In yet another blow to China, navies from India and Maldives participated in the fourth edition of Ekatha exercise, with Male making a statement that it is India and not China which will serve as the net security provider of Maldives. A pivotal nation in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR), Maldives is strategically located close to key international shipping lanes. ....

Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra will now be travelling to Lucknow on July 16 to take stock of the situation on poll preparation. ....

Amid talks of new floor leader in the Lok Sabha, Congress parliamentary strategy group will meet on Wednesday (July 14) to discuss key issues to be raised in the upcoming monsoon session of Parliament. ....

Russia's Sputnik vaccine is effective against all the new variants of the COVID-19, the Gamaleya institute has said. It is developing the vaccine against Covid-19, along with Russia’s sovereign wealth fund, Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF). ....

India reported 31,443 new Covid-19 cases in last 24 hours. The number new cases is lowest in 118 days. With 2,020 fatalities in last 24 hours, India's death toll reached 4,10,784, said the Union health and family welfare ministry data on Tuesday.This is the 35th consecutive day when India reported less than one lakh new coronavirus cases. ....

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday directed activist Saket Gokhale to pull down his "defamatory" tweets alleging former United Nations Assistant Secretary General Lakshmi Puri, wife of Union minister Hardeep Singh Suri, had purchased certain property in Switzerland disproportionate to her income. ....

India reported 31,443 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, which is the lowest in the past 118 days and 2,020 deaths, said the Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry on Tuesday. ....

Samajwadi Party MP, Mohd Azam Khan was finally discharged from the Medanta hospital on Tuesday, more than two months after he was admitted to the hospital after testing Covid positive. ....

After UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath unveiled the draft population control bill, Congress leader Salman Khurshid said the state should tell how many "legitimate or illegitimate" children ministers have. ....

BJP leaders, who were taken hostage with family members by protesting farmers in a house in a Punjab town, were rescued early Monday by police after an over 12-hour ordeal and with the intervention of the high court. ....

Trinamool Congress Mongalkote block president Ashim Das was killed at Lakuria in Mongalkote area in West Bengal's East Burdwan district late on Monday night. ....

The central government on Monday deployed the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) as heavy rain in Himachal Pradesh led to flashfloods in Kangra district, where 10 locals were reported missing and one has died. ....

The Delhi Congress on Monday said it will approach the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) or the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) if the central government does not order a probe against the Arvind Kejriwal-led AAP government in the national capital into the purchase of 1,000 DTC buses. ....

In a relief to fugitive Indian businessman Mehul Choksi, who is wanted in India in the Rs 13,500 crore Punjab National Bank (PNB) fraud case, the Dominica High Court on Monday granted him bail on medical grounds. ....

The National Education Policy-2020 will be implemented from the current academic year in the institutions of the department of higher education, Deputy Chief Minister C.N. Ashwatha Narayana, who also holds the higher education portfolio, stated on Monday. ....

Parkinson's disease (PD) is a neuro-degenerative disorder and over 10 million people worldwide are affected by this with no drug available for its treatment. However, the University of Delhi has now identified a special protein, which makes it possible to treat this disease. McLean Hospital, Boston is a partner of the University of Delhi in this research. ....

Andhra Pradesh government on Monday relaxed coronavirus curfew restrictions uniformly across all the 13 districts from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. ....

Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra will visit Lucknow on Wednesday (July 14) to kickstart her 'Mission UP' and will take stock of the poll preparations as the state will vote early next year. ....

Amid the Covid-19 restrictions Rath Yatra 2021 began on Monday at the famous Lord Jagannath temple in Puri, Odisha. Lord Jagannath and his siblings were placed in their chariots after performing 'pahandi' rituals. ....

Union Minister Smriti Irani, on Monday, visited the Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGIMS) to see ailing former Chief Minister Kalyan Singh. ....