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New Delhi: Delhi's Air Quality Index (AQI) again inched closer to the 'very poor' category as it slipped to 293 at 9 a.m. Friday morning, System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting And Research's (SAFAR) data said. The level of PM 2.5…

San Francisco:  Apple has shut one of its retail stores in Texas in the US after at least four of its staff members were found Covid-19 positive, the media reported. According to NBC News, the Apple store in Southlake, Texas, was closed…

United Nations: Humanitarian partners reached 8 million Afghans with food assistance, 150,000 people with relief items and 130,000 children with community-based education activities in the three-month period of September through November,…

Hyderabad:  Polling was underway amid tight security on Friday for biennial elections to six seats of Telangana Legislative Council from local authority constituencies. Local body representatives including corporators, councilors, ZPTC…

Srinagar: Cold wave intensified in Kashmir and Ladakh on Friday with the Drass town literally freezing at minus 16.9 degrees Celsius. An official of the Meteorological Department (MeT) said the minimum temperature remained below the…

Mumbai:  Actress Pooja Hegde, who is gearing up for the release of her upcoming pan-India film 'Radhe Shyam', says the song 'Soch liya' from the movie introduces the chemistry her character Prerana shares with Prabhas's. The film will be…

New Delhi:  India reported 8,503 fresh Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, while the fatalities rose to 624, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said on Friday. The death toll now stands at 4,74,735. The recovery of 7,678 patients…

Brisbane: The abnormally high number of times England's Ben Stokes overstepped the crease while bowling on the second day of the Ashes Test created quite a controversy, but the tourists' bowling coach, Jon Lewis, blamed the on-field umpires…

New Delhi:  In the Rajya Sabha on Friday, Congress MP Amee Yajnik will bring a resolution to demand a joint parliamentary committee (JPC) for curbing pollution while BJP MPs, Rakesh Sinha and Vijaypal Singh Tomar will seek a law to curb…

London: An additional 249 people have tested positive for the Omicron Covid-19 variant in the UK, which increased the total number of cases with this strain to 817, health authorities confirmed. Thursday's figure is nearly double of what…