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Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) president, Shehbaz Sharif. (AFP)

Delhi hopes for better ties with Shehbaz Sharif

Mr Khan's successor will be elected at a special session of the National Assembly that has been called at 2 pm on Monday

11 April 2022 7:10 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Joe Biden (PTI file image)

Modi, Biden to hold virtual summit today ahead of 2+2

Defence minister Rajnath Singh and external affairs minister Dr S. Jaishankar have left for the US for the meeting

11 April 2022 7:04 AM IST

A security personnel stands guard after a grenade blast hurled by militants at Hari Singh High Street, in Srinagar, Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2022. (PTI/S. Irfan)(

Encounter in Srinagar, terrorist killed

Inspector General of Police Kashmir, Vijay Kumar said the slain ultra was involved in the attack on the CRPF in Maisuma...

10 April 2022 1:01 PM IST

A heathworker administers a booster dose of COVID-19 vaccine to a woman, in Noida, Saturday, April 9, 2022. (PTI Photo)

COVID-19: India records 1,054 fresh cases, 29 more deaths

The number of active cases of the infection has further declined to 11,132, according to the ministry's data updated at...

10 April 2022 11:01 AM IST

BJP National President JP Nadda, Union Minister Anurag Thakur and Himachal Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur during a roadshow in Shimla, Saturday, April 9, 2022. (PTI Photo)

Nadda blows poll bugle, AAP Himachal Pradesh chief, two others join...

Assembly elections in the state are scheduled by the year end

10 April 2022 8:44 AM IST

A health worker administers COVID-19 vaccine to a woman at a residential area in Ahmedabad, India, Saturday. (Photo: AP)

COVID-19 vaccine price cut to Rs.225 as booster drive begins

Covishield has been cut down from Rs 600 to Rs 225 per dose for private hospitals and Covaxin has been reduced from Rs...

10 April 2022 7:06 AM IST

A health worker checks swab samples collected for RTPCR test to detect COVID-19 at a government hospital in Hyderabad. (Photo: AP)

Gujarat detects its first case of Omicron's sub-variant XE

Infected person tested COVID positive last month, but report on XE sub-variant received only yesterday

9 April 2022 1:11 PM IST

A medic administers a dose of Covid-19 vaccine to a beneficiary at Nair Hospital, in Mumbai, Wednesday, April 06, 2022. First case of new Covid-19 variant called XE has been detected in Mumbai. (PTI)

Paid Covid-19 booster vaccine for all adults at private centres

All those aged 18 or above and have completed nine months after the administration of the second dose, will be eligible...

9 April 2022 7:00 AM IST

Calcutta High Court (ANI)

Birbhum killings: HC orders CBI probe in TMC leader's murder

The high court had earlier ordered a CBI investigation into the killings of the nine people at Bogtui village

8 April 2022 12:44 PM IST

Dr NK Arora, Chairperson of COVID Working Group, National Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ANI)

INSACOG starts sewage water surveillance across 15 states to detect...

The surveillance which is called environmental surveillance was also done during the polio campaign in India

8 April 2022 12:26 PM IST

Outgoing Ministers M Sankara Narayana, Gummanuru Jayaram, Perni Venkatramaiah (Nani), Seediri Appalaraju, Balineni Srinivasa Reddy, Muttamsetti Srinivas, Kodali Sri Venkateswara Rao (Nani) coming out of the Cabinet meeting after resigning their posts at Secretariat on Thursday. (C. Narayanara Rao/DC)

All 24 mantris of AP Cabinet resign, some to reatin berths

According to informed sources, the swearing-in of the 26 new ministers will be held at 11.31 am on April 11

8 April 2022 7:39 AM IST

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh delivers address on National Security as part of late Balramji Das Tandon lecture series, via video conferencing, in New Delhi, Monday, August 30, 2021. (PTI Photo)

Negative list will push India's defence self-reliance: Rajnath

These include sensors, weapons and ammunition, naval utility helicopters, patrol vessels, anti-ship missile and...

8 April 2022 12:59 AM IST