India registered 12,514 new Covid-19 cases and 251 deaths in the last 24 hours, the Union Health Ministry said on Monday. ....

The schools in Kerala are set to open from Monday after a gap of 20 months. The state education department will conduct 'Pravesanolsavam' celebrations to welcome the children back to schools in a grand manner but apprehensions are high as the Covid cases have not declined. ....

President Ram Nath Kovind and Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu on Sunday paid homage to Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel on his birth anniversary. ....

The Regional centre of the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has predicted heavy and intense rain in the southern districts of Tamil Nadu till Diwali on November 4. ....

In the last 24 hours, India registered 12,830 new Covid-19 cases and 446 deaths, the Union Health Ministry said on Sunday. ....

Wide-ranging India-France Strategic Partnership and climate finance were among the issues Prime Minister Narendra Modi discussed during a bilateral meeting with President of France, Emmanuel Macron at Rome, Italy, on Saturday. ....

Prime Minister Narendra Modi discussed global efforts to combat climate change and the forthcoming COP26 at a bilateral meeting with his Singaporean counterpart Lee Hsien Loong on the sidelines of the G20 Leaders' Summit at Rome on Saturday. ....

Following the death of at least eight persons after they consumed spurious liquor in Bihar's Muzaffarpur district, the Special Branch arrested three persons on Saturday, officials said. ....

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on Saturday announced the "birth date" of Tamil Nadu would be marked on July 18, instead of November 1 as existing. ....

A high-intensity bomb was detonated early on Saturday near an Assam Police border outpost in Hailakandi district along the border with Mizoram, triggering a fresh tension between the two states, officials said. ....

Pope Francis received Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a private audience at the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican on Saturday, the first such meeting between an Indian Prime Minister and the head of the in more than two decades. ....

Reacting to the DDMA's recent order to not allow Chhath Puja celebrations on the banks of the Yamuna river, BJP MP Manoj Tiwari on Saturday accused Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal of politicising the issue and doing injustice to the Purvanchali community residing in the national capital. ....

On the first day of his visit to Rome ahead of the G20 Summit, Prime Minister Narendra Modi met the Indian diaspora in the Italian capital city. ....

After Delhi Police started removing the barricades from the Ghazipur border, farmers protesting at the site for nearly a year against the three contentious farm laws have expressed apprehension that they also might be removed. The Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) has issued a statement appealing to the farmers to reach the site as soon as possible to strengthen the agitation. ....

Voting is taking place on Saturday for the Dhariyavad and Vallabhnagar Assembly seats in Rajasthan on Saturday amid strict Covid-19 protocols and security, said Chief Electoral Officer Praveen Gupta. ....

Ahead of Assembly elections in five states, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has started chanting Lord Ram's name to garner votes. ....

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Friday said that 7,722 people turned Covid positive after 71,681 samples were tested in the past 24 hours, while the test positivity rate stood at 10.77 per cent. ....

Teams of health officials from Lucknow and Delhi, have procured blood and urine samples of 175 Air Force personnel. ....

Cherian Phillip on Friday after two decades of being a fellow traveller with the CPI-M, announced that he is returning to his 'ancestral' home -- the Congress party. ....

BJP MP Varun Gandhi has once again made it clear that he will not 'tolerate any injustice' done to farmers. ....