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Two years ahead of the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav today coined a new poll slogan "22 mein bicycle" (bicycle in 2022) and circulated it among his party leaders and workers.

Donor countries on Sunday pledged to muster "major resources" to help Lebanon deal with the aftermath of the deadly Beirut port blast, saying assistance will be "directly delivered to the Lebanese population".

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi today asked people to protest the new Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) 2020 draft, saying it was "dangerous" and if notified, the long term consequences will be "catastrophic".

India has scaled the peak of COVID-19 testing with more than seven lakh tests in a single day, the country has conducted nearly 500 tests per minute in the last 24 hours, a senior health ministry official said.

US President Donald Trump on Sunday called for Lebanon to conduct a "full and transparent investigation" into the huge explosion that hit Beirut, and expressed his support for protests demanding reform in the country.

Noting the Andaman and Nicobar Islands are strategically located for trade, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Sunday the region is going to be developed as a "maritime and startup hub" as he highlighted his government's development initiatives for it.

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Khamenei has opened an official Twitter account in Hindi.

A saree designed by West Bengal's BJP Mahila Morcha chief Agnimitra Paul, a noted fashion designer, featuring the party's election symbol lotus, has created a flutter after she asked women party workers to buy it.

Akhilesh Kumar Sharma, the co-pilot of the Air India Express plane that crashed in Kerala's Kozhikode two days ago, was cremated in Mathura on Sunday.

The Lebanese army said Sunday that hopes have dwindled of finding survivors at the blast site in Beirut following days of search and rescue operations supported by international experts.

The Enforcement Directorate has summoned actor Rhea Chakraborty and two of her family members - brother Showik Chakraborty and father Inderjit - questioning in connection with the Sushant Singh Rajput case

India has dismissed the controversy over the birthplace of Gautam Buddha, saying External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar's remarks on him were about "our shared Buddhist heritage" and there's "no doubt" that the founder of Buddhism was born in Nepal's Lumbini.

The United States has registered over five million cases in the coronavirus pandemic, Johns Hopkins University's real-time tally showed Sunday, as well as over 162,000 deaths as the country struggles to control the disease.

A pair of gold-plated spectacles believed to have been worn by Mahatma Gandhi and presented as a gift in the 1900s have emerged on the UK auction circuit, estimated to fetch between 10,000 pounds and 15,000 pounds.

All the officers of the Army, Navy, Air Force and Delhi Police participating in the Independence Day ceremony at Delhi's Red Fort will have to severely restrict their activities in view of the coronavirus pandemic, sources said today. They are only allowed to go to the rehearsals and return home. Their domestic helps, cooks and drivers will have to be in quarantine, sources said.