The bulk of these infections have happened since January 26, when WHO listed 2,014 infections. The latest count is five times as many - 9,776 until 8 am on January 31, as per a dashboard from Johns Hopkins University.

How wheat crops are affected by the disease

The original draft of the Bill had included the contraceptive failure clause only for married women, which, the Health Ministry has now felt, would have left unmarried women, on whom social pressures to abort are more acute, at the mercy of quacks.

Union Budget 2020: The most crucial thing for boosting growth is not whether the fiscal deficit target is flouted or not, rather the level of revenue deficit and the govt’s intention towards reducing it to 0% (of GDP) in the next few years.

Budget 2020-21 Highlights, Important Points Explained Live Updates: Here's an explanation and analysis of the Budget presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in Parliament today.

Currently, in the (unlikely) event of a bank going bust in India, a depositor has claim to a maximum of Rs 1 lakh per account as insurance cover — even if the deposit in their account far exceeds Rs 1 lakh.

LIC IPO: On an average, LIC invests Rs 55,000 crore to Rs 65,000 crore in stock markets every year and emerges as the largest investor in Indian stocks.

Boosting consumption by leaving people with higher disposable incomes is the key strategy

From remains of ancient civilisations to relics of royal opulence, these archaeological sites offer a gateway to our magnificent past. Here’s what makes these sites special.

The Kashmiri nationalist poet Dinanath Nadim was at the centre of Kashmir's progressive movement, especially in the 1930s, 40s and 50s. Nadim was born in 1916, and passed away in 1988. Nadim wrote in Kashmiri, Hindi and Urdu, and inspired a powerful tradition…

The benchmark Sensex fell 1092 points intra-day and closed 988 points down at 39,735.53. The broader Nifty at the National Stock Exchange fell 2.5 per cent to close at 11,661.

With the economy in deep crisis, what were the options before Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in the Union Budget for 2020-21? With limited resources at her disposal, she has tinkered with several aspects of the economy. But will this strategy work in…

The baby elephant was stuck in a well in Gumla district. Jharkhand forest officials have been receiving praise since the video of the rescue operation went online.

Article 280 of the Constitution requires that a Finance Commission be constituted to recommend the distribution of the net proceeds of taxes between the Centre and states, and among the states.

The Donald Trump government started imposing travel bans from 2017. The number of countries facing restrictions now extends to 13.

Last week, Dawn quoted a senior aide to Prime Minister Imran Khan as saying: “We believe that right now, it is in the interest of our loved ones in China [to stay there]. It is in the larger interest of the region, world, country that we don’t evacuate them…

Decades after the cheetah went extinct in India, SC has cleared a proposal for importing a few from Africa. It throws the spotlight on the cheetahs’ future, impact on indigenous species, and translocation of lions.

The PM, who often tweets in regional languages, wrote a number of these tweets in the Bodo language. The language is one of the key thrust areas in the Bodo Accord.

Commuters are complaining about technical glitches in the system. They say they end up paying the toll fee twice, have to spend more time in the queues and wonder if their bank accounts linked with FASTags will be safe.

India has over 7 lakh wetlands and rules for their protection; yet not one of the wetlands has been notified under domestic laws, according to environmentalist Anand Arya, a petitioner in a Supreme Court case on wetlands.

There have been 305 deaths while 348 of the patients have recovered.