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A powerful earthquake measuring 7.5 on the Richter scale hit the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, killing four people and injuring four others, the National Civil Protection Coordination (CNPC) said on Wednesday. ....

The Congress has hit back at BJP national president J.P. Nadda asking him to look at their "conduct" as opposition party during the UPA rule. Nadda had called Rahul Gandhi a "dynast" and said opposition is not only about one dynasty. ....

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday requested the Central government to scrap the order which requires every Covid-19 patient to visit the government facility for a clinical assessment, adding that it is "chaotic". ....

Moderate to mild four separate quakes with magnitude ranging from 2.8 to 4.5 on the Richter scale hit several parts of Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura, Assam and adjoining areas of northeast region bordering Myanmar on Thursday, officials said. ....

The number of people in the US who have tested positive for the novel coronavirus is likely to be 10 times as higher than the over 2.4 million confirmed cases currently reported, the chief of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said. ....

Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray has appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to direct various national level apex bodies to endorse the state government's decision to cancel various professional examinations in the state in view of the Covid-19 pandemic. ....

If all goes well, the shopping malls in Gurugram could reopen in the next few days as the district authorities are mulling the issue, even as Deputy Commissioner Amit Khatri on Friday clarified there was no plan to reimpose a lockdown in the city. ....

India took just six days to jump from 4 lakh to 5 lakh cases as it recorded yet another worst spike of 18,552 cases on Saturday. The steady rise over the past week saw the nation breach its daily count everyday, with the biggest contributors being Maharashtra and New Delhi, where a mammoth survey will begin on the day to monitor the spread of the pandemic. ....

Nearly 7.97 lakh students in the Uttar Pradesh - known as the Hindi heartland - have failed in Hindi in the UP Secondary Board examinations for class 10 and 12, the results of which were announced on Saturday. ....

In a shocking incident, eight police personnel, including a circle officer, were shot dead and six policemen seriously injured when a local criminal, Vikas Dubey, and his gang sprayed them with bullets in Vikru village under Chaubeypur police circle in Kanpur in the wee hours of Friday.....