Two more Covid-19 patients, including a woman, died in Assam on Friday, taking the state's death count to eight while a coronavirus-infected woman gave birth to a baby boy in Meghalaya, officials said....
With 31 more coronavirus patients succumbing on Friday, Gujarat's death toll climbed to 1,416 even as the state's total tally climbed to 22,562, in which Ahmedabad is the main contributor so far with 15,962 cases. ...
A Hindu organisation has moved the Supreme Court to challenge a provision of a 1991 law that provides for maintaining the "religious character" of holy structures as existed on August 15, 1947, in order to reclaim disputed religious sites through litigation, other than the Ram Janmabhoomi in Ayodhya....
Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Friday made a scathing attack on the Central government alleging that the Rajya Sabha polls were deliberately deferred in March as the Centre's poaching attempts were incomplete by then, and now when the dates were rescheduled, "four of our MLAs from Gujarat have already resigned"....
Amid an ongoing dispute between India and Nepal, an Indian farmer from Bihar's Sitamarhi district was killed while two others were injured in indiscriminate firing by the Nepal police at the India-Nepal border on Friday....
The Congress has alleged that the BJP has been pressurising its MLAs in the Gujarat Assembly to 'manufacture artificial numbers' just before the Rajya Sabha polls for four vacant seats....
The Supreme Court on Friday slammed the Delhi government calling its patient care during Covid-19 pandemic horrendous, horrific and pathetic....
The Central government on Friday said the recovery rate of Covid-19 positive cases has increased to 49.47 per cent and a total of 1,47,194 individuals have recovered from the deadly disease....
The Uttar Pradesh government on Friday informed the Supreme Court that it may have to continue with the restrictions imposed on the movement at the borders with Delhi, since the Covid-19 cases in the national capital are almost 40 times more than in Noida and Ghaziabad....
There is more controversy around absconder Mehul Choksi's companies Gitanjali Gems Limited (GGL), Nakshatra World Limited (NWL) and Nakshatra Brands Limited (NBL), as now the insolvency professional (IP), Vijay Kumar Garg, has been penalised for "attempt to siphon off crores" from the ailing companies....
