
The number of Covid-19 positive cases in Odisha has increased to 75,537 as 2,819 fresh cases were reported in the last 24 hours, the health department informed on Saturday. ...

The festival of Ganesh Chaturthi or Vinayaka Chaturthi as it is called was celebrated across Tamil Nadu on Saturday with people performing puja before the idol of the elephant-headed Hindu God in the morning. ...

The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) leader and Lok Sabha member Kanimozhi on Saturday demanded the suspension of Vaidya Rajesh Kotecha, Secretary of the Ministry of AYUSH, for allegedly asking non-Hindi speaking doctors to leave the training session. ...

In a significant verdict, the Bombay High Court has said that there is a possibility that Tablighis who attended the Markaz in Delhi were "chosen to make them scapegoats" and slammed the media propaganda attempting to blame them for spreading Covid-19 in India....

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, there is some reason to cheer. India has achieved a record high of 63,631 recoveries in a day, the Health Ministry said. The daily tests on Saturday scaled a new high of more than 10 lakh, taking the cumulative tests to more than 3.4 crore....

Continuing his tirade against what he termed are the the double standards of Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, State BJP president K. Surendran called the former a 'kumbidi', referring to the role played by Vijayan in the Thiruvananthapuram Airport, now given to Adani Enterprises....

In view of the reports of restrictions on inter-state and intra-state movement of people and goods, the Centre on Saturday directed all states to follow the Unlock 3.0 guidelines and allow such movement without any separate permission or permit....
A PIL has been filed in Gujarat High Court, seeking direction to the state government not to suppress the "real cause" of death of lions in Sasan Gir, the only abode of Asiatic lions in the world. ...

Greece has slammed Turkey's move to convert the Chora museum, the 1,000-year-old former Byzantine Greek Orthodox church, into a mosque, saying it was "totally condemnable"....

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), said that the ongoing global coronavirus pandemic could be over within two years....