Mumbai,  In a significant move, the Maharashtra government had slashed by 50 per cent the charges levied by private laboratories for conducting Covid-19 tests, said Health Minister Rajesh Tope, here on Saturday.

It would make the Covid-19 test charges in the state uniform and also the lowest in the count

Thiruvananthapuram, Congress and BJP leaders on Saturday reacted sharply to a new Kerala government order which insists on a Covid negative certificate from all those who are arriving from abroad on chartered flights.

This new order will become applicable from June 20.

Leader of Opposition Rame

Ranchi, The monsoon hit Jharkhand on Saturday as many districts reported rain.

The change in weather has brought relief from humidity and heat to the people across the state. During the day, dark clouds hovered and rain was recorded here and many other districts.

"The southwest monsoon has set

Silchar,  As many as six people, including four children, were killed and two other minors hurt in thunderstorm and lightning in two districts of southern Assam, the police said here on Saturday.

According to the police, five of a family, including four children, were killed when the lightning struck the

Baghdad, The Iraqi Health Ministry recorded 1,095 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of infections to 17,770 in the country.

According to a statement of the ministry on Friday, 39 more people died from the coronavirus during the day, bringing the death toll to 496, while 6,868 patients have recovered

Moscow, Russian President Vladimir Putin has made his first public appearance in weeks of coronavirus lockdown to celebrate the country's national day.

He used the Russia Day holiday to promote a controversial reform of the constitution which could keep him in office until 2036, the BBC reported.

Paris, France will reopen its borders to countries outside the Schengen area from July 1, following the recommendation of the European Commission (EC), the government said on Saturday.

It added that this reopening of borders will be carried out progressively and in a differentiated manner depending on the pre

Ottawa, Systemic racism exists in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), said the forces's Commissioner Brenda Lucki, after she had earlier "struggled" to define the term.

"I did acknowledge that we, like others, have racism in our organization, but I did not say definitively that systemic ra

Beijing, Beijing confirmed six new domestically transmitted COVID-19 cases after the Chinese capital recorded its first domestic infected earlier in the week in almost two months, authorities said on Saturday.

Apart from the two confirmed cases who are both employees of the China Meat Food Research Center in

Washington, Melania Trump used her position as the US First Lady to renegotiate her pre-nuptial agreement with husband, President Donald Trump before she moved into the White House after he was elected to office, a new book has revealed.

"The Art of Her Deal: The Untold Story of Melania Trump" by Washing