Buck stops with me, won't pass this on to another US prez: Biden

A total of 49,48,05,652 samples tested up to August 15 of which 11,81,212 were tested on August 15, as per Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR).

Tokyo 2020 Olympians will be felicitated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at his residence in Delhi today.

Australian authorities reinstated a night curfew and extended Covid-19 lockdown measures in Melbourne for another two weeks to contain an outbreak of the highly infectious Delta coronavirus variant.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi pays floral tribute on the samadhi of former prime minister late Atal Bihari Vajpayee.

On the occasion of Parsi New Year, President Ram Nath Kovind extended his greetings and said people of the Parsi community have made an immense contribution to several aspects of India's growth and development.

"Unusual activity detected on the Twitter account of Afghan Embassy," say Afghan Embassy Sources on recent tweets which were later deleted, reports ANI.

"I have lost access to Twitter handle of Afghan Embassy India, a friend sent a screenshot of this tweet, (this tweet is hidden from me.) I have tried to log in but can’t access it. Seems it is hacked," tweets Abdulhaq Azad, Press Secretary to Afghan Embassy in India.

West Bengal will celebrate ‘Khela Hobe Divas’ on Monday, as announced by chief minister Mamata Banerjee last month.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrives at 'Atal Samadhi Sthal' on former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee's death anniversary, Home Minister Amit Shah, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and other BJP leaders also represent.

US military secures Kabul airport perimeter: State Department, reports AFP.

The United States has said that it would deploy as many as 6,000 of its troops at the Kabul airport to ensure safe departure of its citizens and those from its friends and allies from Afghanistan which has now been taken over by the Taliban, in a sudden an unprecedented collapse of the elected regime led by President Ashraf Ghani.

Union health minister Mansukh Mandaviya will be visiting Kerala on Monday to review the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) situation in the state, which has been reporting a surge in infections.

US allies urge Taliban to let Afghans leave, warn of 'accountability': Joint statement. 

"The United States joins the international community in affirming that Afghans and international citizens who wish to depart must be allowed to do so," Secretary of State Antony Blinken wrote on Twitter as the State Department released a statement signed by its close allies.

Schools in Andhra Pradesh will open for the 2021-22 academic year on Monday. The decision to reopen schools was taken after a meeting with chief minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy on July 23.

Jagannath Temple in Puri will be opened gradually for the general public from Monday in second phase in adherence to the Covid-19 guidelines, Covid appropriate behaviour, and physical distancing rules.

State-run fuel retailers have kept automobile fuel rates frozen for almost a month in a departure from the policy of aligning petrol and diesel rates daily by tactically using minor gains of falling international oil prices to offset the need for raising pump rates, three people aware of the development said, reports HT

The death toll from a 7.2-magnitude earthquake in Haiti climbed to 1,297 on Sunday, a day after the powerful temblor turned thousands of structures into rubble and set off franctic rescue efforts ahead of a potential deluge from an approaching tropical storm.