Bengaluru,  New Covid cases spiked to 571 in a day across Karnataka, while 496 patients recovered, said the state health bulletin on Thursday.

"With 571 new cases registered on Wednesday, the state's Covid tally increased to 9,34,639, including 6,128 active cases, while recoveries rose to 9,34,6

New Delhi, The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) may field Union Minister Babul Supriyo from Bhowanipore against Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee if she contest from there.

Mamata Banerjee, currently representing Bhowanipore, announced that she might contest from Nandigram. A senior BJP leader said that it was discu

New Delhi, The farmers protesting against the three Central laws at Delhi borders are also making strategies for future. They have announced series of Mahapanchayats to be held across the country including poll bound states as one of the strategies to spread awareness about the protest.

Samyukta K

New Delhi,  In the poll-bound state of West Bengal, when Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath lays out the tenets of his party's "cultural nationalism", his thoughts connect with centuries old 'Nath' sect which has its roots in Kamrup (Assam) and Bengal. The 48-year-old Yogi Adityanath, wh

Ballia (Uttar Pradesh),  A primary school principal in Jaidopur has been suspended following the death of a student, who possibly choked on a fruit seed.

The five-year-old girl's family, however, claim that she had died after eating 'khichdi' served at the mid-day meal in the school.

Baghdad,  Four militants of the extremist Islamic State (IS) group were killed on Wednesday in an airstrike in Iraq's eastern province of Diyala, a provincial police source said.

Based on intelligence reports, the Iraqi army's helicopter gunships bombed an IS hideout near the city of Jalawla, som

New Delhi,  Security and intelligence agencies have unearthed a major terror-funding racket pumping funds to the militants in Jammu and Kashmir via Nepal-Bihar-UP route, aAccording to knowledgeable sources.

"We have observed the terror-funding operatives using the services of certain jewellers, shopping mall owners and o

London,  The UK's anti-trust regulator on Thursday said it has opened a probe into Apple App Store policies over complaints from several developers that the tech giant's terms and conditions are unfair and could break competition law.

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) s

Lucknow,  The Lucknow Police have announced a cash reward of Rs 25,000 on absconding mafia don and former Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) MP Dhananjay Singh.

Singh is wanted in the murder of history-sheeter Ajit Singh, who was shot dead on January 6, allegedly at his behest. He has been charge

New Delhi,  Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora on Thursday emphasised on greater coordination amid all enforcement agencies functioning on the ground ahead of elections in four states and one Union Territory from March-end and in April.

He also said that that the special observers w