
With a single-day spike of 63,489 coronavirus cases, India's total tally reached 25,89,682 even as its death toll climbed up to 49,980 with 944 more fatalities in the last 24 hours, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MOHFW) data said on Sunday....

Rahat worked hard educating himself right up to PhD on a subject which was to stand him in good stead in subsequent years -- Urdu mushaira. And what a performer he became in mushairas charging up to Rs 10 lakh for an appearance -- quite unprecedented....
The tussle between the heart and the mind is a continuous and never ending process. Yet, there are companies who are doing an excellent job of balancing the two....

India’s 74th Independence Day was celebrated in Consulate General of India, New York with a flag-hoisting ceremony on Saturday, August 15th 2020....

US President Donald Trump said his younger brother is having a "tough time" as he visited him in a New York City hospital....
After expressing his inability to appear before the Enforcement Directorate officials, former principal secretary to Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan - M. Sivasankar - changed his mind and presented himself before the officials at the ED office here on Saturday....

The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) has profusely thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for mentioning Ram Mandir in his Independence Day speech from the ramparts of the Red Fort on Saturday. ...
The coronavirus pandemic cast its long shadow over the 74th Independence Day function at the Red Fort here on Saturday, with celebrations remaining conspicuously muted and low-key....

Odisha reported its highest single-day spike of 2,496 new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, taking the state's total tally to 57,126, the Health Department said on Saturday....

In a confession before he was hanged to death in April for the killing of of 'Bangabandhu' Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, dismissed military officer Abdul Majed said that former Bangladesh Army chief Ziaur Rahman was behind the 1975 assassination. ...