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Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Tuesday said the state government has not received any written direction from the Centre, seeking information on deaths occurring in the national capital due to oxygen shortage during the second wave of the Covid pandemic.....

Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai is in the damage control mode as two cabinet ministers, Anand Singh and M.T.B. Nagaraj, have decided to tender their resignations from their posts, sources in the party said. ....

Skipper Joe Root defied Indian bowlers (48 not out off 75 balls) as England went to stumps at 119/3 on Day 2 of the second Test here at Lord's on Friday. They are still 245 runs adrift of the 364 that India made in their first innings. ....

India on Saturday showed a marginal dip in daily Covid-19 caseload as it recorded 38,667 fresh infections in the last 24 hours while the recovery rate from the SARS-CoV2 virus stood at 97.45 per cent. A total of 478 deaths in the same duration pushed the toll to 4,30,732. ....

In view of the growing threat of Taliban, there has been a significant increase in visa requests to come to India from Afghanistan. Indian government have decided to give visa the Afghan nationals, according to Indian government sources. ....

The Taliban has declared the war in Afghanistan over after its fighters swept the capital Kabul and President Ashraf Ghani fled the country.....

A day after Taliban captured power in Afghanistan, the Congress on Monday described conditions there as "extremely alarming" saying India's strategic interests are at stake. ....

A few hours after former MP and Mahila Congress chief Sushmita Dev resigned from the Congress, she flew to Kolkata and met Trinamool Congress President Abhishek Banerjee at his South Kolkata office on Monday morning. Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha member and national spokesperson Derek O' Brien is with her. ....

All commercial flights from the Hamid Karzai International Airport on Kabul have been cancelled in the wake of Taliban takeover triggering widespread chaos, said a statement of Afghanistan's civil aviation authority released on Monday. ....

At least five people have been killed at the Kabul airport and three stowaways were reported to have fallen to their deaths from an airborne plane as thousands of Afghans are desperately trying to get on flights out of the country amid increasingly chaotic scenes, the Daily Mail reported on Monday.....