Bhubaneswar, Odisha has reported five more deaths related to Covid-19 and 570 positive cases in the last 24 hours, informed the Health Department on Saturday.

While the total positive cases reached 12,526 and the death toll touched 61 mark in the state.

The deaths were reported from Ganjam, Puri, Bh

Hyderabad, Under Strategic Road Development Programme (SRDP) aimed at easing traffic congestion in Hyderabad, foundation stone was laid on Saturday for two steel flyovers to be built at a cost of Rs 426 crore.

Municipal Administration and Urban Development Minister K.T. Rama Rao laid the foundation stone in the pr

Panaji, All inmates of the North Goa district jail will be screened for COVID-19, after a jailor posted in the central prison tested positive for the viral infection, state Health Secretary Nila Mohanan said on Friday.

"Each and every inmate of the jail (located in Colvale village in North Goa) will be checke

New Delhi, With the impending formation of the new national team of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), several leaders are eyeing the vacant four posts in the party's parliamentary board. It is considered a sign of growing stature and becoming politically strong in the organisation.

After the death of senior BJ

Mumbai, For the second time this month, Maharashtra's new Covid-19 cases shot above the 7,000 mark while Mumbai deaths also crossed 7,000, officials said here on Friday.

Maharashtra recorded a sudden spike of 7,862 new Covid cases on Friday, a significant increase from the previous one-day highest count of 7,0

Bengaluru, With 2,313 more people testing positive for coronavirus in Karnataka in the last 24 hours, its overall tally of patients rose to 33,418 on Friday, health officials said.

57 patients died in Karnataka in the last 24 hours, with majority (27) of them from Bengaluru, taking the state's death toll to 54

New Delhi, A junior resident doctor in the Department of Psychiatry at the AIIMS allegedly committed suicide by jumping from the 10th floor of the doctors hostel at about 5 p.m., here on Friday.

"At about 5 p.m., he jumped from the building. He was immediately rushed to the emergency but could not be saved,&q

New Delhi, Amid ongoing tension along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh, Chinese Ambassador to India, H.E. Sun Weidong, on Friday said that India and China should be partner and not rivals.

Weidong released a video message talking about the recent stand-off between the two countries in Galwan regi

New Delhi, The number of containment zones in the national capital stood at 633 on Friday, recording an increase of 175 over two days, according to the Delhi government's daily health bulletin.

On Thursday, the city had 563 containment zones and 458 zones a day prior to that. The number shot up after the city

New Delhi, Interim Congress President Sonia Gandhi has called a meeting of Lok Sabha MPs to discuss issues facing the nation.

Congress sources say the issues which will be deliberated are mainly the Chinese border transgressions and economic situation arising due to Covid-19.

Sonia Gandhi has writte