India recorded a single-day rise of 10,929 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday, taking the country's infection tally to 3,43,44,683, while 392 fresh fatalities were recorded in the same 24-hour time period, pushing the total death count to 4,60,265.

A 70-year-old man died after being allegedly beaten for drinking water from a handpump in Bihar's Vaishali on Saturday.

Deputy Director-General Sanjay Kumar Singh, heading the Special Investigation Team (SIT) of Narcotics Control Bureau headquarters, said that a fair and impartial investigation will be done in the six cases taken over by his team from NCB Mumbai

Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Saturday said the Union government should further reduce the excise duty on petrol and diesel.

Stating that the third decade of the 21st Century will be for Uttarakhand, Modi inaugurated development projects worth Rs 225 crore under the first phase.

Former Congress MP Pradeep Majhi joined Odisha's ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) during a programme held here today.

Odisha cadre IPS officer Sanjay Kumar Singh will head the Special Investigation Team (SIT) that is probing drugs case linked to Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan's son Aryan Khan.

Odisha added 208 fresh infections to its list of COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, of which 23 infectees were aged between 0-18 years. The fresh cases reported from 21 district.

13 ventilators to different hospitals in Odisha in Phase-I, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), as part of its CSR initiatives, further donated 10 PB-560 Philips Ventilators to different Government and Private hospitals in the state.

Producer-Director Ghanashyam Mohapatra won the prestigious Jayadev Award as the 31st Odisha State Film Awards-2019 were announced.

At an all-party meeting held here today, political parties urged the State Election Commissioner (SEC) Aditya Prasad Padhi to make the elections alcohol-free.

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government has decided to extend its free ration scheme by six months till May 2022, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Saturday.

Thirty more people have tested positive for Zika virus here, taking the total number of those infected in the district to 66, including 9 IAF personnel, a senior official said on Friday. 

Over 28 million more years of life were lost than expected in 2020 due to Covid-19 pandemic, according to a study published in the BMJ. The scientists came to this conclusion after analyzing the effects of the vector-borne crisis on life expectancy and premature mortality in 2020

Former England skipper Michael Vaughan has been dropped from a BBC show after allegations of racism were levelled against him by two players.

Morinari Watanabe was re-elected to a new three-year term as president of the International Gymnastics Federation on Saturday after seeing off a challenger. Watanabe, from Japan, won the vote 81 to 47 against Farid Gayibov of Azerbaijan at a conference in Turkey, the federation said.

At least eight people have died and scores of others injured in what authorities described as a “mass casualty” incident on the opening night of a popular music festival here in Texas attended by some 50,000 fans of American rapper Travis Scott.

An oil tanker exploded near Sierra Leone’s capital, killing at least 92 people and severely injuring dozens of others after large crowds gathered to collect leaking fuel, officials and witnesses said on Saturday.

All primary schools under East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC) will be opened from Monday adhering to strict Covid-19 protocols, Mayor of East Delhi Shyam Sunder Aggarwal said on Friday. Aggarwal said that all the primary schools, Pratibha Vidyalayas aided and recognised schools will open from Monday.

The BJP will hold its much delayed National Executive meeting on Sunday here. The meeting will begin with the inaugural address by the party president JP Nadda and,  among other things, deliberate the “winning strategy” for the  upcoming Assembly elections in five States, including Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Punjab. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to deliver the concluding address.