
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates believes that a "lot of things" will be back to "normal" by the summer of 2021 if Covid-19 vaccine approvals don't turn up any nasty surprises. ...

The overall number of global coronavirus cases has topped 56.8 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 1.35 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University....

Mamata Banerjee-led West Bengal's ruling Trinamool Congress seemed to be locking horns with its arch rival BJP over the issue of appointing five central leaders to evaluate organisational strengths and weaknesses of its district units in the state. ...

The body of a missing 16-year-old girl was found hanging from a tree in a forest area in Sambhal district....
Gunjan Rastogi, a well-known community leader in the New York region has been elected as the new President of the National Indo-American Association for Senior Citizens (NIAASC)....
Statewide Audit in Georgia confirms that Joe Biden defeated President Donald Trump. News released from Secretary of State's office...

An anti-terrorism court in Punjab province has awarded 10-year imprisonment to Jamat-ud-Dawa (JUD) chief Hafiz Saeed and other top leaders of the organisation in at least two cases related to terror-financing....

Bihar Education Minister Mewalal Choudhary, allegedly facing corruption charges in the recruitment of assistant professors and scientists, has resigned. He was sworn in as a cabinet minister just a few days ago along with Chief Minister Nitish Kumar....

In the wake of the alarming rise in the number of coronavirus cases in Delhi, the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has deputed four separate high-level Central teams to Haryana, Rajasthan, Gujarat and Manipur to take stock of the situation there....

A 21-year-old techie jumped to death from a multistorey building of a leading information technology company in Hyderabad on Thursday....