Breaking news highlights: Telangana reports 62 new Covid cases, 30 recoveries

Telangana on Friday reported 62 new Covid-19 cases, which pushed the caseload to 7,92,253. Thirty more patients recuperated and the total number of recoveries have climbed to 7,87,746.

Sri Lanka's President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has declared a state of emergency from midnight, ANI reported.

Punjab National Bank has increased interest rates on Term Deposits in selected buckets up to 60 basis points w.e.f. May 7.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday described next year’s Telangana’s assembly elections as a ‘direct battle’ between his party and the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS), as he addressed a public rally in Warangal on the first day of a two-day visit to the southern state. Read more

Delhi BJP spokesperson Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga being brought to Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital for medical checkup. The BJP leader was arrested by the Punjab Police earlier in the day from his Janakpuri residence in the national capital over charges of threatening Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal.

Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren slams BJP over ED raids at IAS officer Pooja Singhal's residence. “These are mere threats. BJP trying to deviate from main issues. The state will keep asking for things required from Centre. They've lost their status of being the biggest party in state & are backlashing for it,” he said.

Union home minister Amit Shah met BCCI chief Sourav Ganguly at his residence in Kolkata. He even had dinner with the former cricket captain.

Delhi recorded 1,656 fresh Covid-19 cases, and zero fatality due to the infection on Friday, while the positivity rate stood at 5.39%, according to data shared by the city health department.

Curfew in Jodhpur - which was imposed following incidents of violence in the district - has been extended till May 8, as per an order issued by the District Police Commissioner.

Bhubaneswar: Met department officials in Odisha on Friday said a low pressure area had formed over the South Andaman Sea and adjoining southeast Bay of Bengal this morning and it is likely to turn into a cyclonic storm over east-central Bay of Bengal by Sunday evening and then move north-westwards.

A 40-year-old man was beaten to death allegedly for playing loudspeaker at a temple in Mudarda village of Mehsana in Gujarat, news agency ANI reported.

Three Hizbul Mujahideen terrorists killed in an encounter with the security forces in Jammu & Kashmir’s Anantnag district on Friday. Read more

A fire broke out at Khairane MIDC Industrial Area in Navi Mumbai.

A Delhi court has issued a search warrant to SHO Janakpuri to locate the BJP leader Tajinder Pal Bagga. SHO apprised the court that Bagga's location was traced to Thanesar, Kurukshetra in Haryana, ANI reported.

Day after the World Health Organisation in its report claimed more than 47 lakh lives were lost in India due to Covid-19 pandemic, the Delhi government on Friday issued a rebuttal stating all figures in the national capital are 'authentic and correct'. Read more

Union home minister Amit Shah today called for a CBI investigation into the death of a BJP worker, who was found hanging in Kolkata this morning, hours before his visit to the city, PTI reported.

Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar on Friday said the Centre will take a decision on the implementation of Citizenship Amendment Act across the country, ANI reported. Read more

BJP leader Tajinder Bagga, who was arrested by Punjab Police, was handed over to Delhi Police in Haryana’s Kurukshetra, said party’s Delhi unit.

The Delhi Police have detained a 40-year-old man, accused of molesting two girls in a Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD)-run school in Northeast Delhi's Bhajanpura, news agency ANI reported.

A Delhi Police team arrived at Thanesar police station in Haryana’s Kurukshetra where Delhi BJP leader has been taken, news agency ANI reported.

Maharashtra minister and NCP leader Nawab Malik's judicial custody has been extended till May 20, in a money laundering case, news agency ANI.

No Covid death in the national capital has gone uncounted, Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain said on Friday.