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LUCKNOW: Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati on Thursday hit out at the Union government over its new 'Agneepath scheme' of recruiting soldiers, terming it “unfair towards rural youth”. As announced, 'Agneepath' or 'Agneeveer'…

NEW DELHI: India on Thursday saw nearly a 40% jump with a single day rise of 12,213 new Covid-19 cases, pushing the total tally of coronavirus cases since the start of the pandemic to 4,32,57,730. India's active cases rose to 58,215 in…

NEW DELHI: Eleven candidates filed papers on the first day of filing nominations for the presidential poll with one nomination having been rejected as it was not accompanied by proper documents, sources said on Wednesday. The process of…

WASHINGTON: The United States has announced a funding of $122 million to top three Indian medical research institutions to prevent avoidable epidemics, early detection of disease threats, and rapid and effective response. The total…

KOLKATA: The Calcutta high court on Wednesday ordered a court-monitored CBI investigation into the primary teacher recruitment scam. Dissatisfied with the progress of the probe into irregularities in secondary teacher and non-teaching…

NEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi will chair the first national conference of chief secretaries of states on May 16 at Dharamshala aimed at strengthening the partnership between the Centre and state governments. There will be more than 200…

NEW DELHI: A booster dose of Covaxin broadens its efficacy against the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 virus and even protects against Omicron variants — BA.1.1 and BA.2— a new study conducted on hamsters by Pune’s National Institute of…

NEW DELHI: With the global save soil movement heading for its last leg of awareness campaign bringing 74 countries on board, Sadhguru of the Isha Foundation has said it’s now time to handhold farmers both within India and outside to…

NEW DELHI: Noting that the “law of the land weighs in the favour of public interest over certain individual interests”, the Delhi high court dismissed a plea seeking directions to quash a central government order permitting the…

CHANDIGARH: The CBI arrested a Himachal Pradesh high court judge’s daughter, Kalyani Singh, on Wednesday in connection with the murder of a national-level shooter and advocate, Sukhmanpreet Singh Sidhu, alias Sippy Sidhu. Kalyani was…