
rom 4,261 cases on Thursday, Andhra Pradesh's cumulative tally of COVID-19 cases shot up to 4,402 on Friday. The tally of active cases in the state has also climbed to 1,723 from Thursday's figure of 1,641 active cases, the state nodal officer reported....

Launching a broadside against the unprecedented 'hike' in the electricity tariff by the Pinarayi Vijayan government, the Congress-led UDF is organising a 'Lights off Kerala' protest on June 17 when people have been asked to switch off the power for three minutes at 9 p.m, said a top leader. ...
The UK government is expected to apply much less rigorous European Union (EU) border checks on imports than it initially had planned, after the Brexit transition period finishes at the end of this year, media reports said on Friday....
During the corona period, lakhs of migrant labourers who returned home from the cities have found support under the MGNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act). Under the scheme, the daily wage labourers in the villages got 84 per cent more work in June than in the corresponding period last year....
Feelings of uncertainty, fear, anxiety and worry playing on your mind? While the world is dealing with the ‘new normal, sometimes an old school trick can help you find happiness - a simple bite of an ice-cream....
Former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi in conversation with Harvard Professor Nicholas Burns said the division in the society weakens the country but the people who divide portray it as "strength of the country"....
Google on Friday announced the launch of a new feature on Google Search, Assistant, and Maps for users in India to help them find information on Covid-19 testing centres near them. ...
Former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi during his conversation with Professor of Diplomacy at Harvard's Kennedy School, Nicholas Burns, said that the India-US partnership works because both are tolerant nations, but sadly the DNA of tolerance has disappeared in both the countries....

The global number of COVID-19 cases has increased to over 7.5 million, while the death toll was nearing 421,000, according to the Johns Hopkins University....

Gujarat saw the highest number of positive coronavirus cases in a single day -- 513 -- on Thursday, taking the state's total number of cases to 22,067, while there were 38 more fatalities, taking the total death toll to 1,385....