Raichur: As many as 58 students of a government school in this district took ill after having mid-day meals, education officials said on Thursday.
New Delhi: The government on Thursday hiked the windfall profit tax on the export of diesel to Rs 7 per litre and brought back a tax on jet fuel exports, but slashed the levy on domestically produced crude oil in line with softening rates.
Chitradurga (K'taka), Aug 18: Recalling the turn of events which led to his party and Congress joining hands to form a coalition government in Karnataka after the 2018 assembly polls, JD(S) leader H D Kumaraswamy on Thursday said no one knows what developments would take place post the 2023 election results.
New Delhi: The number of excess deaths across 90 of Gujarat's 162 municipalities from March 2020 to April 2021 were double the state's official COVID-19 mortality numbers for the period, according to a study.Excess mortality is defined as the increase in observed death counts compared to expected mortality.
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday described as a "serious issue" the matter raised by an NGO relating to the CBDT's allegation against the makers of Dolo tablets that they had distributed freebies worth about Rs 1,000 crore to doctors for prescribing their 650 mg anti-inflammatory, fever reducer drug.
New Delhi, Aug 18: Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Thursday attacked the Centre on the row over accommodation of Rohingyas here, saying this "confusion" in the government is a disgrace to a nation that has served on the executive committee of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
Sehore (MP): A video of farmers throwing sacks full of garlic into a river in Madhya Pradesh, apparently due to low prices, surfaced on social media on Thursday, prompting calls to allow export of the commodity.
Mangaluru: BJP leader Yashpal Suvarna has urged the Udupi city municipal council to give permission to install a statue of V D Savarkar at Brahmagiri Circle in the city.
North Lakhimpur: A 45-year-old man, who escaped from court two days back and was accused of rape and murder, was lynched by a mob on Thursday in Assam's Lakhimpur district, police said.
Bangkok: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Thursday that the relationship between India and China is going through an "extremely difficult phase" after what Beijing has done at the border and emphasised that the Asian Century will not happen if the two neighbours could not join hands.
