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Women covers themselves with sheets during rain, in New Delhi. PTI Photo

Sucheta Dasgupta | The Women's Party: An opening manifesto

There are three ways of ensuring equality of opportunity between the sexes free access, affirmative action and...

2 Aug 2020 5:03 PM IST

NASA astronauts Bob Behnken (R) and Doug Hurley walk out of the Operations and Checkout Building on their way to the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the Crew Dragon spacecraft on launch pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. (File Image: AFP)

NASA astronauts homebound despite hurricane concerns in Florida

NASA footage showed the capsule drifting slowly away from the ISS in the darkness of space, ending a two month stay

2 Aug 2020 4:49 PM IST

I like muddled characters says actress Rasika Dugal

Rasika Dugal enjoys experimenting as an actor, She says her primary goal is to explore different types of characters

2 Aug 2020 4:44 PM IST

Sukla Murmu, hailing from neighbouring Chirang district, was charged with rape and lodged in Kokrajhar Jail since May 5. (Representative Image)

COVID-19 positive prisoner nabbed by police, escaped from Assam's...

The prisoner had escaped from Kokrajhar's RNB Civil Hospital on Tuesday night, Superintendent of Police Rakesh Roshan...

2 Aug 2020 4:26 PM IST

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi. (PTI Photo)

High time Mehbooba Mufti is released, says Rahul Gandhi

The Jammu and Kashmir administration last week extended Mehbooba's detention under PSA by another three months

2 Aug 2020 4:22 PM IST

UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath did an aerial survey of the flood hit regions of Uttar Pradesh. PTI photo

61 villages in Bahraich flooded after Nepal releases water

The National Disaster Response Force personnel have been deployed in the area to rescue people

2 Aug 2020 4:09 PM IST

Assam allows inter-district travel on 2 days of week; night curfew, weekend shutdown to continue. (PTI Photo)

Assam: New COVID-19 guidelines issued, allows inter-district travel on...

Night curfew from 6 pm to 6 am on all days and total lockdown on weekends, Chief Secretary Kumar Sanjay Krishna said

2 Aug 2020 3:52 PM IST

A health worker takes sample of a cop for COVID testing in Navi Mumbai. PTI photo

ICMR for clinical registry of hospitalised COVID-19 patients

This will help researchers and policy makers understand effectiveness of investigational therapies

2 Aug 2020 3:35 PM IST

File photo shows UPs Cabinet minister for Technical Education Kamal Rani Varun distributing sanitizer and masks among people. Pic: Twitter

UP Cabinet minister Kamal Rani dies due to COVID-19

Kamal Rani is the first minister in Uttar Pradesh to die after contracting coronavirus

2 Aug 2020 2:55 PM IST

illagers wade through a flooded area following incessant rain, in Saharsa district, Bihar. (PTI)

India Meteorological Department to use artificial intelligence in...

Officials say this can help improve 3-6 hours prediction of extreme weather events, especially for issuing nowcasts

2 Aug 2020 2:37 PM IST

A boy walks past a destroyed house after the overflow of the Magua river due to heavy rains caused by Isaias storm in the city of Hato Mayor, northwest of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. (AFP)

Florida braces for hurricane as Isaias approaches

Florida's coronavirus testing centers are closed and will not reopen until they get the all-clear after the storm

2 Aug 2020 1:46 PM IST

Israeli medical workers are briefed during an exercise of the new COVID-19 department at Rambam Hospital in the northern Israeli city of Haifa, Israel. (AP)

Israeli minister for Jerusalem tests positive

Peretz is the second Israeli minister to have been infected with the virus after former health minister Yaakov Litzman

2 Aug 2020 1:31 PM IST