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Only 5,000 tourists will be allowed each day at the Taj Mahal. Agra: The Taj Mahal in Agra reopened this morning with strict security guidelines against coronavirus after being closed to tourists for more than six months. Agra Fort also reopened today. Both world heritage sites have been closed since …

Actress Kareena Kapoor Khan celebrated her birthday with her close family by her side. Images and video clips show her sister Karisma Kapoor, her parents, Babita and Randhir Japoor, and her husband Saif Ali Khan present. One of the main attractions was, of course, his birthday cake. One of the …

Taj Mahal, the 17th-century architectural marvel, closed since March 17 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, opened to the public on Monday. About 160 tickets were booked online, but the first to enter was a tourist from Taiwan who stayed in India, authorities said. A maximum of 5,000 visitors in two …

Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan said that more than four vaccines against the coronavirus disease (Covid-19), which has claimed the lives of nearly 87,000 people in India, are in advanced stages of preclinical trial in the country. Harsh Vardhan said in Parliament on Sunday that the government is providing …

Written by Ritu Sarin | New Delhi | Updated: September 21, 2020 8:35:13 am FinCEN’s files contain a 20-page “intelligence assessment” on the mirror network and list 54 shell companies that they say moved billions of dollars annually from Russia through European stock markets to other jurisdictions starting in 2011. …

Written by Ritu Sarin | New Delhi | Updated: September 21, 2020 7:27:22 am From the steel industry to the sponsor of IPL, from diamond traders to those under ED, CBI scanner, various Indian individuals and entities have been referred in secret reports by banks to the US Treasury Financial …

A woman suspected of mailing an envelope containing ricin poison, which was addressed to the White House, was arrested at the New York-Canada border, three law enforcement officers told The Associated Press on Sunday. The letter had been intercepted earlier this week before it reached the White House. The woman …

Written by Ritu Sarin, Shyamlal Yadav, Jay Mazoomdaar, Sandeep Singh, Khushboo Narayan | Mumbai, New Delhi | Updated: September 21, 2020 7:26:51 am In most cases, national branches of Indian banks have been used to receive or remit funds; in some cases, bank accounts with foreign branches of Indian banks …

At an altitude of almost 15,000 feet, the residents of the village of Chushul traverse the desolate and unforgiving territory of the Indian state of Ladakh. With heavy and crammed duffel bags, sacks of rice, cans of heavy fuel and bamboo poles tied behind their backs, they trudge towards the …

The annual flu season has started in Delhi, northwestern India, and the northern plains. Several in the HT newsroom fell ill with the flu last week, not the coronavirus disease (Covid-19; they tested negative), but the seasonal flu that makes its presence felt at this time of year. Some of …