India is preparing to bring back around 700 more Sikhs who are have been tortured in Afghanistan. These Sikhs will be brought back in several batches. After the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) was passed, first batch of 11 Sikhs reached India on July 26. The first batch of returnees received a warm welcome by the BJP leaders at the airport...
In the 1990s, when India's political discourse was marred by agitations on 'Kar Seva' and 'Rath Yatra', he was the Sangh Parivar's celebrated ideologue and former BJP General Secretary, who was at the centre of the BJP's Ram temple strategy....

The fifth round of talks between the Indian and Chinese military representatives to discuss disengagements are set to take place on Sunday in Moldo, even as Beijing has started troop and materiel build-up in depth areas across the 3,488-km Line of Actual Control (LAC)....

With 54,735 new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, India on Sunday crossed the 17 lakh mark with an overall 17,50,723 cases, fresh data from the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare revealed....

Global COVID-19 deaths surpassed 680,000 on Saturday, reaching 680,575 as of 11.35 a.m. (1535 GMT), according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University....

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who was diagnosed with the COVID-19 earlier this month, said that everyone will probably contract coronavirus at some point, "so face up to it"....

Even as the veterans vs Team Rahul war within the Congress is out in the open, former Union Minister Shashi Tharoor came to the rescue of party colleagues Manish Tewari and Milind Deora, saying the UPA's transformative 10 years were distorted and traduced by a motivated and malicious narrative....

On Saturday, Kerala saw 1,129 new Covid cases getting registered. It also saw eight patients succumbing to the virus, which is the highest on a single day, taking the death toll to 81 in the state. ...

Tamil Nadu has reported 5,879 new COVID-19 cases, taking the tally to 251,738, health officials said on Saturday....

Even as Andhra Pradesh witnessed a slight dip in its day count, the overall Covid tally breached the 1.5 lakh-mark on Saturday. State health officials said that 9,276 cases, and 58 deaths were recorded in the 24 hours ending 9 a.m. on Saturday. With the latest update, the overall Covid tally now stands at 1,50,209 cases....