Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant, here on Wednesday, said rice and other items being supplied to people in the state's only containment zone at Mangor hill were of good quality. ....

After temples in Mathura objected to alcohol-based sanitizers, it is now a revered Muslim shrine-the Dargah Aala Hazrat in Bareilly -- that has asked its followers and mosque heads to avoid using alcohol-based sanitizers. ....

Verbal sparring has started among leaders in Bihar ahead of the Assembly election to be held later this year as Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Wednesday retaliated after RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav accused him of not stepping outside his house, saying that even Yadav's own party does not know where he lives and goes. ....

To feed the poor, the Noida Authority in tandem with scores of housing societies served 18.2 lakh rotis (breads) to over 300,000 people, who were pushed into deep distress due to months-long nationwide lockdown. ....

DMK legislator J. Anbazhagan, a Covid-19 patient died here at a private hospital on Wednesday, which incidentally was his birthday too, said party officials. ....

Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati on Wednesday hailed the Supreme Court's order in which it asked the state governments to consider withdrawal of cases against migrant workers lodged for violation of the lockdown. ....

Five terrorists were killed in an encounter with security forces in south Kashmir's Shopian district on Wednesday, officials said. ....

The Hyderabad Police have arrested two persons for attacking a doctor in the government-run Gandhi Hospital on Tuesday night following the death of their relative in the hospital due to COVID-19. ....

Karnataka has crossed the mark of testing four lakh people for COVID-19 till Tuesday with a positivity rate of 1.4 per cent and a recovery rate of 44 per cent, said a minister on Wednesday. ....

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has said that the state had effectively controlled the spread of coronavirus. ....

Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday once again attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his silence over the India-China stand-off. Gandhi has been demanding a statement on the current situation at the Line of Actual Control in eastern Ladakh. ....

An eight-year-old girl was killed after being attacked by a leopard in Bahraich's Dhobiyanpur village here. ....

A massive fire broke out at the leaking natural gas producing well of Oil India Ltd (OIL) in Assam's Tinsukia district on Tuesday even as an expert team from a Singapore-based emergency management firm was trying to plug the leakage, prompting the state government to seek the Indian Air Force's help to douse the blaze. ....

Gujarat, which is witnessing an average of 30 deaths per day due to Covid-19 since last ten days, on Tuesday saw its toll reach 1,313 with 33 new fatalities, while with nearly 500 cases daily since the month's beginning, the number of coronavirus case in the state now stands at 21,044. ....

With the emergence of the real Anamika Shukla, in whose name a teacher in Uttar Pradesh was allegedly drawing salary from 25 places and hadd garnered more than Rs 1 crore, Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi on Tuesday demanded the state government should apologise to the woman who is still unemployed. ....

Republic Media Network TV Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami on Tuesday assured that he would go to the N.M. Joshi Marg Police station at 2 p.m. on Wednesday. ....

The Supreme Court on Tuesday passed a slew of directions to state governments and Union Territories to provide benefits for migrant workers, who returned to their native states and directed the governments to submit schemes to generate employment for the migrants, and also to withdraw cases against them for violating lockdown orders. ....

A low intensity earthquake measuring 3.9 on the Richter scale hit Kashmir on Tuesday. ....

A day after Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh responded to former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi's jibe at Amit Shah, the Wayanad MP on Tuesday again questioned the government on Chinese intrusion in India. ....

India on Tuesday recorded its highest-ever single-day spike in novel coronavirus cases at 9,987, a Health Ministry data revealed. At least 331 corona patients died in the last 24 hours in India, taking the total fatalities to 7,466. ....