In a warm gesture on his 30th birthday on Saturday, Maharashtra Tourism Minister Aditya Thackeray helped save the life of a 6-day old infant suffering from major heart problems, Yuva Sena sources said. ....

Two more corona 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. ....

Around 4,000 Assamese migrants workers struggled to return home as they assembled at the Palace Grounds here but had no information for any possible train journey to their state on Friday. ....

Gujarat is recording almost 30 deaths on an average for the last 12 days, apart from around 480 cases daily since the beginning of the month. As many as 5,768 cases have been reported in the last 12 days in Gujarat. ....

Former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi during his conversation with Professor of Diplomacy at Harvard's Kennedy School, Nicholas Burns, said that the India-US partnership works because both are tolerant nations, but sadly the DNA of tolerance has disappeared in both the countries. ....

A 'roadmap' has been chalked out to douse Assam's oil well fire, which continues to blaze for the fourth day on Friday and has till now claimed two lives, the state-owned Oil India Ltd (OIL) announced. ....

The Aligarh Muslim University's (AMU) decision to hold online examinations is creating more problems. After a professor came out openly against the decision, the resident students have now refused to vacate hostels and return to their homes, citing connectivity issues in their home districts. ....

With spike in the COVID cases in Gurugram, the reverse migration of Bengali labourers will further raise concerns for residents living in upscale residential complexes and societies as the residents will face shortage of maid and domestic help in days to come. ....

After violating the ceasefire on the Line of Control (LoC) in J&K's Rajouri district on Thursday, Pakistan again resorted to firing and intense shelling in Poonch district, an army official said. ....

A complaint has been filed in a Bihar court against Chinese President Xi Jinping and World Health Organization (WHO) Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus for allegedly conspiring to spread coronavirus worldwide. ....

Gujarat saw the highest number of positive coronavirus cases in a single day -- 513 -- on Thursday, taking the state's total number of cases to 22,067, while there were 38 more fatalities, taking the total death toll to 1,385. ....

Amid apprehensions of community spread of Covid, Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Thursday ordered stricter lockdown on the weekends and public holidays with movement to be restricted to e-passes holders. ....

Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Thursday once again targeted the Yogi Adityanath-led Uttar Pradesh government over the alleged irregularities in the recruitment of 69,000 teachers, saying that it was going on under the nose of the government and it took them a year to notice it. ....

Prime Minister Narendra Modi invoked Vivekananda and talked about Bengal's business revival while making another thrust for self-reliant India on Thursday as he made the inaugural address on the occasion of 95th Annual Day of Indian Chamber of Commerce (ICC), via video conferencing. ....

Around 7,000 people have been evacuated while the inferno completely and partially burnt more than 35 houses as the fire fighters, NDRF, and engineers intensified their efforts to douse the oil well fire in Assam for the third day on Thursday, officials said. ....

Leader of Opposition in Bihar Assembly Tejashwi Yadav on Thursday met his father Lalu Prasad at a paying ward of Rajendra Institute of Medical Science (RIMS) hospital here and extended birthday greetings. ....

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said that as the country goes through challenging times amidst the Covid-19 pandemic, the government and the industry need to take bold decisions to grow rather than taking a conservative stance. ....

The number of total COVID-19 positive cases in Odisha rose to 3,386 with the detection of 136 more cases in the last 24 hours, said the Health department on Thursday. ....

Nine employees in the UP Chief Minister's helpline office have tested positive for Coronavirus in the reports that came on Wednesday night. ....

Five months since the first case was reported in India, 9,996 Covid cases were reported in a day, as deaths due to the Coronavirus crossed the 8,000-mark with 357 succumbing to the pandemic within 24-hours, the data released by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare revealed. ....