Breaking news highlights: 9 dead, eight missing due to flash floods in Himachal Pradesh

Telangana cabinet on Tuesday decided to provide 50% reservation to local students in residential schools in local constituencies, said chief minister's office, reported ANI.

Rajasthan health minister Raghu Sharma said that 11 cases of the Kappa Covid-19 variant have been detected in the state, reports ANI.

Newly appointed Prime Minister of Nepal Sher Bahadur Deuba formed a five-member cabinet. The Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre) is onboard to support Deuba, reports ANI.

Vegetable market located at P2 Block in Sultanpuri, Delhi, has been closed with immediate effect till July 16, for grossly violating Covid-19 norms, reports ANI.

After a brief delay, Sher Bahadur Deuba takes oath as the Prime Minister of Nepal. The ceremony was earlier delayed after Deuba demanded the President to revise the notice of his appointment.

Uttarakhand government cancelled the Kanwar Yatra this year due to the Covid-19 pandemic, reports ANI.

Punjab Congress in-charge Harish Rawat, after meeting with Rahul Gandhi, said that the party unit in the state would receive "good news" in the next three or four days, reports ANI.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi to visit Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh on July 15 to inaugurate and lay the foundation stone of multiple development projects, reports ANI.

Union health minister Mansukh Mandaviya saysNEET postgraduate exam to be conducted on September 11.

"We have decided to conduct #NEET Postgraduate exam on 11th September, 2021. My best wishes to young medical aspirants!" he tweeted.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi interacted with the Indian athletes ahead of the Tokyo Olympics. Anurag Thakur, the Union sports and youth affairs minister , minister of state Nisith Pramanik and law minister Kiren Rijiju were also part of the interaction.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will meet with the chief ministers of Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Odisha, Maharashtra and Kerala via video conferencing at 11am on July 16 to discuss the Covid-19 situation, reports ANI.

Nepal's caretaker Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli resigned following the country's supreme court order.

The death toll from a catastrophic blaze that erupted at a coronavirus hospital ward in southern Iraq the previous day rose to 58 on Tuesday, Iraqi medical officials said.

Serum Institute of India (SII) will commence production of Sputnik V in September. Some other manufactures are also ready to produce this vaccine in India: Kirill Dmitriev, CEO, Russian Direct Investment Fund.

2 new Zika virus cases found in Kerala, state-wide infection tally reaches 21

France fines Google 500 million euros over news copyright row, reports AFP.

The number of Covid-19 cases is rising. We need to take strict action to curb the situation at the micro level. We need to keep an eye on Covid variants, experts are studying them. We need to encourage people to follow Covid-19 appropriate behaviour: PM Modi.

PM Modi reviews Covid-19 situation in North-East with CMs of eight states from region through video conferencing.

Southwest Monsoon covers entire country after delay of five days: IMD.

The long-awaited monsoon showers in Delhi brought with it inevitable annual traffic snarls and waterlogging in several parts of the city and many commuters struggled to drive past roads with ill-equipped drainage systems.

More than 39.46 crore (39,46,94,020) vaccine doses have been provided to the States/UTs so far, through all sources and a further 12,00,000 doses are in the pipeline, informed the Union Health Ministry on Tuesday.

Congress General Secretary and Uttar Pradesh Incharge Priyanka Gandhi Vadra to visit Lucknow on July 16.

Former India cricketer Yashpal Sharma dies due to cardiac arrest: Family sources, reports PTI.

Delhi HC directs activist Saket Gokhale to immediately remove all tweets defaming Lakshmi Puri and all the connected tweets arising out of it.