Thiruvananthapuram, Under fire from the principal opposition parties for failing to contain the spike in the number of Covid cases in Kerala, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said on Monday that the state has been doing its best to contain the spread of coronavirus, and is not going after any award for that.

With a

Mumbai,  Maharashtra's Covid-19 tally crossed the 16 lakh mark even as deaths and new cases continued to plummet, health officials said here on Monday,

The state witnessed 125 deaths on Monday -- around 25 per cent compared to the peak of 515 deaths reported on September 15 -- taking the state's death

New Delhi, Aam Aadmi Party leader Raghav Chadha on Monday took to Delhi streets to urge commuters at the busy intersection of Chaudhary Brahm Prakash Chowk, near Rajendra Place Metro Station, to do their bit to make the national capital clean and green.

This was done as part of the government's 'Yuddh, Pra

Bengaluru, In the wake of floods across as many as 10 districts of the north-Karnataka region, Karnataka Health and family welfare minister, K. Sudhakar on Monday directed the state government officials to take immediate steps to contain the spread of communicable diseases in flood-prone areas.

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Srinagar, Former Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah said the fight for the restoration of Article 370 will continue after he was questioned by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for seven hours in Srinagar on Monday.

"They have their job to do, I have mine, there is nothing to be worried about, I am not worried, we

Panaji, Parties at Goa's night clubs should not start right away, but tourism activity should be conducted by maintaining social distancing norms, Chief Minister Pramod Sawant said on Monday.

Sawant's comments came a day after photographs of dance-floors of leading night clubs in Goa packed with party-goer

Kolkata, After the Calcutta High Court on Monday directed all Durga Puja pandals (marquees) in West Bengal to be turned into no-entry zones in the interests of the public, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee held a high-level meeting at the state secretariat Nabanna.

The meeting was attended by the chief secretary, hom

Srinagar,  One terrorist has been killed in an ongoing encounter between militants and security forces in the Melhora area in South Kashmir's Shopian district on Monday, officials said.

The encounter broke out after security forces cordoned off the area and launced a search operation on the basis of a tip

Guwahati/Silchar/Aizawl, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday assured Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal of taking appropriate steps to improve the situation on the inter-state border with Mizoram, the Assam government said.

An Assam government release said that Sonowal had

New Delhi, As India enhanced its infiltration grid at Line of Control, Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) held a meeting with Lashkar-e-Taiba chief Hafiz Saeed and Hizbul Mujahideen head Syed Salahuddin to push militants into Kashmir to carry out unrest in the valley, a top government source said.

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