Shops, schools and other commercial establishments were closed in parts of Bihar, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Punjab but the shutdown call by anti-reservation bodies had little impact elsewhere in the country.
Heavy fog engulfed parts of Delhi with the minimum temperature settling at a notch below normal.
The rescue operations, which were halted late Tuesday night, resumed on Wednesday morning and two more bodies were retrieved from the canal, which is part of the Bansagar dam project, Sidhi's Additional Superintendent of Police Anjulata Patle said.
A Delhi Police spokesperson said that nearly 500 personnel have tested positive for the deadly virus so far.
MP was a good team but it was Pandit, who brought about changes that were required to transform it into a champion team
A Russian woman has been killed and another woman passenger injured when armed robbers opened fire in the 1073 UP Kamrani Express train near Rewa in Madhya Pradesh.
Modi said he used the 'bitter medicine' of demonetisation to bring back money into banking system.
Driver of the Rewa-bound bus, carrying 40 passengers from Hinoti, lost control at a sharp turn causing the vehicle to crash through a mud structrue built around the pond.
The deceased has been identified as Siraj, he said.
A large number of migrants were waiting for food and transport on MP-Maharashtra border for hours.
Six months after the lockdown was imposed, two dozen migrant workers were interviewed across five villages of Prayagraj. As the economy opens up, most of them are either hunting for a job or desperately waiting for a phone call from their previous employers. But the bruises of the lockdown are still fresh in their minds. Somesh Jha reports.
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The deceased children were students of Lucky Convent School in Birsinghpur, police said.
Jharkhand batsman Ishank Jaggi scored a gutsy century to bail his team out of a precarious situation as East Zone finished their first innings at a respectable 232 against Central Zone on the third day of Duleep Trophy final.
Dalit votes could play a decisive role in 28-30 constituencies in the 230-member assembly.
The Pakistani Express Tribune said that Ahmed put up the bounty in retaliation of the US reward for the capture of LeT founder Hafiz Saeed.
Beyond the public rallies and welcome sabhas, Bhartiya Janta Party's senior leader Lal Krishna Advani holds en-route to his sixth rath yatra which started on October 11, there is much preparation that goes on the backstage that misses the immediate attention, says Priyanka.
The state has 720 km long coastal line with two major ports, namely Mumbai Port Trust and Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust.
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'Why shouldn't we talk against the BJP when it is solely responsible for bringing in these three laws by riding rough over Parliamentary procedures and norms?' 'We will talk against the BJP because it is the sole political party responsible for pushing these destructive farm laws'
Nagori and Mohammad Saleem were shifted to Rewa Jail, while Abdul Razzaq and Akbar Baig were transferred to Shahdol jail, under tight security, official sources said on Monday. Another SIMI activist Sheikh Mumtaz was shifted to Satna jail.
Justice Rewa Khetrapal directed the company to file its response by August 20 when the matter will be taken up for further hearing.
After two and a half months of taking oath, MP Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has many challenges before him. The first is to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic, which has affected more than 10,000 people in the state. But The political challenges are even more daunting, reports Sandeep Kumar.
Real estate companies are rushing in on the opportunities galore around the two SEZs promoted by Reliance Industries.
Several schools in the state declared a holiday as traffic was disrupted due to inundation of low-lying areas.
All the ports are being constructed on a built-operate-transfer (BOT) basis, state Chief Secretary D K Sankaran told PTI in New Delhi.
The Madhya Pradesh government on Tuesday tabled a bill that would make it difficult to file "irritating" litigation against a single person.
A good agricultural harvest and a timely arrival of monsoon, besides a slew of government schemes, have also come as a bounty.
Her dad buried her because he could not bear the 'trauma' of having a third girl child. The incident took place in Rewa district on Madhya Pradesh.
The migrants said that they prefer trucks and tempos to go back to their native places as the trucks drop them close to their villages, while buses drop them only till the state border, from where they have to find another mode of transport to reach home.
Avani Chaturvedi, Mohana Singh and Bhawana Kanth will shortly enter the history books by being the first three women cadets to be cleared to fly fighter aircraft in India.
'If we don't get any bus from here, we will start walking home.' 'What else can we do?' 'We don't want to die of hunger here.'
Twenty people were killed on Saturday in rain-related incidents in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan even as rivers continued to be in spate in Bihar.
The Bhopal seat is currently held by Alok Sanjar of the BJP.
The migrants were ferried to their villages in sanitised buses arranged by the Jharkhand government to take them home after preliminary medical screening at the station, officials said.
'The situation has improved because oxygen tankers are now coming.' 'Before this it was chaotic.'
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