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New Delhi: India’s premier border guarding force BSF on Friday said that its 70,193 troopers have been awarded with Police Antrik Suraksha Seva Padak for Jammu and Kashmir (J&K), Left Wing Extremism (LWE) and North East regions.In a function...

Panaji: Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Friday announced to set up a task force to deal with the third Covid 19 wave.Speaking to reporters at state secretariat after cabinet meeting, he said, ''A special task force has been...

Thiruvananthapuram: The lockdown in Kerala has been extended till May 30 while the triple lockdown will continue in Malappuram district only."The average test positivity rate for the last three days is 23.3%. While the TPR is more in Malappuram,...

Bengaluru: Karnataka has reported 32218 fresh cases of the COVID-19 disease in the last 24-hours, taking the total number of people infected from the coronavirus in the state to 2367742 on Friday.According to official sources, in the last 2-hours,...

Bengaluru: The Karnataka government on Friday extended the lockdown till June 7 in the wake of the surge in the Covid-19 pandemic.Speaking to newsmen here, Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa said that the lockdown was further extended for 14 days.He...

Kolkata: A two-judge bench of Calcutta High Court ruled Friday that the three prominent leaders of the ruling Trinamool Congress and a former mayor of Kolkata will be kept under house arrest instead of jail custody in tune with...

Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin has written to President Ram Nath Kovind urging him to release all the seven life convicts in the former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi assassination case by accepting the September 2018 State...

Panaji: A Goa court has acquitted Tarun Tejpal, the founder-editor of Tehelka magazine, of rape charges.Tarun Tejpal was accused of sexually assaulting a colleague in 2013 on the sidelines of a conference at a five-star resort in Goa.In 2017,...

New Delhi: The daily rise in coronavirus cases in India remained below 3 lakh for the fifth consecutive day with 2.59 lakh new cases recorded in a single day, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Friday.With...

Mumbai: At least 13 Naxals were killed in an encounter with police in the Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra early Friday, police said.According to Sandeep Patil, Deputy Inspector General of Gadchiroli, the face-off started around 0500 hrs when the ultras...