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Police and rescue personnel evacuate a local resident through a flooded street in a coastal area after heavy rains under the influence of cyclone Tauktae in Kochi on May 14, 2021. (Arunchandra BOSE / AFP)

PM Modi to review preparations to deal with Cyclone Tauktae

Top officers from across government departments, including the National Disaster Management Authority, will attend the...

15 May 2021 11:14 AM IST

PM Modi was speaking at the release of the eighth installment of financial benefits under the PM-Kisan scheme via video conferencing. (Photo: PTI)

COVID-19 spreading to rural India: PM Modi

The Centre, he said, was working on a war footing to check the second wave of infections

15 May 2021 8:33 AM IST

Dhankar claimed that he wrote to the Speaker of the Assembly, informing him about his visit. (Photo: ANI)

Dhankar slams Mamata's silence on poll violence

The governor alleged that Banerjee, at her election campaigns, had provoked her supporters, especially women, to oppose...

15 May 2021 8:17 AM IST

Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma expressed concern over the grenade blast and asked DGP Bhaskar Jyoti Mahanta to deal with the incident sternly and nab the miscreants at the earliest. ANI file photo

Grenade blast in Assam kills two

The incident comes days after Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma's appeal to Ulfa-I commander-in-chief to shun the...

15 May 2021 8:12 AM IST

A relative of a Covid-19 victim (2L) pays his respect before a cremation at Nigambodh Ghat Crematorium on the banks of the Yamuna river in New Delhi in the early hour of April 22, 2021. (AFP)

Over 2,000 bodies found in Ganga river

Health ministry is in close touch with UP, Bihar govt to ensure immediate check to stop the spread

15 May 2021 8:09 AM IST

The weather condition has intensified into a deep depression. It is very likely to further intensify into cyclonic storm Tauktae by Saturday morning. (Image: Twitter @Indiametdept)

Cyclone Tauktae to intensify into very severe storm: IMD

The depression in the Arabian Sea is likely to intensify into a very severe cyclonic storm on May 17 and cross the...

15 May 2021 1:03 AM IST

Babu was arrested by the National Investigation Agency in July 2020. (Photo: PTI/File)

Bhima Koregaon case: Accused Hany Babu tests Covid positive, says...

Babu was admitted to the state-run JJ hospital on Thursday for the follow up treatment of his eye infection

15 May 2021 12:08 AM IST

Soumya, who hailed from Keralas Idukki district, worked as a caregiver attending to an old woman at a house in the southern Israeli coastal city of Ashkelon. (Photo: Twitter)

Mortal remains of Indian woman killed in Israel rocket attack sent to...

The jet carrying her body left from Ben-Gurion airport at around 7 PM on Friday and is likely to arrive in Delhi...

14 May 2021 10:45 PM IST

Fishing boats anchored at Vizhinjam Coast following a cyclone alert in Thiruvananthapuram, Thursday, May 13, 2021. Fishermen have been prohibited from venturing out to sea from Thursday due to the cyclone alert over the Arabian Sea. (PTI)

Cyclone 'Tauktae': NDRF earmarks 53 teams for five states

Teams are being deployed in the coastal regions of Kerala, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat and Maharashtra

14 May 2021 1:36 PM IST

Justice N.V. Ramana launches a mobile app to grant access to the media to court proceedings without having to come physically to the Supreme Court, to help in their job of reporting. PTI

CJI considering live telecast of apex court proceedings

The Supreme Court had permitted the live streaming of court proceedings in cases of constitutional and national...

14 May 2021 7:57 AM IST

Himanta biswa Sarma, Assam education minister

NRC coordinator moves apex court for comprehensive reverification

Sarma also pleaded that in the Original Inhabitants category and the Persons from other States category, errors had...

14 May 2021 7:50 AM IST

This is the second time the gap between the two doses of COVISHIELD is increased after it was earlier permitted for 4-8 weeks of spacing. (Photo: AFP)

Gap for Covishield extended to 16 weeks

The decision for higher spacing between two shots comes amid speculation that it has been done in view of shortage of...

14 May 2021 1:17 AM IST