Breaking: Passengers de-boarded after bomb scare on Patna-Delhi IndiGo flight

West Bengal on Thursday added 2,486 new Covid cases and 3,124 recoveries, which pushed the total cases and recoveries to 20,79,491 and 20,30,436 respectively.  The active cases in the state stand at 27,755. 

Six more patients died due to Covid on Thursday and the toll has climbed to 21,300. 

Bomb scare on a Patna-Delhi bound IndiGo flight. Passengers de-boarded, plane being checked.

President Joe Biden tested positive for Covid-19 on Thursday, underscoring the persistence of the highly contagious virus as new variants challenge the nation's efforts to resume normalcy after two and a half years of pandemic disruptions, AP reported.

An Air India flight from Dubai to Cochin was diverted to Mumbai to pressurisation loss in cabin.

Sri Lanka President Ranil Wickremesinghe will appoint lawmaker Dinesh Gunawardena as the country’s next prime minister, Reuters reported.

The Enforcement Directorate has summoned Congress president Sonia Gandhi for recording her statement on July 25 in connection with a money laundering case linked to the National Herald newspaper.

TMC will abstain in the upcoming vice presidential polls. The question of supporting NDA candidate doesn't even arise. And the way the opposition candidate was decided without proper consultation and deliberation with a party which has 35 MPs in both houses, we have decided to abstain from the voting process," MP Abhishek Banerjee said.

The Lieutenant Governor of Delhi VK Saxena has rejected govt’s plea seeking nod for chief minister Arvind Kejriwal’s Singapore visit on August 1.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday recorded the statement of Congress president Sonia Gandhi for two hours in the National Herald money-laundering case and ended the session for the day on her request as she is recovering from Covid-19, news agency PTI quoted sources as saying. Read more

As the World Health Organization's emergency committee convenes Thursday to consider for the second time within weeks whether to declare monkeypox a global crisis, some scientists say the striking differences between the outbreaks in Africa and in developed countries will complicate any coordinated response, AP reported.

A fire broke out in a bus in Delhi's  Rohini- Sector 7, two fire tenders are at the spot, news agency ANI reported. 

The Supreme Court on Thursday said it will wait on the Varanasi court's decision on a suit by Hindu women in the Gyanvapi mosque case and adjourned the hearing to the first week of October.

Italy Prime Minister Mario Draghi has resigned, reported AFP citing the office of President Sergio Mattarella , after his national unity coalition government crumbled.

"All Congress MPs & CWC Members have courted mass arrest outside our Party HQs in a show of collective solidarity with Congress President Smt. Sonia Gandhi, a target of Vishguru's political vendetta. We are being taken away to a police station in Old Delhi evidently," tweets Jairam Ramesh.

Rajasthan chief minister and senior Congress leader Ashok Gehlot was detained along with other party workers for staging demonstration against Sonia Gandhi's questioning by ED in National Herald case. "It is happening for the first time in the country that they are stopping dharna demonstration...," he says.

Congress leader Sonia Gandhi arrived at ED office for questioning in National Herald money laundering case. She was accompanied by her daughter and party's general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra.

Congress MPs from Parliament head to party headquarters located at 24, Akbar Road, ahead of Sonia Gandhi's appearance before ED in the National Herald case.

In a joint statement, Opposition parties alleged that the Modi government has unleashed a relentless vendetta against political opponents through misuse of investigative agencies by targeting prominent leaders of various parties.

Ranil Wickremesinghe took oath as Sri Lanka President on Thursday morning, a day after he was declared the winner of the presidential elections necessitated by Gotabaya Rajapaksa's resignation.

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has reached her mother and party president Sonia Gandhi's residence, who will be appearing before ED today in the National Herald case.

India reported 21,566 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours - taking the active caseload to nearly 1.50 lakh mark.

NIA on July 20 conducted searches at multiple locations in Tamil Nadu in the case of Narcotics and Arms Trafficking to India and Sri Lanka.

US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) chief says Sri Lanka made 'dumb bets' on heavy China investment, reported AFP.

On behalf of partner economies including India, US State Department on Wednesday (local time) released a Joint Statement of the 2022 Supply Chain Ministerial Forum, focussing on the global challenges.