Melbourne, Australian authorities announced on Tuesday that they will impose a four-week mandatory lockdown in 10 areas of Melbourne following an exponential increase in COVID-19 cases due to fresh outbreaks in the city.

The stay-at-home orders will come into effect at 11.59 p.m. on Wednesday and will remain until

New Delhi, In a major reshuffle by the Centre among its law officers for the Supreme Court, the Appointments Committee of the Union Cabinet has approved the re-appointment of senior advocate Tushar Mehta as Solicitor General for a period of three years. Senior advocate K.K. Venugopal has also been reappointed to the post of Atto

Bhopal, BJP lawmaker Pragya Singh Thakur is back in news and so is interim Congress President Sonia Gandhi's foreign roots.

"Videshi mahila ke garbh se paida hua vyakti rashtra bhakt ho hi nahi sakta (A person born out of the womb of a foreigner can't be a patriot)," Thakur said on Sunday without

New Delhi, The Delhi High Court on Tuesday, while partly allowing the petition filed by environmentalist Vikrant Tongad, extended till August 11 time for giving suggestions and objections to draft Environment Impact Assessment 2020.

A bench of Chief Justice D.N. Patel and Justice Prateek Jalan passed the orde

Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, who has been camping in Delhi for two days with key BJP leaders for consensus on cabinet expansion, returned to Bhopal on Tuesday morning.

Chouhan had met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Delhi on Monday to discuss cabinet expansion in the state, but that

New Delhi, Between 30-40 per cent of deaths from studies in intensive care units from different countries are people with diabetes, said Paul Zimmet, Professor of Diabetes, Monash University, Australia.

Zimmet, who is President International Diabetes Federation, added that the actual mechanism as to why Covid-19 m

Srinagar, Pakistan resorted to unprovoked ceasefire violation on the Line of Control (LoC) on Tuesday in Jammu and Kashmir's Kupwara district.

Army sources said Pakistan initiated unprovoked ceasefire violation along the LoC in Naugam sector of Kupwara district on Tuesday morning.

"They use

New Delhi, Amid the growing demand to boycott Chinese products in the wake of India-China stand-off, former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ambitious programme -- Make in India, saying imports from China after 2014 have actually increased.

"Facts don't li

Lucknow, The Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force (STF) has arrested an imposter from Jharkhand who ran an extortion racket in several states.

The STF said that the accused Ranjan Kumar Mishra, arrested on Monday, has been duping government officials, engineers and project managers in Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, De

New Delhi, Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Tuesday slammed the Uttar Pradesh government over the arrest of party's minority cell chairman Shahnawaz Alam, saying the police action is undemocratic and repressive.

"Congress leaders and activists are committed to raise their voice on publi