
Russia registered 29,258 new coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours, taking its total to 3,021,964, the country's Covid-19 response centre said on Saturday....

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Amid the ongoing two-day national executive meeting of the Janata Dal United (JD-U), the opposition parties have attacked Chief Minister Nitish Kumar for not taking a strong stand against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) after six JD-U MLAs jumped ship to the saffron party....

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K. Palaniswami on Saturday spoke to actor Rajinikanth and enquired about his health....
Prasanna Earnest and Anil Kumar of the CPI-M are all set to become the Mayors of Kollam and Ernakulam respectively....

Kerala reported 3,527 new coronavirus cases on Saturday after testing 35,586 samples, even as 3,782 more patients were cured, a statement from Health Minister KK Shailaja's office said. ...

The Central government said on Saturday that more than 50 samples of returnees from the United Kingdom, which recently found a potentially more infectious variant of novel coronavirus in its population, are currently undergoing genome sequencing at the designated laboratories across the country....

After the Shiromani Akali Dal, another NDA ally, Rashtriya Loktantrik Party (RLP), on Saturday made an official announcement to break its alliance with the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), as its demand to withdraw the contentious farm laws remained unfulfilled....

The state-owned OIL has launched 'OIL Shakti', a society-based sanitary napkin production and marketing unit in Assam, to promote the menstrual health and hygiene management among women of vulnerable communities so as to reduce maternal and infant mortality ratios, officials said here on Saturday....

Rashtriya Janata Dal leader and former Bihar health minister Tej Pratap Yadav on Saturday predicted that the Janata Dal (United) will soon disintegrate in the state. The soon of RJD chief Lalu Prasad said on Saturday: "The decline of JD (U) is now certain. It has begun in Arunachal Pradesh and soon it will disintegrate in...