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In its second term, the Yogi Adityanath government will start preparing to make every village of Uttar Pradesh completely digitally enabled.

Over five narco tests has been conducted at the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) here since the facility was started in August last year, officials said on Sunday. The FSL started the narco analysis facility, the first in north India, in collaboration with Ambedkar Hospital here, they said. FSL Director Deepa Verma said efforts were being made for the past two years to start the facility. However, the first session was conducted on August 9, 2021, she said. Narco analysis involves injecting a drug which induces a hypnotic or sedated state in which the person's imagination is neutralised and he or she is expected to divulge true information.

Pakistan's Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid on Sunday warned the opposition leaders not to disrupt the OIC meeting here as he termed it a matter of national security, amid opposition threat to block the high-profile conference. "I declare here that no one can dare to create any sort of hurdle in the holding of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) conference because it is an issue of security of Pakistan,” Rashid said at a press conference.

The BJP will meet the Goa governor on Monday and stake a claim to form the next government, state unit resident Sadanand Shet Tanavade said on Sunday. The much-awaited BJP legislature party meeting will also be held on Monday to select the leader of the House, who will be the next chief minister.

Pope Francis has denounced Russia's “repugnant war” against Ukraine as “cruel and sacrilegious inhumanity.” In some of his strongest words yet since Russia's invasion on February 24, Francis on Sunday told thousands of people in St.Peter's Square that every day brings more atrocities in what is a “senseless massacre.” “There is no justification for this,'' Francis said, in an apparent reference to Russia, which sought to justify its invasion as vital for its own defense. But Francis again stopped short of naming Russia as the aggressor.

The Gurugram Police Crime Branch unit has arrested a man with country-made pistols from Panchgaon intersection on the Delhi-Jaipur Expressway.

Amid the Russia-Ukraine war, a wheat crisis looms in the world, said Shashi Tharoor, Congress MP and former UN official, citing FAO report that around 30 percent of crops won't be sown.

Massive explosion was heard in Sialkot Cantt area in Pakistan. 

Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras and the US-based Northwestern University have developed deep learning algorithms that can greatly enhance the depth perception and 3D effects in videos shot using smartphone cameras.

Two youths from Kerala's Malappuram district, who were riding to Goa to watch the finals of the Indian Super League (ISL) died in a road accident on early Sunday morning.

 India on Sunday recorded 1,761 fresh coronavirus infections, the lowest in around 688 days, that took its tally to 4,30,07,841, while the active cases declined further to 26,240, according to Union health ministry data.

A 39-year-old man was arrested for allegedly possessing deer meat in dried condition near the Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve, officials said.

Nearly two dozen passengers were injured after a bus plunged into a 12-feet-deep ditch near the Jamalnagar Bhains village in Agra, police said.

Crime Branch arrested a person from Uttar Pradesh's Lucknow for allegedly handling hawala money of DCP Saurabh Tripathi, an accused in the Angadiya extortion case: Mumbai Police

The post Covid resurgence of tourism in Goa, one of the best known beach destinations in India, has brought a sigh of relief to the state's tourism industry stakeholders.

Two people have been arrested in connection with issuing death threats to the Special Bench judges of the Karnataka High Court who dismissed the petitions seeking permission to wear hijab inside the classrooms.

Within five days, caretaker Chief Minister N. Biren Singh and another contender for the top post Thongam Biswajit Singh on Saturday rushed to Delhi after the BJP central leaders called them to discuss the name of next Manipur Chief Minister and formation of government.

Five persons, including the managing director of a pharmaceutical company in Hyderabad, have been arrested by officers of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), Bengaluru Zonal Unit, for unauthorisedly diverting Tramadol to Pakistan.

One of India's top virologists, T. Jacob John, said on Saturday that completing a full Covid immunisation schedule of two primary doses followed by a booster dose is absolutely crucial.

Accelerated funding activity is expected to create over 100 unicorns in India during 2022. According to HDFC Securities, funding activities have created 42 unicorns in 2021.

The Director General (DG) of Border Security Force (BSF), Pankaj Kumar, said on Saturday that BSF troops are competent enough to tackle any nefarious designs by anti-national elements.

An FIR has been registered against Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot's son Vaibhav Gehlot, who's also the President of Rajasthan Cricket Association (RCA), in Maharashtra's Nashik district in connection with an alleged cheating case.