Ashutosh Kumar

Contacts of COVID-19 patients, unless identified as high-risk, don't need to be tested, says government

India today reported its first Omicron death in Udaipur, confirmed the centre. The man, Laxminarayan Nagar, was 73 years old.

Activist Sudha Bharadwaj, in jail since 2018, was today granted default bail by the Bombay High Court in the Bhima Koregaon case.

A court order declaring former Mumbai police chief Param Bir Singh "absconding" was pasted outside his Juhu flat in Mumbai.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar refused to be drawn into commenting on actor Kangana Ranaut's provocative comments suggesting that India's Independence in 1947 was a 'bheek' or handout, adding that such statements are to be made fun of and ignored.

A murder case has been filed against Union Minister of State Ajay Kumar Mishra's son for allegedly running a car over protesting farmers in Uttar Pradesh's Lakhimpur Kheri. Opposition leaders have been barred from visiting the area.

Communist Party of India leader Kanhaiya Kumar and independent Gujarat MLA Jignesh Mevani are set to join Congress early next week, sources say the event has been brought forth from the earlier October 2 date.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has penned a heartfelt letter on the first death anniversary of Ram Vilas Paswan, his former cabinet colleague and a powerful Dalit leader from Bihar.

Dismissing a plea challenging the retrospective change in the 2018 appointment order of Sanjay Kumar Mishra as director of the Enforcement Directorate (ED), the Supreme Court today ruled that the officer's tenure should not be further extended.

An MLA of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's party was reported by his fellow passengers on a train journey for walking around in his underwear. JDU MLA Gopal Mandal is seen in his underwear in the AC First Class compartment of Tejas Rajdhani.

India recorded 41,965 fresh Covid cases in the last 24 hours, 35.6 per cent higher than yesterday (30,941), the government data this morning showed. The country also reported 460 Covid deaths today against yesterday's 350 casualties.

Actor Armaan Kohli has been arrested in an alleged drugs case, hours after the Narcotics Control Bureau raided his Mumbai home.

India today logged 37,593 fresh COVID-19 cases, a whopping 47.6 per cent higher than yesterday's figure (25,467). The country also reported 648 deaths, a huge jump from the 354 deaths reported a day before.

Over 87,000 people across the country have been reported Covid positive after the second dose of vaccination, while 46 per cent of those cases are from Kerala, top Health Ministry sources have told NDTV.

India today logged 36,401 fresh coronavirus cases, which is 3.4 per cent higher than yesterday's numbers, taking the total tally of cases to 3,23,22,258. The death count has climbed to 4,33,049 with 530 more fatalities.

Contacts of COVID-19 patients, unless identified as high-risk, don't need to be tested, says government

India today reported its first Omicron death in Udaipur, confirmed the centre. The man, Laxminarayan Nagar, was 73 years old.

Activist Sudha Bharadwaj, in jail since 2018, was today granted default bail by the Bombay High Court in the Bhima Koregaon case.

A court order declaring former Mumbai police chief Param Bir Singh "absconding" was pasted outside his Juhu flat in Mumbai.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar refused to be drawn into commenting on actor Kangana Ranaut's provocative comments suggesting that India's Independence in 1947 was a 'bheek' or handout, adding that such statements are to be made fun of and ignored.

A murder case has been filed against Union Minister of State Ajay Kumar Mishra's son for allegedly running a car over protesting farmers in Uttar Pradesh's Lakhimpur Kheri. Opposition leaders have been barred from visiting the area.

Communist Party of India leader Kanhaiya Kumar and independent Gujarat MLA Jignesh Mevani are set to join Congress early next week, sources say the event has been brought forth from the earlier October 2 date.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has penned a heartfelt letter on the first death anniversary of Ram Vilas Paswan, his former cabinet colleague and a powerful Dalit leader from Bihar.

Dismissing a plea challenging the retrospective change in the 2018 appointment order of Sanjay Kumar Mishra as director of the Enforcement Directorate (ED), the Supreme Court today ruled that the officer's tenure should not be further extended.

An MLA of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's party was reported by his fellow passengers on a train journey for walking around in his underwear. JDU MLA Gopal Mandal is seen in his underwear in the AC First Class compartment of Tejas Rajdhani.

India recorded 41,965 fresh Covid cases in the last 24 hours, 35.6 per cent higher than yesterday (30,941), the government data this morning showed. The country also reported 460 Covid deaths today against yesterday's 350 casualties.

Actor Armaan Kohli has been arrested in an alleged drugs case, hours after the Narcotics Control Bureau raided his Mumbai home.

India today logged 37,593 fresh COVID-19 cases, a whopping 47.6 per cent higher than yesterday's figure (25,467). The country also reported 648 deaths, a huge jump from the 354 deaths reported a day before.

Over 87,000 people across the country have been reported Covid positive after the second dose of vaccination, while 46 per cent of those cases are from Kerala, top Health Ministry sources have told NDTV.

India today logged 36,401 fresh coronavirus cases, which is 3.4 per cent higher than yesterday's numbers, taking the total tally of cases to 3,23,22,258. The death count has climbed to 4,33,049 with 530 more fatalities.