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On September 14, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee announced the setting up of the 'Dalit Sahitya Academy' and appointed Manoranjan Byapari as its chairman.

The eight districts which will get the power supply are Bulandshahr, Firozabad, Amroha, Rampur, Unnao, Kanpur, Deoria and Jaunpur.

Leaders of various political parties, including the Congress, the Left parties, NCP, DMK, SP, Trinamool Congress and the RJD, have in a memorandum to the President sought his intervention in the matter and asked him not to sign the bills. Former prime min...

Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel on Monday launched flight services from Maa Danteshwari Airport in Jagdalpur under the Centre's UDAN scheme. Alliance Air will operate services to Raipur, some 300 kilometers away, and Hyderabad from the airpor...

Citing an order of the Delhi Disaster Management Authority (DDMA), police on Monday said people cannot be allowed to hold demonstrations in the city till September 30 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Amid protests against farm bills in the city, the Delhi...

Gravedigger Junaedi Bin Hakim toils until nearly midnight almost every day in a Jakarta cemetery, preparing plots for fellow Indonesians amid a renewed spike in coronavirus burials.

: Cases have been registered against 3,000 people by the police and at least 100 arrested so far in connection with the violent protests by outfits of opposition parties here demanding the resignation of Kerala Minister K T Jaleel following his questionin...

The remains were found during a joint search operation by the police and the SDRF personnel in the area on Sunday, Rudraprayag Superintendent of Police Navneet Singh Bhullar said.

Madhya Pradesh Assembly members paid tributes to former President Pranab Mukherjee, former Governor Lalji Tandon and other leaders who died recently as the one-day session of the House began on Monday. Protem Speaker Rameshwar Sharma mentioned about the...

Schools in the South Korean capital Seoul and nearby areas resumed inperson classes for the first time in almost a month on Monday after daily coronavirus cases dropped to the lowest levels since midAugust.

Coronavirus LIVE Updates: India's Covid-19 tally breached 54.87 lakh with a spike of 86,961 new cases and 1,130 deaths in the last 24 hours. The total case tally stands at 54,87,581 including 10,03,299 active cases.

News18 has learnt that a notice was issued to get the 30-year-old building repaired and the municipal authorities had asked for the building to be vacated.

The BJP on Sunday observed what it called "Bengal's Mother Tongue Day" in memory of two young men who were killed in a clash with the police over recruitment of teachers in Uttar Dinajpur district on this day in 2018. BJP state president Dilip Ghosh de...

Sources said that for the first time, a joint secretary-level officer from the Ministry of External Affairs is expected to be part of the Indian delegation and India is looking for some concrete outcome from the dialogue.

The Punjab government on Sunday allowed students of classes 9 to 12 to visit their schools in areas outside containment zones on voluntary basis for taking guidance from their teachers amid coronavirus pandemic outbreak. The decision was taken in comp...

The tally of coronavirus positive cases in Nashik district of Maharashtra crossed the 64,000- mark on Sunday with the addition of 1,495 cases, health officials said. The case count now stands at 64,002, they said.