India on Friday witnessed its worst ever rise in Covid cases as it registered 13,586 positive cases in 24 hours. Maharashtra and Delhi contributed almost half of these numbers. The total corona tally in India touched 3,80,532 cases, the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare data has revealed. ....

Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Thursday launched the country's first mobile Covid testing lab, which has capability of testing for TB and HIV also. ....

Terming as "horrendous" and "barbaric" the brutality with which 20 Indian soldiers were killed by Chinese troops in Ladakh, Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Thursday demanded accountability for the loss of lives in the violent border clash. ....

West Bengal's ruling Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee will attend the all-party meeting called by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to discuss the cross-border conflict between India and China in Galwan Valley of Ladakh. ....

The Supreme Court on Thursday stayed the annual Rath Yatra in Odisha's Puri due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The famous yatra was to start from the Jagannath Temple on June 23. However, now there will be no charriot pulling of Lord Jagannath, Balabhadra and Subhadra and all other activities associated with the annual program also stand cancelled. ....

The proposed 'Bhumi Pujan' programme of Ram temple, scheduled to be held on July 2, has been put off in view of the escalation of tension between India and China. ....

The NASSCOM Foundation Bangalore and the Infosys Foundation jointly contributed 10,000 ration/food kits for distribution among the needy in the Union Territories of J&K and Ladakh in an outreach effort by the army. ....

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch a mega job scheme for migrant workers who have returned to their states. ....

Bihar's Jan Adhikar Party President Pappu Yadav on Thursday along with his supporters took to the streets of Patna and blackened advertisements and billboards of Chinese companies while riding a JCB machine, and demanded their removal. ....

The Pakistan Army violated the ceasefire on the Line of Control on Thursday in Jammu & Kashmir's Kupwara district. ....

Tibetan government-in-exile President Lobsang Sangay on Thursday condemned the death of the Indian soldiers in Ladakh's Galwan valley and urged both India and China to resolve the issue non-violently and amicably. ....

Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Thursday took a pot shot at the Narendra Modi government accusing it of adopting a weak strategy and kneeling down before China by "handing over" a rail contract to a Chinese firm and demanded the government give a strong message to the neighbouring country. ....

Emphasising the importance of wearing a mask amid Covid-19 pandemic, Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa, ministers, celebrities and a host of officials observed 'Mask Day' here on Thursday. ....

Telangana on Thursday bid tearful adieu to its son Colonel B. Santosh Babu, who laid down his life in the violent clash with Chinese troops in Ladakh on Monday. ....

The Maharashtra Youth Congress has announced a 'Service Week' from Friday to mark senior party leader Rahul Gandhi's 50th birthday on June 19, a party leader said here on Thursday. ....

Hours after India was elected to the UN Security Council with an overwhelming majority, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he was grateful to the support shown by the global community and added that India will work to promote global peace, security, resilience and equity. ....

Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi once again hit out at the Narendra Modi government over the killing of 20 Indian soldiers by the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) in an unprecedented attack in Ladakh's Galwan Valley and asked why soldiers were sent "unarmed" to martyrdom. ....

A woman passenger travelling with her minor children from Uttar Pradesh's Pratapgarh to Noida has alleged that she was raped by the driver inside the bus between the Lucknow and Mathura stretch, the police said. ....

The Congress finalized its strategy late on Wednesday night for the Rajya Sabha elections. Senior leader Digvijay Singh is going to be the party's first priority candidate and his victory is thus almost a certainty. ....

China had sought to settle the border dispute with India by finalising its boundary in Tibet in 2001, but the then Atal Bihari Vajpayee government failed to respond, as per a recent book published by HarperCollins. ....