Chennai,  The Tamil Nadu Health Department is keen on implementing stringent measures including wearing of masks, social distancing, and increasing the volume of tests, besides massive vaccination drives as 15 districts show fresh spike in Covid-19 cases.

On Thursday, fresh cases reporte

Mirzapur (Uttar Pradesh)  A 40-year-old groom and over ten 'baraatis' have landed up in a jail for trying to marry a 12-year-old girl.

The groom is 40 years old and the police are probing the human trafficking angle in the incident.

The incident took place in the Ghat Bijri village

Kanpur (Uttar Pradesh),  Two more accused in the Bikru massacre case, in which eight police personnel were shot dead last year, have been booked under the National Security Act (NSA).

The action comes a day before the first anniversary of the massacre.

A notice to this effect has been serv

Bengaluru,  Karnataka on Thursday issued fresh special surveillance measures for travellers from Kerala, asking them to produce a negative RT-PCR test report not older than 72 hours or vaccination certificate of at least one dose of Covid vaccine compulsorily.

These fresh guidelines will be applicable to

Panaji,  The state government has taken up the issue of poor internet connectivity with BSNL officials in Goa, a day after students in Valpoi village in North Goa marched to the local BSNL office claiming that their online classes were being hampered due to poor and inconsistent net connectivity.

Goa Hea

Hyderabad,  The Prohibition and Excise department of Telangana busted a drug racket and arrested two peddlers including a Yemen national in Hyderabad on Thursday.

Eight grams of Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA), 17 grams of cocaine, 15 grams of hashish and 73 ecstasy pills were seized during a raid o

Patna,  BJP's Bihar unit is gearing up for Panchayat elections despite the poll date not being announced as yet by the Election Commission.

A virtual meeting of BJP election cell headed by convener Radhika Rama was held in Patna where party workers at the ground level were directed to establish conta

New Delhi,  After disgruntled Punjab Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu met Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and Rahul Gandhi separately on Wednesday, there is a speculation that Priyanka Gandhi has suggested that Sidhu be made Punjab Congress chief, but Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh and some of the other factions in the

Bengaluru,  Karnataka would build a memorial in Bengaluru for doctors who died due to Covid-19 during the pandemic, state Health Minister K. Sudhakar said on Thursday.

"The memorial, to be the first in the country, will be built at the Arogya Soudha in the city housing the health department to comme

Patna,  After Bihar Social Welfare Minister Madan Sahani on Thursday offered to resign, the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) attacked Chief Minister Nitish Kumar over his governance model.

"The double engine government of Nitish Kumar is undergoing a huge internal dispute. The boat of NDA