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Mumbai: Provisions of the government's new Information Technology Rules for news publishers that deal with a code of ethics have been put on hold by the Bombay High Court which said the requirements violated freedom of speech. The rules...

New Delhi: August 14 would be observed as 'Partition Horrors Remembrance Day', Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced on Saturday."Partition’s pains can never be forgotten. Millions of our sisters and brothers were displaced and many lost their lives due to...

New Delhi: President Ram Nath Kovind here on Saturday said he shared the grief of all families affected by the COVID-19 and cautioned that the pandemic is not over yet and precautions need to be continued.Addressing the nation on...

New Delhi: President Ram Nath Kovind hosted a ‘High Tea’ for the Indian contingent of the Tokyo Olympics 2020 at the Rashtrapati Bhavan Cultural Centre, here on Saturday.Vice-President M Venkaiah Naidu also graced the occasion.While interacting with the Indian...

New Delhi: India has reported 38,667 new Covid-19 cases and 478 deaths in the last 24 hours, a marginal decline in daily cases and deaths.Today's cases were 3.6 per cent lower than yesterday's cases.With the fresh cases, the cumulative...

New Delhi: India on Friday termed as “absurd”, comments by the Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi accusing Indian intelligence agencies of the July 14 Dasu blast in which nine Chinese workers were killed, and said that such “desperate...

New Delhi: Amid the dramatic surge of ransomware attacks in 2021, researchers of Barracuda, a trusted partner and leading provider of cloud-enabled security solutions analyzed 121 ransomware incidents between August 2020 and July 2021 and identified a 64% rise...

New Delhi: External Affairs Minister (EAM) S Jaishankar has said that facilitating hassle-free travelling of Indian nationals abroad with regard to vaccination is a top priority of his ministry."It is one of my top priorities to ensure that Indians...

New Delhi: As many as 40,120 people tested positive for the novel coronavirus in the country during the past 24 hours, taking the cumulative tally of cases to 3,21,17,826 while 585 succumbed in the same period.The fresh fatalities mounted...

Jajpur (Odisha): In a bizarre case of human revenge, a 45-year-old tribal man reportedly bit a snake to death after the latter bit him in a remote village in Odisha's Jajpur district.Kishore Badra of Gambharipatia village under Salijanga panchayat under...