
The Covid-19 tally of Uttar Pradesh's Agra district has risen to 10,110 with 29 fresh cases reported in the last 24 hours. So far there have been 170 deaths. For the past four days, the number of cases reported daily had gone down to below 20, but on Wednesday there was an abrupt increase in the numbers. ...

An encounter started between the terrorists and the security forces in north Kashmir's Baramulla district on Thursday morning, officials said....

The overall number of global coronavirus cases has topped 78.6 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 1.72 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University....

Union Sports and Youth Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju on Wednesday flagged off the 917 km long "Brahmaputra Aamantran Abhiyaan", a river rafting expedition and public outreach programme in Arunachal Pradesh and Assam....

A statue of Dalit ideologue, Dr Bhim Rao Ambedkar has been desecrated in Sikandarpur area in Ballia district....
A man allegedly set on fire a woman's house after she reportedly turned down his proposal....

The prison authorities in Uttar Pradesh have ordered a probe into allegations that an event at the district jail here "glorified" godman Asaram, who is serving a sentence for rape. ...

For West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's nephew Abhishek Banerjee, it has been like a journey from the rags to riches. The Diamond Harbour MP made his first political appearance exactly a decade ago, when the Trinamool Congress stormed to power in 2011, toppling the world's longest-serving Communist government in Bengal....

Nepal Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli has been removed as the parliamentary leader of Nepal Communist Party amid an internal turbulence within the Himalayan nation's ruling party that has triggered a fresh political crisis....

With the farmers continuing their protests at Delhi's borders over the new Union farm laws, authorities have tightened security arrangements to deal with any kind of law and order situation at the Singhu, Tikri and Ghazipur borders. Huge blocks of stones, barricades, barbed wire and even dumper trucks are being used to block the roads at t...