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In a U-turn, the Opposition United Democratic Front (UDF) on Wednesday said the Kerala Congress (M) faction led by Jose K Mani had not been ousted, but had only been asked to keep away from the front meetings.

IndiGo said today that it will give a 25 percent discount on the airfare to doctors and nurses till the end of 2020 as they are at the forefront of the battle against the coronavirus pandemic.

Congress MP Karti Chidambaram on Thursday called for declaring party's General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra as the Chief Ministerial candidate for the state.

Congress's Rahul Gandhi today took on the government over its first move to privatize the railways, suggesting that the people will not forgive it for the move.

Millions of Indians have joined homegrown social media platforms since the centre banned a slew of Chinese apps, including TikTok, amid growing tensions between the two neighbours, industry officials said today.

An Indian Army Brigadier posted at the Eastern Command in Kolkata died due to COVID-19, a spokesperson said.

An earthquake of magnitude 3.6 was reported near Gandoh in Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday afternoon, according to India's National Center for Seismology.

If anyone casts an "evil eye", India can give a fitting reply, Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said today on the China crisis, commenting that if 20 jawans lost their lives in the June 15 brawl in the Galwan river Valley in Ladakh, "the toll is double on the Chinese side".

An earthquake of magnitude 4.5 was reported near Kargil in Ladakh on Thursday afternoon, according to India's National Center for Seismology.

An earthquake of magnitude 4.4 was reported near Changlang in Arunachal Pradesh on Thursday afternoon, according to India's National Center for Seismology.

India's first plasma bank was inaugurated in Delhi this afternoon by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal as he appealed to all those who can donate plasma to come forward and help others.

World UFO Day 2020: The day is marked every year on July 2. UFOs grabbed attention after the Roswell incident in New Mexico sometime in July 1947. A 'flying object' had reportedly crashed at a ranch in Roswell, the owner had claimed and said remnants were also found. The US military had later said that it was just a weather balloon.

Senior BJP leader Uma Bharti today appeared in person before a special court in Lucknow which is conducting the trial in the 1992 Babri mosque demolition case.

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has been planning to move out of Delhi to Lucknow as the base camp for her political plans to resurrect the Congress in Uttar Pradesh. The notice yesterday to vacate her government bungalow has accelerated her plans, say sources.

Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has said India's surprise move to ban 59 Chinese apps days after a violent face-off between Indian and Chinese soldiers in eastern Ladakh was a "digital strike". "We banned Chinese apps to protect data of countrymen; it was a digital strike," Mr Prasad said at a BJP rally in West Bengal today, news agency Press Trust of India reported.