Edited By Nandini Gupta With Inputs From Agencies

Villagers from flood-affected areas of Madhya Pradesh were airlifted by the Indian Air Force, which is assisting the Shivraj Singh Chouhan government in the rescue and relief work as swollen rivers continue to inundate large parts of the state.

A pregnant woman was among the three people rescued by a team of the Dhenkanal district administration and the Odisha Disaster Rapid Action Force as the state's major rivers and their tributaries remained in spate after days of heavy rainfall in their catchment areas in Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh.

Dismissing fears about privatisation of the Indian Space Research Organisation, ISRO, its Chairman and Space Department Secretary K Sivan said the recently announced space sector reforms - allowing participation of private players - will allow the agency to move away from the routine and better utilise its resources for "technology development and ...

Hours after Democratic Presidential candidate Joe Biden made history by picking Indian-origin Senator Kamala Harris as his running mate, Ms Harris's sister tweeted an emotional video introducing the woman "who made it all possible" - their mother.

There will be likely delay of a year in implementing the National Green Tribunal's (NGT) order banning RO purifiers in areas, where the total dissolved solids or contaminants in water are below 500 milligrams per litre, as the Ministry of Environment and Forests has expressed its inability to complete this exercise due to the coronavirus (COVID-19)...

A division bench of the Allahabad High Court granted bail today to the former chief engineer of the Noida Authority, Yadav Singh, who was arrested this February for allegedly awarding projects to seven people at rates higher than those prevalent in the market, thereby causing a loss to the government.

Four, state-of-the-art, contactless field hospitals, with a total of 3,520 beds and 222 intensive care and acute care beds, were commissioned in Mumbai, increasing the city's capacity to fight the coronavirus disease even as its daily case growth date registered a slight decline and that of its satellite towns increased.

Flood waters swept away cattle in a Gujarat village after heavy and incessant rainfall in the state's Saurashtra region left many areas flooded. A video shared by news agency ANI, shows animals that appear to be buffalos getting washed away in a river of high-speed waters that filled the streets of a village in Rajkot district. At least at eight ca...

The total number of coronavirus cases in Delhi has crossed the 70,000-mark, displacing Mumbai as the worst hit-city in India which recorded 16,922 new patients - the biggest day-on-day surge for a second consecutive day.

IAS officer BM Vijay Shankar, investigated over allegations of bribery in the Rs 4,000-crore IMA Ponzi Scam was found dead at his home in a posh Bengaluru neighbourhood on Tuesday evening. The police confirmed suicide.

Villagers from flood-affected areas of Madhya Pradesh were airlifted by the Indian Air Force, which is assisting the Shivraj Singh Chouhan government in the rescue and relief work as swollen rivers continue to inundate large parts of the state.

A pregnant woman was among the three people rescued by a team of the Dhenkanal district administration and the Odisha Disaster Rapid Action Force as the state's major rivers and their tributaries remained in spate after days of heavy rainfall in their catchment areas in Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh.

Dismissing fears about privatisation of the Indian Space Research Organisation, ISRO, its Chairman and Space Department Secretary K Sivan said the recently announced space sector reforms - allowing participation of private players - will allow the agency to move away from the routine and better utilise its resources for "technology development and ...

Hours after Democratic Presidential candidate Joe Biden made history by picking Indian-origin Senator Kamala Harris as his running mate, Ms Harris's sister tweeted an emotional video introducing the woman "who made it all possible" - their mother.

There will be likely delay of a year in implementing the National Green Tribunal's (NGT) order banning RO purifiers in areas, where the total dissolved solids or contaminants in water are below 500 milligrams per litre, as the Ministry of Environment and Forests has expressed its inability to complete this exercise due to the coronavirus (COVID-19)...

A division bench of the Allahabad High Court granted bail today to the former chief engineer of the Noida Authority, Yadav Singh, who was arrested this February for allegedly awarding projects to seven people at rates higher than those prevalent in the market, thereby causing a loss to the government.

Four, state-of-the-art, contactless field hospitals, with a total of 3,520 beds and 222 intensive care and acute care beds, were commissioned in Mumbai, increasing the city's capacity to fight the coronavirus disease even as its daily case growth date registered a slight decline and that of its satellite towns increased.

Flood waters swept away cattle in a Gujarat village after heavy and incessant rainfall in the state's Saurashtra region left many areas flooded. A video shared by news agency ANI, shows animals that appear to be buffalos getting washed away in a river of high-speed waters that filled the streets of a village in Rajkot district. At least at eight ca...

The total number of coronavirus cases in Delhi has crossed the 70,000-mark, displacing Mumbai as the worst hit-city in India which recorded 16,922 new patients - the biggest day-on-day surge for a second consecutive day.

IAS officer BM Vijay Shankar, investigated over allegations of bribery in the Rs 4,000-crore IMA Ponzi Scam was found dead at his home in a posh Bengaluru neighbourhood on Tuesday evening. The police confirmed suicide.