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New Delhi: The families of those who die of Covid will receive ₹ 50,000 ex gratia from the state governments, the Centre informed the Supreme Court Wednesday.Significantly, compensation will be paid against not only for deaths that have already...

New Delhi: Tamil Nadu Governor R N Ravi Wednesday resigned as the interlocutor for the Naga peace talks, the home ministry said, adding his resignation has been accepted with immediate effect.Ravi had been holding peace negotiations with the Naga...

New Delhi: India is facing a new war paradigm on its borders and ignoring it won't work, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said on Tuesday, citing a media report on China ramping up its border infrastructure.The former Congress chief's remarks came...

Guwahati: Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and Nagaland Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio held a meeting with the leadership of NSCN-IM, the largest armed Naga group in Dimapur, the commercial city of Nagaland on Tuesday.This was the first time...

Moscow: France will discuss the new NATO strategic concept bearing in mind the crisis in its relations with the United States, which formed a new strategic partnership with London and Canberra behind its ally's back, French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves...

Beijing: The Chinese mainland on Saturday reported 43 new locally transmitted COVID-19 cases, all in Fujian Province, the National Health Commission said in its daily report on Sunday.Also reported were 23 new imported cases, including nine in Yunnan, three...

Kuala Lumpur: Malaysia reported another 15,549 new COVID-19 infections as of midnight Saturday, bringing the national total to 2,082,876, according to the health ministry.Five of the new cases are imported and 15,544 are local transmissions, data released on the...

Bengaluru: In a heart-wrenching incident a two-year-old girl survived with the bodies of her five family members for three days after they allegedly died by suicide at their Bengaluru home. But another nine-month-old infant starved to death.The two-year-old was...

New Delhi/Beijing:  External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has told his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi that the two sides should work for an early resolution of the remaining issues along the LAC in eastern Ladakh to restore peace and tranquillity...

Moscow: Moscow calls on the United States to refrain from further interference in the internal affairs of Russia as it may no longer resist taking measures against the US business, Maria Zakharova, the Russian Foreign Ministry’s spokeswoman, said on...