
The overall number of global coronavirus cases has topped 52 million, while the deaths have surged to 1,282,790, according to the Johns Hopkins University....

The number of people who have died with Covid-19 in Britain has passed 50,000, according to government figures released on Wednesday. ...

With 2,584 new cases in a day, Covid tally in Karnataka crossed 8.5-lakh to 8,53,796, including 30,743 active cases since the pandemic broke in the southern state in mid-March....

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K. Palaniswami said on Wednesday that a question mark hangs over DMK President M.K. Stalin contesting the next Assembly polls as the case against him in the Supreme Court has begun....

There seems to be no respite for the ruling CPI-M in Kerala, when its state secretary Kodiyeri Balakrishnan's son Bineesh Kodiyeri was sent to 14-days judicial custody by a court in Bengaluru on Wednesday....

On a day when Kerala continues to keep its test positivity rate below 11 per cent while recording 7,007 more coronavirus cases, Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan on Wednesday donated 20,000 N-95 masks to the southern state....

Total coronavirus cases in Jammu and Kashmir crossed the one lakh mark as 507 more persons tested positive on Wednesday, with 433 more recoveries recorded in the Union Territory. ...

In a major relief for Republic TV editor Arnab Goswami, the Supreme Court on Wednesday granted him interim bail in a 2018 abetment to suicide case. The top court noted that it is deeply concerned if courts do not preserve human liberty and if constitutional courts do not protect liberty, then who will? ...

Indian vaccines offer lot of hope, due to various factors including a good safety signal, display of immunogenicity and capability of using the current storage infrastructure, said AIIMS Director Randeep Guleria in an exclusive interview with IANS....

A day after Bihar Assembly election results were out, giving the Congress 19 of the 70 seats it contested, the party on Wednesday flayed Grand Alliance partner CPI-MLL which had questioned its winning percentage. ...