
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Saturday agreed to maintain regular contact between relevant officials, including in the context of the continuing Covid-19 challenges....

Punjab Social Security, Women and Child Development Minister Aruna Chaudhary on Saturday instructed all anganwadi centres in the state to be shut till further orders due to resurgence in Covid-19 cases....

The Bihar Assembly on Saturday witnessed uproarious scenes over the allegation against Revenue and Land Reforms Minister Ram Surat Rai for framing charges against the Principal of a school in Muzaffarpur district for his involvement in illicit liquor trade. ...

After remaining on the run for over three months, the Maharashtra Police has arrested a senior journalist, editor and author Dr. Balasaheb J. Bothe-Patil, the alleged key conspirator in the brutal killing of a Nationalist Congress Party leader Rekha Jare on November 30 last year, officials said here on Saturday....
In a surprise move, the name of M.P. Joseph, a former Kerala bureaucrat, has figured in the candidates list of the P.J. Joseph faction of the Kerala Congress (M), in the Congress-led UDF. ...
A large number of women party workers were among those who took part in a sit-in protest in front of the residence of former Chief Minister Oommen Chandy here on Saturday, raising slogans that he would not be allowed to leave his Puthupally constituency to contest from Nemom in the state capital district. ...

The BJP is planning to launch a door-to-door campaign in Tamil Nadu's Kanyakumari as it seeks to wrest power in the LS seat in the April 6 bypolls....

The US city of Minneapolis, where African-American man George Floyd was brutally killed under police custody last year, has agreed to pay $27 million to settle a lawsuit with the victim's family...

The overall number of global Covid-19 cases has topped 119 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 2.63 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University....

Over 18 lakh of vaccine doses against Covid-19 were administered to the beneficiaries in India on Friday while the cumulative figure has crossed 2.8 crore in the country, the Union Health Ministry said....