Breaking highlights: Tamil Nadu chief minister MK Stalin tests positive for Covid-19

The NIA court in Jaipur sent three accused in the Udaipur tailor murder case, including main accused Mohammad Riyaz Akhtari and Gaus Mohammed, to NIA’s custody and sent four others to judicial custody. Read more

India’s retail inflation marginally eased for the second month in a row to 7.01% in June from a year ago, official data on Tuesday showed, but consumer prices, which rose 7.04% in May, continued to breach the Reserve Bank of India’s upper limit of 6% for the sixth straight month. Read More

One policeman died and two others were injured on Tuesday when terrorists fired upon a naka party in the Lal Bazar area of Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir. The area has been cordoned, police said. Read More

Covid-19 pandemic is 'nowhere near over,' quoted AFP WHO chief as saying.

The Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena will extend its support to Droupadi Murmu, the National Democratic Alliance's (NDA) candidate, for the Presidential election. Read More

Embattled Sri Lanka president Gotabaya Rajapaksa is considering using a naval vessel to flee the island nation, news agency AFP said Tuesday citing official sources. Rajapaksa, 73, had promised to resign and assured a “peaceful transition of power” following widespread protests over the country's worst economic crisis in living memory. Read More

Tamil Nadu chief minister MK Stalin has tested positive for Covid 19. He made the announcement on Twitter.

Congress MP Abhishek Manu Singhvi on Tuesday hit out the ruling BJP government regarding its governance “antics” using the judiciary. Read More

Joint projects and ways to strengthen economic partnership in trade and investment are among the points that will be discussed when leaders of India, Israel, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the United States (US) meet for the first I2U2 Summit on Thursday. Read More

Four men allegedly gang-raped a 16-year-old girl in Chhattisgarh’s Jashpur district when she was on her way to a relative’s place on Saturday, police said on Tuesday.

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Supreme Court extends the interim bail granted to journalist and fact-checker Mohammed Zubair in the hate speech FIR registered against him at Sitapur in UP. Zubair's plea to quash the FIR will be heard next on September 7.

Security beefed up outside the AIADMK office in Chennai where a clash broke out yesterday between the supporters of E Palaniswami and O Paneerselvam, on the sidelines of the party's general council meeting led by E Palaniswami.

Pakistani columnist claims he passed information to ISI from his India visits, reports ANI.

Bomb hurled at RSS office in Payyannur, Kannur district. The incident happened early this morning with window glasses of the building broken in the attack, as per Payyannur police, reported ANI.

Several parts of Navsari in Gujarat inundate increasingly amid a heavy downpour, causing distress to people and animals. 
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“With millions becoming homeless and forced to take shelter in neighboring countries. From beginning of conflict, India has been consistently calling for complete secession of all hostilities and advocated the part of peace, dialogue & diplomac,” says Pratik Mathur, Counsellor, at UNSC.

“We support all efforts to alleviate the sufferings of the people of Ukraine especially encouraging talks between Ukraine and the Russian Federation. We believe that no solution can be arrived at the cost of innocent lives. We continue to reiterate that the global order is anchored on international law, UN charter and respect for territorial integrity and sovereignty of states,” he adds.

“India remains deeply concerned over the situation in Ukraine. The conflict has resulted in loss of lives & countless miseries for its people, particularly for women, children & the elderly,” says Pratik Mathur, Counsellor, at UNSC.

Changing the name of Aurangabad will put a burden of around ₹1000 crores on the (Maharashtra) govt. This is only to change the documents of the government department. Common people have to go through a burden of several thousand crores, says AIMIM MP Imtiaz Jaleel.

The first full-colour image from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope reveals the deepest ever view of the universe to date. It shows galaxies once invisible to us. Read more

Elaborate arrangments have been made for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Tuesday visit to Jharkhand’s Deoghar district, where he is scheduled to inaugurate multiple projects, including an airport, officials said.

Modi will also lay foundation stones for various development initiatives and take part in an 11.5-km-long road show, a senior police officer said, adding that security has been tightened in the district.