
In a shocking incident, five contract teacher of Sishu Siksha Kendra, a primary school in West Bengal, tried to commit suicide in protest against their transfer to places far off from their homes, in front of the Bikash Bhavan, which houses the state's education department, here on Tuesday....

After a lull in daily testing, Kerala again saw daily Covid case numbers rise high, with 24,296 people testing Covid positive after 1,34,706 samples were tested. ...

A local court in Manipur has remanded three youths to police custody till Friday for attempting to smuggle Covid-19 vaccines and other medicines to neighbouring Myanmar, police said on Tuesday....

Bharatiya Janata Party chief J P Nadda on Tuesday asked the Congress national leadership to clarify their stand on whether they support the remarks on Kashmir and Pakistan made by party leaders in Punjab. Nadda said that the silence of the Congress leadership will be seen as being implicit to such objectionable remarks...

The first Covid-19 case was reported in Haryana on March 17, 2020, in Gurugram district, state Health Minister Anil Vij informed the Assembly on Tuesday. ...
Taking strong exception to the patently anti-national and pro-Pak comments of two of Navjot Singh Sidhu's aides, a group of Punjab Congress ministers and MLA on Tuesday called for strong action under the law against Malwinder Mali and Pyare Lal Garg. ...

The Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO), India's National Regulatory Authority, has approved Gennova Biopharmaceuticals Limited's work on the country's first mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccine for its clinical data of the phase-1 study. ...

In an unprecedented development in the state political history, the Maharashtra Police on Tuesday afternoon arrested Union Minister Narayan Rane for his 'slap slur' remark against Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, as an aggressive Shiv Sena protested vociferously all over the state....

The Tamil Nadu government on Tuesday announced that it will build a memorial to former Chief Minister and DMK President, late M. Karunanidhi, at Marina beach in Chennai at an outlay of Rs 39 crore. ...

Amid rift in Chhattisgarh Congress, former Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday met Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel and Health Minister T.S. Singh Deo, but no discussion took place on change of leadership in the state....