NIA officials on Monday began questioning now-suspended senior IAS officer M. Sivasankar for the second time in four days at the agency office here regarding the gold smuggling case that has rocked Kerala since the beginning of July....
The overall number of global coronavirus cases has topped 16.1 million, while the deaths have increased to over 647,000, according to the Johns Hopkins University....
The death toll from COVID-19 in the US was nearing 150,000 with daily fatalities continuously passing the 1,000 mark, amid calls to shut down the country to contain the surging pandemic. ...
The US Consulate in Chengdu was closed on Monday after China asked it to be shut down last week as a retaliatory move against Washington's decision to close the Asian giant's mission in Houston....
Larry Kudlow, US President Donald Trump's economic adviser, has said that the next round of COVID-19 relief package will include $1,200 direct payments to Americans, as a resurgence of coronavirus cases across the country has posed a major risk to the recovery of the economy....
Brazil's Covid-19 death toll climbed to 87,004 on Sunday after 555 more patients died from the disease in the previous 24 hours....
ropical storm Hanna, which made landfall as a hurricane in Texas, has caused floods and power outage in the US state. ...
ujarat detected 1,110 coronavirus positive cases on Sunday, the highest daily spike so far, which took the total positive cases to 55,822 and saw 21 casualties in the last 24 hours, health department said....
For the third consecutive day, Maharashtra notched a downslide in Covid-19 cases and deaths, though Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) continued to cause concerns as fatalities crossed the 9K-mark on Sunday, health officials said....
As many as 6,986 persons tested positive for coronavirus in Tamil Nadu in the past 24 hours, the state Health Department said on Sunday. ...
