Breaking: Over 70 million Covid vaccine doses administered in Bihar so far

Fire breaks out at a plastic manufacturing factory in Murbad area of Thane, Maharashtra. Fire tenders have been pressed into action.

A passenger bus skidded off the road in Western Nepal on Sunday, killing at least 12 people and wounding nearly 20, a senior police official told PTI. According to the preliminary investigation conducted by the police, the accident took place due to high speed.

Maharashtra health minister Rajesh Tope said on Sunday that the state government will allocate funds for fire safety audits in all district hospitals, adding a post of 'fire safety officer' has also been proposed in all such hospitals. Read more

Bihar on Sunday reached another milestone in its Covid-19 vaccination drive when the number of doses administered crossed seven-crore mark in its target population of 72.2 million, state’s health minister Mangal Pandey said. Read more

Delhi chief minister and Aam Aadmi Party's (AAP)'s national convener Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday accused Goa chief minister Pramod Sawant of copying the AAP's promises in Goa, which will go into elections next year. Read more

A Jammu and Kashmir police personnel was shot dead by terrorists in Srinagar on Sunday. The cop has been identified as Tauseef Ahmad.

Madhya Pradesh's Covid-19 caseload surged to 792,907 on Sunday after seven new cases were reported. No deaths were reported and the toll remain unchanged at 10,524. The total recoveries, meanwhile, have climbed to 782,283 with 13 patients discharged on Sunday. 

Days after attempts were made to disrupt Friday Namaz in Haryana's Gurugram on October 29, state home minister Anil Vij said on Sunday that people should hold their religious events inside the respective places of worship. Read more

A four day-nationwide door-to-door polio inoculation vaccination campaign will begin in Afghanistan from Monday, to inoculate children below the age of five, the Taliban ruled-government said on Sunday. The vaccination campaign in the war-ravaged country was announced by the United Nations in October. Read more

Andhra Pradesh on Sunday recorded 320 new cases of the coronavirus disease, which pushed the caseload to 2,068,241, according to the state health department's bulletin. Five more patients died while 425 recovered from the viral disease on Sunday. With this, the cumulative count of deaths and recoveries has climbed to 14,397 and 2,050,386 respectively. 

Opposition parties on Sunday condemned the Tripura Police for acting against 102 people over their social media posts on alleged communal violence in the state. These people, which included journalists, rights activists, have been booked under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) along with criminal conspiracy and forgery charges. Read more

Ten more people tested positive for the Zika virus in Uttar Pradesh's Kanpur city on Sunday. With this, the tally in Kanpur has climbed to 89. 

Punjab BJP president Ashwani Sharma said on Sunday that the party will contest on all seats in the upcoming assembly elections in the state.

A fisherman from Palgarh, working on a Diu-based trawler at the Gujarat coast was killed by the Pakistani Navy on Saturday noon, while the captain of the trawler was injured. 

Tamil Nadu chief minister MK Stalin on Sunday announced a two-day rain holiday for schools in Chennai and adjoining districts of Kancheepuram, Thiruvallur and Chengalpattu.

Delhi environment minister Gopal Rai warned that the national capital will again suffocate if stubble burning does not come down. Addressing a press conference on Sunday, Rai cited official data from November 1 till November 6, which revealed that whenever stubble burning increased in neighbouring states such as Punjab, Uttar Pradesh and Haryana, the level of pollution also went up in Delhi. Read more

From November 10, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government in Madhya Pradesh will hold a special mega vaccination drive every Wednesday  in order to achieve 100% vaccination by the end of this year, an official told news agency PTI on Sunday. 

Installing a smoke tower is a colossal waste of public money and a grave mistake. The answer lies in preventing the air from getting polluted. Pollution has killed more people than Covid-19 has: Dr Arvind Kumar, chairman, Institute of Chest Surgery, Medanta

With 6803 fresh Covid-19 infections, Iran's Covid-19 tally rises to 5,980,260. Toll mounts to 127,173 with 120 fresh fatalities.

Bombay high court remands former Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh to Enforcement Directorate custody till November 12.

Toxic foam surfaces on Yamuna river in Delhi's Kalindi Kunj.

Australia's largest city of Sydney will further ease social distancing curbs on Monday, with removal of limits on house guests or outdoor gatherings, among other measures.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrives at Delhi's NDMC Convention Centre to attend BJP's national executive meeting.