
Noted director and cinematographer K.V. Anand passed away on Friday morning here following a cardiac arrest. He was 54....

Two top leaders of the ruling AIADMK in Tamil Nadu -- Coordinator and Deputy Chief Minister O. Panneerselvam, and Joint Coordinator and Chief Minister K. Palaniswami -- on Friday enthused the AIADMK workers by saying that the party will win the Assembly polls for the third time in a row....

Twenty officials of the GMR Hyderabad International Airport Ltd (GHIAL) have been appointed as special police officers to help police in enforcement of Covid-19 safety guidelines....
The Haryana government on Friday announced weekend lockdown in nine districts -- Panchkula, Gurugram, Faridabad, Sonepat, Rohtak, Karnal, Hisar, Sirsa and Fatehabad....

Uttar Pradesh will witness a complete closure from 8 p.m. on Friday to 7 a.m. on Tuesday in a bid to tackle the second wave of the novel coronavirus pandemic....

Bihar Chief Secretary Arun Kumar Singh on Friday died of Covid-19, health officials said....

The Kerala government on Friday slashed the price of RT-PCR tests to Rs 500 from Rs 1,700 at all private laboratories in the state, according to a government notification....

Sonia Gandhi-led Congress performance in all the four states -- West Bengal, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Assam -- where Assembly polls took place remained bad, according to exit polls. ...

Chennai has reported the highest Covid-19 test positivity rate at 20 per cent followed by Tirunelveli at 17 per cent, public health authorities said....

India witnessed highest spike of 3,86,452 fresh cases of Covid-19 and 3,498 fatalities due to virus infection in the last 24 hours, according to Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. ...