
Total coronavirus cases in Jammu and Kashmir crossed the one lakh mark as 507 more persons tested positive on Wednesday, with 433 more recoveries recorded in the Union Territory. ...

In a major relief for Republic TV editor Arnab Goswami, the Supreme Court on Wednesday granted him interim bail in a 2018 abetment to suicide case. The top court noted that it is deeply concerned if courts do not preserve human liberty and if constitutional courts do not protect liberty, then who will? ...

Indian vaccines offer lot of hope, due to various factors including a good safety signal, display of immunogenicity and capability of using the current storage infrastructure, said AIIMS Director Randeep Guleria in an exclusive interview with IANS....

A day after Bihar Assembly election results were out, giving the Congress 19 of the 70 seats it contested, the party on Wednesday flayed Grand Alliance partner CPI-MLL which had questioned its winning percentage. ...

The Chirag Paswan-led Lok Janshakti Party (LJP), Rakesh Ranjan aka Pappu Yadav-led Jan Adhikar Party and former Union Minister Upendra Kushwaha-led Rashtriya Lok Samta Party (RLSP) failed to make any impact despite creating a lot of noise and buzz during the Bihar assembly election campaign....

After the stellar performance in the Bihar Assembly polls and the bypolls to various state Assemblies, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) would be celebrating the triumph at its headquarters in Delhi's Deen Dayal Upadhyay Marg on Wednesday. ...

Moving forward to resolve the border dispute, a three-step disengagement proposal including restoration of status quo ante as of April this year in Eastern Ladakh is under consideration between India and China. However, no decision has taken place about the trouble at Depsang Plains. ...

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has called for "fair allocation" of a Covid-19 vaccine after drugmakers Pfizer and BioNTech this week said that their vaccine candidate was found to be more than 90 per cent effective in preventing the disease in interim analysis of data....

A court here on Wednesday extended by a day the ED custody of now-suspended IAS officer M Sivasankar after the Enforcement Directorate submitted an affidavit to say that his custody was required since "he and his 'team' in the CMO office were well aware of the gold smuggling racket" that has rocked Kerala politics. ...

The Gujarat government on Wednesday decided to reopen high and higher secondary schools and colleges in the state from November 23 subject to adherence of Covid-19 guidelines. However, there has been no decision on reopening of primary schools. The government said it will analyse the feedback on implementation of Wednesday's ...