Highlights | Mumbai reports 1,201 Covid-19 cases, highest since June-end

Mumbai on Thursday reported 1,201 new coronavirus infections, highest since June 30, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said.

Delhi on Thursday registered 1,964 new Covid cases and eight related fatalities, the positivity rate dropped to 9.42%, according to the health department's latest bulletin.

Union minister of road transport and highways Nitin Gadkari called on legendary actor Amitabh Bachchan in Mumbai to seek the veteran actor's support to champion the cause of the National Road Safety Mission in India.

The Maharashtra government has decided to accord adventure sport status to 'Dahi Handi', a popular festival in which a human pyramid is formed to break an earthen pot filled with curd hanging mid-air, Chief Minister Eknath Shinde announced in the Assembly on Thursday.

The Congress' mega rally against price rise at Delhi's Ramlila Maidan is being rescheduled from August 28 to September 4 in view of the Covid-19 pandemic situation, said the party's key spokesperson and Rajya Sabha MP Jairam Ramesh on Thursday.

There will be no coalition. Congress will fight alone in 224 Assembly constituencies and we are confident that we'll form the govt with a thumping majority of over 130+ seats, said Karnataka Congress Chief DK Shivakumar to ANI

Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik today conducted an aerial survey of flood-affected areas of Khurdha, Puri, Cuttack Jagatsinghpur and Kendrapara districts.

Union Minister Anurag Thakur slammed the Arvind Kejriwal-led AAP government on Thursday for distributing "Revdis" to Rohingyas and said why Kejriwal could not agree to detention centres for them. 

“Rohingyas who live here & are illegal migrants are given free water, electricity, ration; now even flats were to be given to them by Delhi govt... they have lied again, distributed 'Revdis'... why could he (CM Kejriwal) not ready detention centers”, Thakur was quoted as saying by news agency ANI.

A 49-year-old Bengaluru-based woman on Thursday withdrew a plea which she had filed in the Delhi high court last week seeking to stop her friend from travelling to Switzerland for active euthanasia on account of his debilitating inflammatory disease. Read more

Three AK 47 rifles were found on the boat. The boat in a half-broken condition came towards Kokan coast due to high tide. Central agencies have been informed. No possibilities of any consequences would be taken lightly: Maharashtra deputy chief minister Devendra Fadnavis told news agency ANI.

Former West Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee and Arpita Mukherjee have been sent to Judicial Custody till August 31 in the SSC Scam case.

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Thursday released its second list of nine candidates for the Gujarat Assembly elections due later this year, PTI reported. 

Restaurants across the country would continue to levy service charge, even as the Delhi high court on Thursday observed that eateries are under a legal obligation to pay their employees but the cost cannot be put on the consumers.

Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia said on Thursday that he had written to Union home minister Amit Shah urging him to clarify the Centre's stand on shifting of Rohingya Muslims to EWS flats in the national capital. Read more

A suspicious boat with weapons and explosives was found in the sea off the Maharashtra coast in Raigad.

Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Ghulam Nabi Azad called on Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar at Vice President's House in Delhi.

Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar on Thursday hit back after one of his party colleagues expressed discontentment over the cabinet expansion carried out earlier this week. Read More

Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot on Thursday said that the matter of giving a job to a family member of the Dalit student - who died last month after he was allegedly thrashed over touching a water pot - is now being fast-tracked. Read More

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Shahnawaz Hussain moves Supreme Court in appeal against Delhi high court ordering FIR against him in alleged rape case.

The Supreme Court on Thursday restrained a committee of administrators (CoA) from taking charge of the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) while ordering a status quo on a Tuesday order of the Delhi high court. Read More

Centre bans 8 YouTube channels - 7 Indian, 1 Pak-based - for spreading 'disinformation' over national security, foreign relations.

In a major drug haul, Gujarat’s anti-terrorist squad (ATS) officials seized 225kg of mephedrone worth ₹1,125crore, during a raid at an under-construction factory near Vadodara city on Tuesday and detained six people in connection with the matter.  Read More

In a shocking incident, the daughter of a vegetable vendor was shot in the neck on Wednesday in Patna near a busy road. The attack took place at the Indrapuri area. The girl is said to be critical and undergoing treatment in a private hospital. Cops suspect that the attack was a fallout of a love affair, news agency ANI reported. Read More

Former Jammu & Kashmir chief minister Ghulam Nabi Azad’s refusal to accept new responsibilities in the state Congress has shocked several central leaders of the party who contended that he was consulted extensively before reorganising the party panels in J&K, and his suggestions were considered by Congress president Sonia Gandhi. Read More