Updates: Delhi reports 980 Covid cases in last 24 hours; positivity rate at 25.98%

The temperature is likely to rise up to 40 degree Celsius in some parts of Telangana in the coming days, informed the Hyderabad Meteorological Centre on Tuesday, ANI reported.

An elderly woman died and her son was seriously injured after a sudden fire broke out at a flat in Delhi's Kirti Nagar area on Monday night, police said, ANI reported.

Punjab Vigilance Department has issued notice to former CM and Congress leader Charanjit Singh Channi to appear before it tomorrow for questioning in a disproportionate assets case, reported ANI.

Delhi Commission for Women has issued recommendations to Delhi Police, Delhi University and Indraprastha College For Women regarding the recent alleged sexual harassment of students at the college's annual festival by men who scaled the boundary wall of the college. 

The Commission has asked the police, DU and the college to submit an Action Taken Report by April 18, ANI reported.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday slammed Bangla-language daily Prothom Alo and described it as "an enemy of the Awami League, democracy, and the people of Bangladesh," reported bdnews24.com. Read more

The Congress has slammed Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar over his remarks that people should leave their "political spectacle" behind while embarking on a foreign visit, saying the Rajya Sabha chairman should be impartial and not always praise the government, PTI reported.

South Korea's antitrust regulator has fined Alphabet Inc's Google 42.1 billion won ($31.88 million) for blocking the release of mobile video games on a competitor's platform, Reuters reported.

The Korea Fair Trade Commission (KFTC) said on Tuesday that Google bolstered its market dominance, and hurt local app market One Store's revenue and value as a platform, by requiring video game makers to exclusively release their titles on Google Play in exchange for providing in-app exposure between June 2016 and April 2018.

Eight Chinese warships were still operating in waters around the island on Tuesday, Taiwan's defence ministry said, a day after Beijing declared an end to its massive war games, AFP reported.

60-year-old man killed, son seriously injured after tractor-trolley rams into motorcycle in UP's Mathura, PTI reported citing the police.

The atmosphere was tense as residents confronted Amsterdam's mayor on a controversial plan to move legal prostitution from the city's historic red light district to a suburban “erotic centre”, AFP reported.

Australia Chief of the Defence Force Angus Campbell on Tuesday described the possible intelligence leak by the United States a "serious" incident and said that the US was engaging with its partners to understand the consequences, Reuters reported

French President Emmanuel Macron begins a state visit to the Netherlands on Tuesday featuring a speech on Europe that will be keenly watched after his controversial remarks on its ties with the US and China, AFP reported.

An earthquake of magnitude 4.3 struck 188 kilometres east southeast of Fayzabad in Afghanistan on Tuesday, the National Centre for Seismology (NCS) informed in a tweet.

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Monday took a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for visiting a church in Delhi on Easter and said it is a good thing if it was done as an "atonement for past deeds" of the Sangh Parivar, ANI reported.

Thick sandstorms will hit Beijing and several provinces through Wednesday, and Chinese forecasters have advised citizens of respiratory dangers and very low visibility while travelling, state media reported.

One million people in England will be offered the chance to drop their cigarettes and pick up a vape under government plans to help people quit smoking, Bloomberg reported.

Papalpreet Singh, a close aide of fugitive Khalistan sympathiser Amritpal Singh, was brought to Amritsar airport in the wee hours of Tuesday, ANI reported.

Russian forces pressed attacks on frontline cities in eastern Ukraine on Monday, while Ukrainian officials played down a report that Kyiv is amending some plans for a counter-offensive because of a leak of classified US documents.

China's military exercises have caused instability in Taiwan and the region and are irresponsible acts for a major country, Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen wrote on Facebook after Beijing ended three days of drills around the island, Reuters reported.

Chinese airlines undertaking the biggest hiring drives in more than three years as travel rebounds are facing a deluge of applicants for cabin crew roles as fresh university graduates turn to the relatively high-paying career in a bleak job market, Reuters reported.

A developer, who had damaged a water supply tunnel while digging a borewell for an IT park in Thane, allegedly diverted three million litres of Mumbai’s potable water every day into a gutter for five months. Read more

US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin held phone talks with his South Korean counterpart on Tuesday and explained about recent media reports on the leak of confidential US documents, South Korea's defence ministry said, reported Reuters.

The four people shot dead in a shooting on Monday in downtown Louisville, Kentucky, were all colleagues of the suspect who gunned them down, and two of them were close friends of Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear, Reuters reported.