The rise in the number of coronavirus cases has prompted Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) to postpone IPL 2020. As a precautionary measure against the COVID-19 infection, the BCCI postponed the tournament till April 15. The Twenty20 cricket tournament was scheduled to commence on March 2

Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh Assembly Speaker N P Prajapati has issued notices to 22 Congress MLAs who have resigned, asking them to appear before him by Friday and clarify whether they have quit voluntarily or under pressure, a legislature official said on Thursday. The BJP, meanwhile, has said it wil

New Delhi: A day after announcing his resignation from the Congress, Jyotiraditya Scindia joined the BJP on Wednesday in presence of the ruling party's president JP Nadda. According to sources, the BJP is likely to name him as one of its candidates for the Rajya Sabha polls in Madhya Pradesh and

  New Delhi: Lok Sabha on Wednesday passed a motion to revoke the suspension of seven Congress members with immediate effect. The seven Congress members-- Gaurav Gogoi, T N Prathapan, Dean Kuriakose, R Unnithan, Manickam Tagore, Benny Behanan and Gurjeet Singh Aujla were suspended on Marc

Bengaluru: While 19 Congress MLAs from Madhya Pradesh have taken shelter in Bengaluru city, the party high command is hardly getting any support from its Karnataka unit find their whereabouts. While 17 MLAs, including six ministers landed on Monday evening, two of the four MLAs, who had come down

Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh government on Tuesday said it was yet to decide whether to approach the Supreme Court against the Allahabad High Court’s order to immediately remove the posters of those accused of vandalism during protests against the amended citizenship law. The posters, bearing photo

Kochi: Athree-year old child has tested positive for the novel coronavirus, officials said here on Monday. The child and its parents who had reached the Cochin International Airport Limited at 6 am on March 7 from Italy were subjected to thermal screening at the universal surveillance system establi

Allahabad: The Allahabad High Court on Monday directed the Lucknow administration to remove posters of those accused of vandalism during anti-CAA protests in December. The bench of Chief Justice Govind Mathur and Justice Ramesh Sinha directed the district magistrate and the Lucknow police commiss

New Delhi: The News Broadcasters Association has said it was “shocked” that the decision to ban two Malayalam news channels was taken “without the knowledge” of Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar, and demanded an inquiry into how this happened. In a statement, NBA president R

NEW DELHI : India on Sunday recorded five more cases of deadly coronavirus (also known as COVID-19), taking the total number of confirmed cases to 39. Five more people from Kerala, three with recent travel history to Italy, have tested positive for coronavirus following which the state has been p

After banking partner Yes Bank was put under restriction by the Reserve Bank of India on Thursday evening, payments firm PhonePe suffered an outage. PhonePe users were unable to pay using the platform. The platform acknowledged the outage and said that the services were temporarily unavailable bu

New Delhi: A Delhi man with a travel history to Thailand and Malaysia has tested positive for coronavirus, taking the total number of confirmed cases in India to 31, health ministry officials said on Friday. The latest case is the third in Delhi. “One suspected COVID19 case has been confirmed

Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Thursday suspended 7 Congress MPs -- Gaurav Gogoi, TN Prathapan, Manickam Tagore, Gurjeet Singh Aujla, Benny Behanan, Rajmohan Unnithan and Adv. Dean Kuriakose for disrupting the proceedings of the House for the rest of the Budget Session. The motion was passed by a

New Delhi: Expelled Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Councillor Tahir Hussain, who was absconding in connection with the murder case of Intelligence Bureau (IB) staffer Ankit Sharma, was arrested on Thursday after the court rejected his surrender application. Hussain had on Tuesday moved a Delhi court for a

In an unprecedented move, the UN human rights chief has said she intends to intervene in India’s Supreme Court on the contentious Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA), prompting New Delhi to assert on Tuesday that no foreign party has such a right in matters related to the country’s sovereignty. The

New Delhi: President Ram Nath Kovind has rejected the mercy petition of the last of the four death row convicts in the gang-rape and murder of the 23-year-old medical student in Delhi dubbed "Nirbhaya". With this, the convicts exhaust all options for relief from the death sentence. The authorities o

Noida: Shriram Millennium School in Sector 135 Noida on Tuesday decided to shut down the premises for two days and also postpone its annual examinations after a student's parent tested positive for coronavirus on Monday. A total of 40 students of the school have been tested for the virus and sent

Mumbai: The Shiv Sena on Monday slammed Maharashtra BJP president Chandrakant Patil for demanding that the city of Aurangabad be renamed as 'Sambhajinagar' after Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj's elder son, Sambhaji. An editorial in Shiv Sena mouthpiece 'Saamana' reminded the BJP that"Aurangabad was