New Delhi

Axis Bank was the top laggard in the Sensex pack, rising around 3 per cent, followed by IndusInd Bank, Bajaj Finance, Tata Steel, Infosys, HDFC twins and ICICI Bank.

The Ministry of External Affairs said Islamabad has no locus standi over the issue.

The seven deaths -- four on-board trains travelling to Bihar and three terminating in Uttar Pradesh -- happened over the past few days, and were reported on Wednesday.

The death audit committee will go through the reports received from the hospital on Tuesday evening, which contain the death summaries of the deceased, to ascertain if these fatalities were due to COVID-19 or not.

The petition, filed by two Assam residents, has claimed that present delimitation exercise is sought to be conducted on the basis of census 2001 despite the fact that census 2011 has already been conducted.

The lawyer, who argued the case through video-conferencing, said that the Centre had earlier sought transfer of similar cases from some High Courts to the apex court.

The Delhi government said apart from the regular entitlement under PDS for May 2020, food has been distributed as an additional entitlement under Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKY) and Mukhya Mantri Corona Sahayta Yojana for April 2020 from f...

CK Mishra, who is also the environment secretary, says while people will get infected and they will get cured, deaths need to be kept under control.

It is not clear if Hardeep Singh Puri has included the international repatriation flights being operated under Vande Bharat Mission in his revised figure of 832 flights.

However, the lawyers should be dressed in a sober and dignified manner, an administrative order issued by the court said.

This plan will be available for sale commencing from Tuesday for three financial years up to March 2023, LIC said in a statement, adding that the scheme can be purchased offline as well as online from LIC website.

The rescue-and-relief operations in West Bengal were discussed at a meeting of the National Crisis Management Committee (NCMC).

Rajasthan's Churu also recorded a maximum temperature of 46.6 degrees Celsius, the highest in the country as on Saturday.

The revenue collection from liquor -- which is a major source of income for the city government -- is likely to increase further with the opening up of more liquor shops from Saturday.

Mehraj Uddin Wadoo publicly lashed out at J&K police for ill treating him when he was rushing to see his ill mother but deleted the tweet soon after.

Shahjehanpur native Adesh Singh with his wife and three little children, who left their residence in south Delhi three days ago, are still scrambling to reach home, haggling with taxi drivers, to take them to their home town charging a reasonable fare.