
US President Donald Trump is using the impossible suggestion of delaying elections as a tool to scuttle plans by many states to allow all voters to cast their ballots by mail and to lay the basis for questioning the validity of the results....

The COVID-19 death toll in the US is projected to top 230,822 by November, said the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) of the University of Washington. ...

Congress' interim President Sonia Gandhi was admitted to the Sir Ganga Ram Hospital on Thursday for "routine tests", the hospital said....

The Congress Rajya Sabha MPs met here on Thursday, in a meeting presided over by interim party President Sonia Gandhi who is completing her one year term as the interim chief in August. ...

Six months after the first coronavirus case was detected in the country at Thrissur on January 30, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said, here on Thursday, his government had done its best to fight Covid-19 and bring relief to the people....

Andhra Pradesh on Thursday reported its highest single day spike in Covid cases with 10,167 persons testing positive, taking the state's tally to 1,30,557, health officials said....

Terming the Union Cabinet's approval of the New Education Policy as historic, its draft committee chairman Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan on Thursday said it (policy) would be a game-changer for India over the next 20 years....

A few hours after being sentenced to jail for four years in a corruption case relating to a defence deal, the Delhi High Court in a major relief to ex-Samata Party President Jaya Jaitly, suspended the sentence awarded to her....
In Bihar the Congress, which is facing allegations of neglecting the backward community within the party, is now engaged in balancing the caste equations....

With the Election Commission on Thursday declaring bypolls for two Rajya Sabha seats -- one in Uttar Pradesh and another in Kerala on August 24 as these were vacant due to recent deaths of two Members, the ruling CPI-M led LDF will take a call on whom to field, said a top leader....