
US President Donald Trump has officially accepted the Republican Party's renomination for the November 3 election, while preaching his gospel of America First and casting his Democratic rival Joe Biden as a dangerous radical. ...

Odisha has reported highest single-day spike in Covid-19 cases after 3,682 more people tested positive for the disease, taking the state's tally to 94,668, a health department official said on Friday....
The Supreme Court on Friday issued notice to Centre and others on a PIL by BJP leader Ashwini Upadhyay challenging the National Commission for Minority Educational Institutes (NCMEI) Act, 2004, which seeks determination of minority status by states on the basis of population for the purpose of administering educational institutions. ...

Karnataka's coronavirus epicentre, Bengaluru, has a positivity rate of 15.55 per cent after the completion of 7.6 lakh tests, an official said on Friday. ...

The Supreme Court on Friday said the University Grants Commission's guideline for conducting the final year university examination before September 30 is correct, and states and universities cannot promote students without holding exams....

The Supreme Court on Friday said Covid-19 cannot be a ground for postponing elections, as it declined to entertain a petition seeking postponement of the Assembly elections in Bihar till the state is free from the Covid-19 pandemic. ...
Even if it entails repeating an academic year,parents unwilling to send children to school...

The Kerala government has now submitted before the Enforcement Directorate (ED) that there was no clearance from the Centre for the Rs 20 crore Life Mission Housing project that is presently underway at Thrissur....

Months after the Delhi Police named suspended AAP Councillor Tahir Hussain as one of the main conspirators in the Delhi riots, the East MCD on Thursday sacked him from the post of Councillor. ...

One of the major reasons EMs are forecasted to register less negative growth in 2020, vs. AEs, is the higher share of agricultural output....