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A 37-year-old salesman in Delhi allegedly killed his wife, dumped the body in a drain and told police that she went missing, officials said on Tuesday.

Senior Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Tuesday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, seeking deployment of more Army personnel to restore normalcy in cyclone-hit Kolkata and other parts of West Bengal.

Huge swarms of desert locusts are destroying crops across western and central India, prompting authorities Tuesday to step up their response to the country's worst plague in nearly three decades.

Nokia last week suspended operations at a telecoms gear manufacturing plant in Tamil Nadu, the company said on Tuesday, after some employees tested positive for COVID-19.

The government should come clean on the face-off with China in Ladakh and be more transparent, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday said. Mr Gandhi said he would not like to comment further till he understood the facts.

A 50-year-old Air India employee, who was among the eleven people on board a Delhi-Ludhiana flight on Monday, has tested positive for coronavirus.

Vignesh KM and Anjali Ranjith - a couple from Kerala - had been planning their wedding for over a year when the coronavirus-induced lockdown upended their big day's plan.

Normalcy has returned to major parts of West Bengal and government officials are working round the clock to put all districts hit by "Amphan" back on track, a top official said on Tuesday, six days after the extremely severe cyclonic storm tore through the state, decimating houses, uprooting trees and snapping power cables.

A red-colour coded weather alert has been issued for Assam and Meghalaya from May 26-28, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Tuesday, predicting very heavy rainfall in these two northeastern states.

The Supreme Court has asked the Centre to "treat with urgency" the issue raised in the pleas challenging Home Ministry's March 29 notification asking private establishments to pay full wages to workers during the COVID-19 lockdown, saying lot of people are affected by it.

A total of 832 flights carrying 58,318 passengers operated on Monday, said Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Tuesday, revising his earlier figures.

The government is in the process of finalising a bill to establish an all-India judicial service to recruit officers for subordinate courts through an entrance test. Those who clear the pan-India test would be appointed by high courts and the state governments.

Indian researchers have not found any major side-effects of hydroxychloroquine or HCQ and its use should be continued in preventive treatment for COVID-19, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) said on Tuesday.

President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that Russia has passed its peak of coronavirus infections and ordered a World War II victory parade postponed by the pandemic to be held next month.

A Hyderabad-bound AirAsia flight carrying 70 passengers developed a technical problem mid-air and had to carry out an emergency landing with the engine of the plane shut.