India

Kozhikode, Mar 16: Congress veteran P C Chacko on Tuesday joined the NCP ahead of the Kerala Assembly Elections 2021.

New Delhi, Mar 16: P K Sinha, the principal advisor to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has resigned, sources said on Tuesday.

New Delhi was the world's most polluted capital for the third straight year in 2020, according to IQAir, a Swiss group that measures air quality levels based on the concentration of lung-damaging airborne particles known as PM2.5.

New Delhi: More than 30 lakh people were inoculated against COVID-19 on March 15, the highest in a day so far, taking the total number of vaccine doses administered in the country to 3,29,47,432, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated today.

Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan, in a letter to the Uddhav Thackeray-led Maharashtra government, has said the state is "in the beginning of a second wave of Covid-19 pandemic".

More than 400 people from Myanmar, many of them policemen, have crossed into neighbouring India since late February illegally, an Indian police officer said on Monday, as Myanmar security forces seek to crush pro-Aung San Suu Kyi demonstrators after last month's coup.

New Delhi, Mar 16: India recorded 24,492 new Covid-19 cases on Tuesday, taking the country's infection tally to 1,14,09,831, according to Union health ministry data.

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Monday, March 15, said that it has conducted searches at 11 locations in Delhi, Kerala and Karnataka in ISIS module case.

West Bengal Chief Minister and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee on Monday said no conspiracy can stop her from campaigning ahead of the assembly polls in the state and will continue to fight against the BJP.

Mumbai, Mar 15: Assistant police inspector Sachin Waze’s brother Sudharm Waze today filed a habeas corpus petition before Bombay high court, alleging that former’s arrest by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) is illegal.