The third and the final phase of the Bihar Assembly polls got underway on Saturday morning and long queues of men and women covered in shawls and jackets were seen outside polling booths maintaining social distancing. Despite EVM malfunction in several areas over 7 per cent polling was registered in two hours...

Even as polling was underway on Saturday in 78 Assembly constituencies in 15 districts of Bihar, a Presiding Officer posted at a polling centre in Muzaffarpur district's Katra Block died due to heart attack. "Presiding Officer Kedar Rai, deployed at voting centre number 190 in Katra, died ...

Amid the growing suspense over the outcome of the recently-concluded US presidential election, Democratic nominee Joe Biden said that he was going to win the hotly-contested race "with a clear majority, with the nation behind us", but stopped short of declaring victory....

The total Covid-19 caseload in Odisha crossed the three lakh-mark while the death toll surpassed the 1,400-mark, said the health department on Saturday....

Reversing a three-week trend, 2,960 new Covid cases were registered against 2,701 discharged on Thursday across Karnataka, said the state health department in a bulletin on Friday....

In the wake of his questioning by the NIA and ED, Kerala Higher Education Minister KT Jaleel has been directed by the Customs to appear before the agency officials on Monday....
As voting was underway in 78 constituencies in the third and final phase of the Bihar Assembly elections on Saturday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah appealed to the voters to exercise their franchise in record numbers....

The US has set a new record for the number of daily coronavirus cases, after more than 125,000 people tested positive for the disease in a 24-hour period, the highest since the onset of the pandemic, according to the Johns Hopkins University....

The overall number of global coronavirus cases has topped the 49 million mark, while the deaths have surged to more than 1,241,360, according to the Johns Hopkins University....

After Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden pulled ahead of President Donald Trump in Pennsylvania, a state court has ordered election officials to stop counting some votes....