India saw 48,648 new coronavirus infections being reported in a day taking the COVID-19 caseload to 80,88,851, while the active cases fell below 6,00,000, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Friday. The national recovery rate crossed 91 per cent.
Slamming the Odisha government for "failing" to manage the COVID-19 situation in the state, Union minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Friday accused the ruling BJD leaders of being "insensitive" to people's plight during the pandemic.
In a display of its growing combat prowess, the Indian Air Force on Friday successfully test-fired an air launched version of the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile from a Sukhoi fighter aircraft in the Bay of Bengal, official sources said.
A key accused and two of his associates were arrested and a minor boy detained in connection with the killing of a 38-year-old man who was found dead in a forest in Baran district last week, police said on Friday.
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh Friday said that a Pakistani minister's admission of his country's involvement in the 2019 Pulwama attack has revealed the truth on the matter and silenced those who had questioned the NDA government's intent on the issue.
The Income Tax Department had detected "undisclosed" income of Rs 75 crore after it raided some contractors and traders at multiple places in the poll-bound Bihar, the CBDT said on Friday.
In a relief to bus operators in Punjab, Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Friday ordered 100 per cent waiver on Motor Vehicle Tax till December 31 for all stage carriage, mini and school buses, while deferring payment of arrears of taxes, without interest and penalty, to March 31, next year.
Citing Pakistani minister's admission that his country was behind the 2019 Pulwama attack, BJP president JP Nadda Friday said Congress leader Rahul Gandhi should apologise to the country for his stand on the dastardly attack.
The Assam Public Service Commission (APSC) has introduced "transgender" category in the application form of the state civil and allied services examination and has received 42 applications in the category, an official said on Friday.
The People's Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD) in Jammu and Kashmir on Friday began the process of widening its consultations with residents in Ladakh, as the alliance asserted that the revocation of articles 370 and 35A by the Centre were unacceptable and vowed to continue the fight to reverse them.
A 15-year-old boy arrested for a petty theft died in a police station on Thursday night in West Bengal's Birbhum district. In its report the police said, hours after his arrest yesterday, he went to the toilet and died by suicide.
Observers have not recommended repolling in any of the 71 seats that went to polls in the first phase of the Bihar assembly elections on October 28, an Election Commission statement said on Friday.
National Conference leader Omar Abdullah on Friday, making a pitch against the revocation of Article 370, said that the "fight is not against the country but against BJP and its ideology".
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today inaugurated 'Ekta Mall', a special store constructed near the Statue of Unity in Gujarat's Kevadiya, where tourists can buy handloom and handicraft products belonging to different states under one roof.
