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A 20-year-old woman, who had tested positive for coronavirus at AIIMS in Delhi, allegedly escaped from the hospital, even as her husband filed a missing person's complaint despite knowing her whereabouts, the police said on Wednesday.

Samajwadi Party leader Ram Gopal Yadav on Wednesday filed his nomination papers for the November 9 Rajya Sabha election, officials said.

The Bombay High Court on Wednesday questined Republic TV if asking viewers who should be arrested in a case that is under investigation, and infringing upon a person's rights qualified as "investigative journalism".

BJP president JP Nadda said that prior to 2014, nobody used to present the work done to the people, but Prime Minister Narendra Modi has changed that.

The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Kharagpur has developed a low-cost portable COVID-19 testing device that can deliver results within an hour and it has also received certification from the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR).

The locomotive engine of a goods train was "seized" by the Assam Forest Department on Tuesday, weeks after it ran over a 35-year-old female elephant and its calf while passing through the Lumding Reserve Forest.

Durga Puja organizers - particularly the big ones - are planning to install giant screens near the puja pandals for people to see the deity of Goddess Durga. Many puja committees have already made arrangements and welcomed the court decision. They said the arrangements for 'anjali' and 'sandhi puja' will be tweaked adhering to court orders.

Air pollution killed 476,000 newborns in 2019, with the biggest hotspots in India and Sub-Saharan Africa, according to a new global study which said that nearly two-thirds of the deaths came from noxious fumes from cooking fuels.

Former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath on Wednesday was asked by the Election Commission to explain within 48 hours his "item" remark against a woman BJP candidate.

Up to 30 protesting farmer unions of Punjab today lifted the three-week-old blockade on goods trains, backing the new bills passed by the state government to counter the new Central farm laws.

Political activity in Jammu and Kashmir may be fledgling once again with the release of leaders detained after the scrapping of its decades-old special status but the central government is far from giving up its handle on the narrative. On Thursday, the centre will hold a special event to showcase how Pakistani actions led to the spate of terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir and how the country is responsible for the suffering of the people in the erstwhile state.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today spoke to South Korean president Moon Jae-in, as the two leaders reviewed important global developments, including the progress in combating the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Congress-RJD combine's poll pact with ultra-Left CPI(ML) in Bihar is deplorable and unfortunate as it can lead to a resurgence of naxalism in the state which has reeled under Maoist violence for long, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said on Wednesday.

Bimal Gurung, who was leading a statehood movement for Gorkhas in Bengal's Darjeeling area and has been missing since 2017, was spotted in Kolkata today. Sources said he was seen in a car outside the Gorkha Bhavan guest house in Salt Lake and left after a 30-minute wait. The gates were not opened though the local police were on spot.

Opposition leader Tejashwi Yadav's jam-packed rallies have gone viral in the campaign for the Bihar election starting next week. The Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader's promise of creating 10 lakh government jobs, repeated at every rally, draws the loudest cheers. Today, a different video showed Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's angry reaction to slogans of "Lalu Yadav Zindabad" at his rally.