India on Wednesday recorded 3,998 deaths due to Covid in just 24 hours after it logged 374 deaths. ....

India on Tuesday reported its first bird flu death as an 11-year-old boy, who was undergoing treatment at AIIMS for it, succumbed to the disease. ....

Noted actor and BJP leader Khushbu Sundar has complained to the Tamil Nadu Director General of Police Sylendra Babu as her official Twitter account was hacked. ....

Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Tuesday said it is not correct to say that the third Covid wave will affect children as in the two waves till now children were relatively less infected. ....

Following a massive political furore over the Adani Group's plans to relocate the headquarters of its recently acquired crown jewel -- the high-profile Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport (CSMIA) -- from Mumbai to Ahmedabad, the company late on Tuesday denied any such move. ....

Even as the farmers continue their protest at the borders of Delhi against the three Central farm laws, the government has reiterated its stand that it is "always open to discussion with farmers' unions and will remain open to discussion with the agitating farmers to resolve the issue". ....

Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday slammed the opposition for questioning the government on the alleged Pegasus phone hack controversy and for disrupting the Parliament. ....

Assam is readying a ‘team’ of youth who would visit the lower parts of the state to create ‘awareness’ on measures to control population and supply contraceptives, after chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Monday termed population explosion as the “root cause of economic disparities and poverty among minority Muslims” in the state. ....

Hitting out at the opposition parties, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said political rivals are spreading lies about Covid-19 and shortage of vaccine. The Prime Minister Modi asked BJP MPs to counter lies spread by the opposition parties. ....

After the opposition's heavy sloganeering seeking the suspension of Business Hour to discuss the snooping issue, the Rajya Sabha was adjourned again till 1 p.m. ....

After it emerged that former party President Rahul Gandhi, among others, was one of the potential targets of snooping using the Pegasus spyware developed by Israel's NSO Group, the Congress has planned nationwide agitation and has decided to raise the issue in Parliament. ....

More than a dozen persons have been booked and two arrested so far, for stripping and beating a boy in the market place after he allegedly stole some vegetables. ....

India on Tuesday recorded 30,093 new Covid-19 cases and 374 deaths in the last 24 hours, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said. ....

Black fungus patients in Agra, who had recovered initially, are now being diagnosed with the infection again. ....

Amid the fierce battle between the government armed forces and Taliban, Afghanistan Army Chief will visit India for two days next week to interact with top security officials, including the Indian Army Chief General M.M. Naravane. ....

In the wake of the BJP high command's decision to change the leadership in Karnataka, the team identifying with the Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa and legislators from his camp have launched an all out campaign supporting him. ....

AIADMK's Joint Coordinator and former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K. Palaniswami on Monday claimed that the state's people feel cheated by the ruling DMK over the NEET issue. ....

Former Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh on Monday said that his property, seized by the Enforcement Directorate (ED), is worth over ₹4.20 crore and not over ₹300 crore, as claimed in a few media reports. He said that the property was bought by his son Salil Deshmukh back in 2006. ....

In a horrific incident, a Mumbai lawyer was surrounded and attacked by over a dozen assailants with swords, iron rods, and knives on a road in full public view, officials said on Monday. ....

UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has issued special guidelines for the upcoming Bakrid festival, in view of the prevailing Covid situation. ....