The central government has advised to all the eight northeastern states to set up e-office in a fixed time and all technical and financial support to achieve the e-office mission to be implemented right from civil secretariat to district level in all the states would be provided by the centre, officials said on Saturday....

New York governor Andrew Cuomo signed into law a series of police reform bills that will ban chokeholds by police and allow for transparency of officers' disciplinary records....

The global number of COVID-19 cases has increased to over 7.6 million, while the death toll surged past 425,000, according to the Johns Hopkins University....

anadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that his government has planned to introduce mandatory temperature screening for passengers and employees at the country's airports. ...

Around 4,000 Assamese migrants workers struggled to return home as they assembled at the Palace Grounds here but had no information for any possible train journey to their state on Friday. ...

With 24 by-elections lined up in Madhya Pradesh over the next couple of months, the Shivraj Singh Chouhan government seems to have preferred smart means over wise ones to improve its report card on the coronavirus crisis....

Two more Covid-19 patients, including a woman, died in Assam on Friday, taking the state's death count to eight while a coronavirus-infected woman gave birth to a baby boy in Meghalaya, officials said....

With 31 more coronavirus patients succumbing on Friday, Gujarat's death toll climbed to 1,416 even as the state's total tally climbed to 22,562, in which Ahmedabad is the main contributor so far with 15,962 cases. ...

A Hindu organisation has moved the Supreme Court to challenge a provision of a 1991 law that provides for maintaining the "religious character" of holy structures as existed on August 15, 1947, in order to reclaim disputed religious sites through litigation, other than the Ram Janmabhoomi in Ayodhya....

Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Friday made a scathing attack on the Central government alleging that the Rajya Sabha polls were deliberately deferred in March as the Centre's poaching attempts were incomplete by then, and now when the dates were rescheduled, "four of our MLAs from Gujarat have already resigned"....