
Veteran CPI-M politburo member S. Ramachandran Pillai after turning Covid positive is undergoing treatment at the Medical College hospital here, said party sources....

The overall global Covid-19 caseload has topped 171 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 3.55 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University....
All first-year students in undergraduate and postgraduate classes in the Uttar Pradesh universities will be promoted to the second year. ...

Tamil Nadu, which had announced the suspension of vaccination drive from Wednesday, is to continue inoculating people after it received 4.95 lakh vaccines from the central government on Tuesday night....
As many as 22 former students of Kendriya Vidyalaya located on the Central Leather Research Institute (CLRI) campus in Chennai have accused their former Hindi teacher of sexual abuse over a period of 18 years. ...

A day after reporting lowest cases since April 8, India witnessed a slight increase in Covid numbers with 1,32,788 new infections reported in 24 hours and 3,207 more people succumbed to the pandemic, the Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry said on Wednesday....
The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Tuesday validated the Sinovac-CoronaVac Covid-19 vaccine for emergency use, giving countries, procuring agencies and communities the assurance that it meets international standards for safety, efficacy and manufacturing. ...

Noting that Covid-19 vaccination drive is ramping up, Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) Director General Balram Bhargava on Tuesday said they hope to vaccinate the "whole country" by end of this year. ...

The Delhi Police's Cyber Crime Branch on Tuesday said that it is working to get blocked the fake login page of ICICI Bank which was trying to get details of the customers, and also warned people not to share information without verification....

Exercising his powers, President Ram Nath Kovind has renominated journalist-cum-politician Swapan Dasgupta as an 'independent' Rajya Sabha MP, two-and-a-half months after he had resigned from the post following a row over his candidature as a BJP nominee in the Assembly elections in West Bengal....