
India witnessed a slight dip in new Covid cases yet again as in the last 24 hours 27,254 fresh cases were registered, the Ministry of Health and Family Affairs said on Monday....

Key Karnataka Congress leaders on Monday set out for the Vidhana Soudha (the legislative assembly) on bullock carts to register the party's protest against the ruling BJP government's failure to arrest price hike of fuel, LPG cylinder and daily commodities. The Congress leaders...

Authorities in China's Fujian province has classified Fengting town as a Covid-19 high-risk area after a latest resurgence of new confirmed cases. ...

After viral fever, cases of dengue are on rise in Bihar capital Patna....

Four men have been arrested after a shocking video of a woman being stripped off, and then sexually abused and assaulted by a group of five in Karnataka's Yadgir district went viral, police said on Monday....

Nilgiris has become the first district in Tamil Nadu to have administered at least one dose of vaccine to all its population. This was announced by the state health department after the mega vaccination drive. ...

The Telangana government will launch a special drive to administer Covid-19 vaccines to 3 lakh people daily in an effort to cover 1.38 crore people who have still not taken a single dose. ...

Massive rainfall was recorded in several parts of Odisha as the depression over northwest Bay of Bengal and adjoining Odisha coast moved west-north-westwards to turn into Deep Depression in the early hours on Monday. Odisha, north Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh are likely to get heavy rainfall during the next 48 hours, the IMD said. ...

As the Joe Biden administration stepped up efforts to get more people vaccinated, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in three new studies emphasised the importance of Covid shots in preventing death rates, even amid concerns on waning immunity in some populations. ...

Three days after National Conference leader and former Jammu MLC Tarlochan Singh Wazir was found dead in a West Delhi flat, police on Sunday was trying to ascertain the veracity of a sensational hand-written note posted on a social media account of Harmeet Singh, one of the suspects in Wazir murder....