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United Nations, Sep 30 (AP) The United Nations chief says the COVID-19 pandemic has taken an unprecedent toll especially on the economies of many developing countries and the world has not responded with the massive and urgent support those countries and...

A federal control board that oversees Puerto Ricos finances announced Wednesday that it has contacted federal and local law enforcement agencies after discovering the islands Department of Education paid more than $84 million to people who no longer work...

A religious organization tied to Amy Coney Barrett, President Trumps Supreme Court nominee, sought to erase all mentions and photos of her from its website before she meets with lawmakers and faces questions at her Senate confirmation hearings.

The AAP on Wednesday claimed that the BJP-ruled SDMC has decided to levy compensatory regulatory charges on vacant plots, a move which will adversely affect traders and residents of unauthorised colonies. The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) sought the interventio...

The 19-year-old Dalit woman, who died in a Delhi hospital a fortnight after she was gang-raped in Uttar Pradesh's Hathras, was cremated in the early hours of Wednesday.

MHA has also lifted the restrictions on gatherings of people (100 only), just ahead of campaigning for the Bihar Assembly elections.

: A woman devotee from Chennai on Wednesday made an offering of Rs 1 crore to Lord Venkateswara temple at Tirumala near here. She gave the sum with a request to utilise it for developing the temple-run TV channel 'Sri Venkateswara Bhakthi Channel (SV...

A U.S. citizen who is also a Saudi national is set to be tried in Saudi Arabia on Thursday by a counterterrorism court that has been used to imprison rights activists in a case that could spark further tensions in already uneasy U.S.Saudi relations.

According to research published in the journal Computers in Human Behavior, it was found that prolonged and excessive use of social media can result in depression and mental trauma.

An old interview of actor Ranbir Kapoor talking about his rumoured girlfriend Alia Bhatt is doing the rounds on the internet.

: The Finance Department here on Wednesday issued a circular requesting all employees of government departments, public sector undertakings, autonomous and local bodies to contribute their one-day salary to the COVID-19 Relief Fund. The circular lis...

Candidates who have applied for the RRB NTPC Recruitment dated January 2019 can check their application status online at rrbonlinereg.co.in.

A 22-year-old man died after being mauled by sloth bears in Chhattisgarh's Koriya district, a forest official said on Wednesday. Manoj Singh, the deceased, was attacked by bears in Nawapara locality of Chirmiri town, a hilly area surrounded by forest, o...

The University of Montevallo, a staterun liberal arts school, will rename two buildings that honor former Alabama governors who supported white supremacy, trustees decided.

A Gujarat court sentenced a Nepalese national to three years of imprisonment in an 18- year-old kidnapping case of a minor girl, for which he was arrested from Maharashtra three years ago. A sessions court in Porbandar, last week, convicted Virendra Set...

The state's food and civil supplies department had sent the proposal to the chief minister.