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During the bubonic plague in 1897, Hyderabad state put medical students to work, cancelled examinations

Anurag Kashyap’s brother and director of ‘Dabangg’ has now called out Salman Khan and his family for sabotaging his career in a hard-hitting post.

Staging the Twenty20 World Cup in Australia this year in the midst of a global coronavirus pandemic is "unrealistic", Cricket Australia chairman Earl Eddings admitted on Tuesday. The tournament is scheduled to take place from Oct 18-Nov 15. But with many global borders still shut due to virus-related travel restrictions, Eddings conceded that was looking increasingly unlikely.

At least 20 Indian Army personnel and 43 Chinese troops were killed in Galwan Valley in eastern Ladakh on Monday night during a violent military faceoff along the LAC. Stay with TOI for live updates

An Indian Army officer and two soldiers were killed in Galwan Valley in eastern Ladakh on Monday night during a violent face off with the Chinese troops, the Army said. Stay here for real-time updates-

An Indian Army officer and two soldiers were killed in Galwan Valley in eastern Ladakh on Monday night during a violent face off with the Chinese troops, the Army said. Stay here for real-time updates-

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After a brief reprieve, there’s bad news for lovers of pani puri -- the tangy delight, also known as golgappa, batasha or phuchka in various parts of the country -- in the city. Fearing that the crowding and lack of social distancing at 'golgappa' carts might lead to spike in Covid-19 cases, the district administration has banned its sale from Tuesday.

Barely 11 days after TOI exposed a racket in which 25 persons with the name of Anamika Shukla were found working in various KGBVs, swindling Rs 1 crore as salary in 13 months, the UP Special Task Force (STF) cracked the case and nabbed the kingpin along with his two associates.

US President Donald Trump will sign an executive order on Tuesday that will seek to improve how police officers treat African Americans and others by improving credentialing, training and mental health resources, administration officials said.

The new outbreak has jolted China, which had appeared to have largely stifled the virus after it emerged late last year from Wuhan. This failure in the capital’s defenses appeared to rile Xi’s subordinates. Two local officials and the general manager of the Xinfadi market were dismissed on Sunday for what the city leadership said was a failure to move quickly enough.

More than 57 lakh unskilled workers were engaged in various projects under MNREGS in Uttar Pradesh on Monday, making the state the largest contributor to employment generation in the country under the flagship programme.

The antigen test — developed by private biotechnology firm SD Biosensor — has also been validated by AIIMS, New Delhi, apart from ICMR and can detect presence of SARS CoV 2 in swab collected from the nose alone. Maximum duration for interpreting a positive or negative test is 30 minutes through the antigen based kit.

India needs to ramp up Covid-19 testing by roughly 10 times — at least one million samples daily — to fight the Covid-19 pandemic. This was stated on Monday by Rakesh Mishra, the director of the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), during a video conference with Telangana governor. India tested 1.15 lakh-1.5 lakh people daily between June 10 and 14.

In Anand Sagar’s Ramayan, the scene when Shabri meets Lord Ram has been depicted beautifully. However, there is a back story about performing this sequence with Lord Ram, Gurmeet falling ill and being hospitalized.

“Many people are speculating whether another lockdown in Delhi is being planned. There are no such plans,” the chief minister tweeted. This is in line with his earlier observation that we have to learn to live with Covid-19 and economic activity needs to be back on track.

Days after Nepal cleared a constitutional amendment to change the map on its coat of arms to include Indian territory, India indicated that it would offer no further talks and that it will be for Kathmandu to create conditions that can support a discussion -- a position that rules out a thaw given passage of the contentious legislation.