According to official reports, 11,267 persons tested positive for Covid-19 till Wednesday night in Arunachal Pradesh with 21 persons losing their lives and 8,396 people recovering....

American poet Louise Gluck was on Thursday awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2020 "for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal"....

The coronavirus pandemic in the Americas was spreading in new and different ways, while the rate of transmission in the region was still very active, Carissa F.Etienne, Director of the Washington-based Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) said....

Democrat Vice Presidential nominee Kamala Harris brought the forensic skills of a prosecutor to the debate trying to overshadow incumbent Vice President Mike Pence as they faced off on the national stage, attempting to pin each other to policies they would avoid while deflecting hard questions....

A petition has been filed in Allahabad High Court on behalf of the family members of the Hathras victim, alleging that the district administration has illegally confined them in their house....

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday emphasised on people driven fight against the Coronavirus and hailed the role played by the Covid warriors in saving lives. ...
The combined side-effects of Covid-19 and the long lockdown may have dealt a deadly blow to Mumbai's Dabbawalas -- the world-renowned 130-year-old tribe of tiffin-box carriers....

With a fresh spike of 78,524 coronavirus cases and 971 deaths in 24 hours, India's tally on Thursday went past the 68-lakh-mark with a total of 68,35,655 cases....

All does not seem to be well in the Rajasthan Congress as fresh cracks have started reappearing with the police lodging an FIR against the media manager of former Deputy Chief Minister Sachin Pilot and a Jaipur-based journalist....

With Covid protocols prevailing, leader of opposition Ramesh Chennithala on Thursday led a unique protest when he along with just four other leaders from the opposition walked a kilometre and arrived at the state secretariat to demand the resignation of Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan....