World's highest post office Hikkim located in Himachal Pradesh's Spiti Valley at the height of 15,000 feet above sea level and currently marooned in a thick blanket of snow has been hit by the coronavirus, officials said on Tuesday. ....

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy will travel to Delhi on Tuesday and is expected to meet Union Home Minister Amit Shah. ....

The mercury's free fall continued across Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh on Tuesday as Drass town recorded minus 18.6 amid an ongoing cold wave in the two union territories. ....

Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday paid tribute to Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel on his death anniversary. ....

In a bid to improve the city's position in the cleanliness list in the Swachh Survekshan-2021 and make the city polythene free, the Municipal Corporation Gurugram (MCG) has set up the first 'Cloth Bag Bank' here. ....

Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Monday replaced Moirangthem Okendro as the party's Manipur state President with Govindas Konthoujam, following the party's poor performance in various matters including the recent assembly bypolls, a party statement said. ....

BJP national General Secretary and Rajasthan in-charge Arun Singh on Monday said that 99 per cent of the country's farmers stand with the Narendra Modi-led Central government and those protesting in the borders of Delhi are "under the influence of Communists, Congressmen and separatists". ....

From vaccinating 100-200 people during each session per day, to monitoring them for 30 minutes for any adverse event, using Covid Vaccine Intelligence Network to track beneficiaries, the Central government has released a set of detailed guidelines for the mass vaccination drive, which will commence once the vaccines get emergency use approval form the drug regulator. ....

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday alleged that the farm laws are not only "anti-farmer" but also "anti-people" and have been brought in "to benefit some capitalists". ....

External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar has told the Supreme Court that under the Constitution or the election law, there is no provision, which prescribes the mandatory requirement of conducting by-elections to Rajya Sabha seats, which fell vacant on separate dates, through a single poll. ....

Dubbing Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal as a "coward" who had run scared and apologised when cornered in a defamation case by SAD's Bikram Majithia, Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Monday said Kejriwal's desperate attempts to hide his government's "utter failure" to protect the farmers' interests will not save him from their wrath, nor will they safeguard his party from being decimated in the next Punjab Assembly election. ....

Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar said on Monday that the Coronavirus crisis is now "on its way out" and "soon" vaccines would be available in India too. He was speaking at the International Coronavirus Short Film Festival. ....

Jailed RJD supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav may have to undergo dialysis as both his kidneys are functioning at only 25 per cent. ....

As the ongoing farmers' protest continued for the 19th day on Monday, a new group of 10 farmers' unions from seven states on Monday extended their support to the Central government over its decision to undertake the necessary amendments in the three contentious farm laws. ....

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday attacked the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) after a report surfaced that Facebook did not act on hate content. ....

Amid the ongoing farmer agitation, the RJD has claimed that BJP leaders have declared farmers as "terrorists" and now they are involving in deceiving the farmers by organising 'Chaupals' or farmer meetings in Bihar. ....

A study that claimed the Indian subcontinent might be the place where the earliest human-to-human novel coronavirus transmission occurred was withdrawn from the preprint platform of the medical journal The Lancet, Global Times reported recently. ....

Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar has said he is confident of a consensus between the government and protesting farmers on the issue of the new agricultural laws and that the farmer protest movement would end soon. ....

Himachal Pradesh Governor Bandaru Dattatreya had a narrow escape when a car in which he was travelling in met with an accident near Hyderabad on Monday. Dattatreya, his personal aide and driver escaped unhurt. ....

Personal security guard of a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leader, who was shot at by militants on the outskirts of Jammu and Kashmir's Srinagar district on Monday, succumbed to critical injuries in the hospital. ....