Kolkata,  A group of employees of state-run West Bengal Surface Transport Corporation on Tuesday staged protest at the Sector-V depot after a colleague tested coronavirus positive to demand health safety measures.

Sources said a Transport Department employee was also detected with Covid-like symptoms.

Gurugram, Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari laid foundation stones for 11 road projects on Tuesday.

Sukhbir Singh Sandhu, Chairman of the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), said the 4-lane Gurugram-Mahendergarh road would cost Rs 4,500 crore and would be part of the NH 352W.

Thiruvananthapuram, A record 608 new coronavirus cases were detected in Kerala on Tuesday, taking the state's total such cases to 8,930 and active cases to 4,454, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said.

"Things are serious... in Thiruvananthapuram district itself there were 201 cases on Tuesday , of which 1

New Delhi, The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested the seventh accused linked to the People's Liberation Front of India (PLFI) in a terror funding case registered by the Jharkhand Police in 2016.

Fuleshwar Gope, 44, a resident of Gumla district in Jharkhand, was arrested by the anti-terror agency

Thiruvananthapuram, Several bureaucrats and ministers in Kerala are having sleepless nights as the sensational gold smuggling case is connectes with the terror network. During interrogation of prime accused Swapna Suresh, a former high profile consultant with the Kerala government, her connections with key ministers and bureaucr

Wellington, The number of international arrivals in New Zealand in May 2020 was the lowest for any month since 1959, because of COVID-19-related border and travel restrictions, the country's statistics department Stats NZ said on Tuesday.

There were 5,600 arrivals in May 2020 compared with 4,700 in May 1959, a

Paris, Without the traditional military parade down the famous avenue of the Champs Elysees and public celebration, French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday presided over the Bastille Day ceremony overshadowed by the coronavirus crisis.

For this year's celebration, the military parade, which traditionally a

Kuala Lumpur, July 14 (IANS) Malaysia and Singapore have agreed to mutually ease travel restrictions imposed due to the COVID-19 pandemic and resume some necessary travels between the two countries, the governments said on Tuesday.

The Reciprocal Green Lane (RGL) and Periodic Commuting Arrangement (PCA) are t

Melbourne, A recent spike in the number of COVID-19 cases in the Australian state of Victoria has brought a planned reopening of domestic borders into question, as leaders fear a second wave of infections throughout the country.

Since early June, Victoria has gone from a daily infection rate in the single figures,

New Orleans, A shooting in the US city of New Orleans killed a 10-year-old boy and injured other two teenagers, the media reported.

On Monday, Shaun Ferguson, superintendent from the New Orleans Police Department, told reporters that the 10-year-old boy died from a gunshot wound to the head, reports Xinhua news ag