
The residents of the national capital on Sunday woke up to a cold morning with the minimum temperature settling at 5 degrees Celsius. The people however, continued to breathe polluted air, as the Air Quality Index (AQI) was 323 for PM10 and 210 for PM2.5....

With 94 new Omicron cases detected in last 24 hours, the overall number of infections caused by the new highly-transmissible Covid-19 variant rose to 1,525 on Sunday, with Maharashtra and Delhi continuing to be the worst-hit, according to the Union Health Ministry....

Israel has reportedly documented the first case of "Florona" -- a simultaneous infection with the Covid-19 and influenza....

Massive mountains of low grade iron ore, many of them several hundred feet high, have now emerged as the latest flash point between the establishment and activists in Goa. ...

In the last 24 hours, India registered 27,553 new Covid-19 cases, a substantial spike amid the ongoing resurgence, with 284 additional deaths, the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare announced on Sunday. ...

Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has sent a smart phone and a bag of gifts to the Dalit bangle maker, Sitara Jatav, whose house she visited last week in Uttar Pradesh's Firozabad district. ...

With the continued surged in the number of new Covid-19 cases in Uttar Pradesh, parents were now wary of sending their children back to school. ...

Amid an alarming increase of new Covid-19 cases in Uttar Pradesh, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has ordered a state-wide mock drill on Monday and Tuesday to review preparedness to tackle the resurgence. ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be in Meerut on Sunday to lay the foundation for the Major Dhyan Chand Sports University. ...

The Ministry of Jal Shakti has said that during 2021, under the Aquifer Mapping programme, an area of 18.4 lakh sq km out of the total 25 lakh sq km area identified for mapping in the country has been covered. ...