Gandhinagar In view of the worsening situation in the 'Diamond City', Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani, along with Deputy Chief Minister Nitin Patel, will be visiting Surat on Saturday to take stock of the situation there.

Principal Secretary, Health, Jayanti Ravi is already camping in Surat since last

Amaravati, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy on Friday launched the Andhra Pradesh Corporation for Outsourced Services (APCOS) to recruit employees for various government departments in the state.

The establishment of a separate department for this purpose is expected to eliminate contractors an

Jammu, A total of 170 more people tested positive for coronavirus in J&K on Friday, taking the total number of cases in the Union Territory beyond 8,000.

A statement issued by the Information and Public Relations Department said of the new cases, 42 were in the Jammu division and 128 in the Kashmir division, t

Bengaluru, Karnataka's 42,000 Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHA) have surveyed 1.59 crore households as part of vulnerability mapping survey to check on high risk people amid the Covid pandemic, an official said on Friday.

"In a one-time survey to identify households with the elderly, persons with

Bengaluru, Karnataka registered yet another high single day rise of Covid cases at 1,694, with Bengaluru alone accounting for 994 of them, taking the state's tally to 19,710, an official said on Friday.

"New cases reported from Thursday 5 p.m. to Friday 5 p.m., 1,694," said a health official.

Bengaluru, Alarmed over the rising number of Covid-19 cases, a worried Karnataka government is setting up booth-level task forces to contain the virus across the state, Medical Education Minister K. Sudhakar said on Friday.

"Task forces are being set up at the booth level for monitoring and surveillance of Co

New Delhi, In a significant decision, the Lok Sabha Secretariat has said that Parliamentary panel meetings can start, but with members maintaining a distance of 6 feet from each other. This relaxation comes after Unlock 2.0 kicked in on July 1.

"Ministry/Departments appearing before the committee may be advis

New Delhi, As Assam flood continues to ravage the state, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday announced an ex gratia of Rs 2 lakh each to the next of kin of persons who lost their lives in the flood.

"PM @narendramodi has sanctioned ex gratia of Rs 2 lakh each for the next of kin of persons who lost their l

New Delhi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah held a high level meeting on Friday to review preparedness of measures to deal with monsoon and flood situation in major flood-prone river basins in the country. This meeting comes in the wake of Assam experiencing devastating floods that has left 33 dead so far.

While Shah

Mumbai, Maharashtra's Covid-19 cases continued to break records with a new high of 6,364 - up from Thursday's 6,330, and notched 198 deaths for the second time in three days, health officials said here on Friday.

With the latest fatalities, the state death toll climbed up to 8,376 and total cases zoomed to