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Nearly seven per cent of India's population aged ten and above was exposed to SARS-CoV-2, amounting to an estimated 74.3 million infections by August, with the seroprevalence being highest in urban slum areas followed by urban non-slum and rural areas, the findings of ICMR's second national serosurvey stated.

Union Minister of State for Home Affairs G Kishan Reddy on Thursday said that the centre has reports on illegal migrants staying in the old city of Hyderabad and the government is working on this aspect.

India's National Security Advisor Ajit Doval will arrive in Sri Lanka for a high-level regional maritime dialogue beginning Friday, Lanka's military spokesman said on Thursday.

Nepal and China will jointly announce the revised height of Mt Everest, the world's highest peak, probably during the upcoming visit of the Chinese defence minister to the Himalayan nation, according to media reports on Thursday.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday condemned the police action on farmers in Haryana and said the BJP has snatched their livelihood and is trying to curb their rights.

Iterating that freedom fighter Subhas Chandra Bose and his contributions to the country's freedom movement have long been "neglected", West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday said

Former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda on Thursday asked the Centre to treat farmers with dignity and engage with them, as he expressed "extreme distress" over police confrontation with them.

More than 1.4 crore cashless treatments worth over Rs 17,500 crore have been provided to poor citizens under central government''s Ayushman Bharat - Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojna (AB-PMJAY) till date, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said on Thursday.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed grief over the demise of TCS founder Faqir Chand Kohli, who died at the age of 96 on Thursday, and said he will be remembered his enormous contribution to the information technology industry.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday mooted a KYC drive--'Know Your Constitution'--to popularise the document similar to the KYC (know your customer) practice in the corporate world even as the union law minister lamented the use of terms like "judicial barbarism" to attack the courts.

Alleging that Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar's tweets over the arrest of an accused in a corruption case amounted to "obstruction of justice", a TMC MP on Thursday asked the Kolkata Police to contemplate filing a case against the constitutional head of the state.

A 26/11 Mumbai attack-like terror strike in India is almost impossible as the national security architecture has been significantly bolstered in the last few year, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said on Thursday, the 12th anniversary of the deadly Mumbai attack in which 166 were killed.

Health Minister Satyendar Jain on Thursday said the testing capacity for COVID-19 has reached the "saturation level" in the national capital and laboratories here are finding it difficult to release results of all RT-PCR tests within a day.

Nearly seven per cent of India's population aged ten and above was exposed to SARS-CoV-2, amounting to an estimated 74.3 million infections by August, with the seroprevalence being highest in urban slum areas followed by urban non-slum and rural areas, the findings of ICMR's second national serosurvey stated.

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy has launched the PM Street Vendors AtmaNirbhar Nidhi (PM SVANidhi) scheme, meant for extending collateral-free loans up to Rs 10,000 each to street vendors, but named it after himself, drawing flak from the BJP.