Chandigarh, As a preventive step amid pandemic, the Haryana government has imposed prohibitory orders and curfew to stop the arrival of people at the historic Kurukshetra town for the solar eclipse on Sunday, officials said on Saturday.

No programme will be organised at the Brahma Sarovar ghat in Kurukshetra, one

New Delhi, The Indian government and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank on Friday signed an agreement for $750 million loan for Covid-19 response.

The development comes after the AIIB on Wednesday said that it has approved a $750 million loan to India to assist the government in its fight against the coronav

Mumbai, Maharashtra on Friday notched its highest number of Covid-19 cases at 3,827 - outstripping Thursday's 3,752, while Mumbai recorded 114 deaths, the highest on a single day till date.

The state death toll again shot up from Thursday's 100 to 142, but down by 36 from the previous peak of 178 recorded

New Delhi,  At a time when the country is yet to recover from the shock of losing 20 Indian soldiers in a violent clash with the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) troops in Ladakh's Galwan Valley, another shocker has come to light with news coming of a malware hitting the Indian Railways network and snooping it

New Delhi, Two senior Delhi Police officials tested positive for Covid-19, officials said on Friday.

One is a Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) and the other one is of the Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) rank.

According to the police, the report of the DCP testing positive came on Friday. T

Imphal/Shillong/Aizawl, The candidates of the ruling BJP in Manipur, the MNF in Mizoram and Meghalaya Democratic Alliance (MDA) won the single Rajya Sabha seats in each state, elections for which were held on Friday, elections officials said.

Voting was held for three Rajya Sabha seats in Manipur, Meghalaya and Mi

New Delhi, The Old Rajinder Nagar area in central Delhi was on Friday declared as a containment zone after 39 new COovid-19 cases emerged in the area.

Old Rajinder Nagar area has the Sir Ganga Ram Hospital and Karol Bagh Market. Central Delhi's District Magistrate Nidhi Srivastava said the area needs to b

Bengaluru, A senior railway engineer tested Covid positive a day after a station master in the city was found infected with the virus, leading to closure of the divisional railway manager's (DRM) office in the city, an official said on Friday.

"The 46-year-old engineer has been admitted to the state-

Bengaluru, Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa inaugurated new police facilities remotely online on Friday.

"My government is committed to providing infrastructure to the police department," said Yediyurappa as he inaugurated the facilities.

The chief minister said 11,000 police home

Bengaluru, The Karnataka capital recorded 138 Covid cases, highest in a single day, while 337 new cases took the state's tally beyond the 8,000 mark to 8,281, an official said on Friday.

"New cases reported from Thursday 5 p.m. to Friday 5 p.m., 337," said a health official.

Meanwhile,