dubbak. Chief Minister and TRS president K Chandrasekhar Rao named Sujatha as the party...

Goa will file a contempt petition in the Supreme Court within two days against Karnataka for "diverting" Mahadayi river water despite the issue being sub judice, Chief Minister Pramod Sawant said on Monday. The two states are embroiled in a dispute over...

Goa's COVID-19 caseload went up by 391 and death toll by four on Monday, while 423 people were discharged during the day, an official said. The state now has 35,719 cases, including 460 deaths, and 30,456 people have recovered, leaving the state with 4,...

Four people accused of beating up a man at gunpoint, urinating on him and breaking his janeu over a land dispute were arrested in Sakarpar area under Sadar Kotwali police station limit in neighbouring Deoria district, police said on Monday. The inciden...

Ahead of Rahul Gandhi's tractor rally in Haryana against the new farm laws, the BJP-led government on Monday said the Congress leader can bring a few people in the state but it will not permit a big crowd from Punjab which can "disturb" the atmosphere. Ch...