Security forces on Monday detected an improvised explosive device (IED) in J&K's Pulwama district. Police said an IED was detected in an orchard in Panzgam village of Pulwama district on Monday morning.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has said that the state government cannot release Chief Secretary "at this critical hour". In a letter written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday, Banerjee has requested him to withdraw the order recalling Chief Secretary Alapan Bandyopadhyay.
The Delhi High Court on Monday dismissed a petition seeking to suspend construction work of the Central Vista Avenue project considering the present Covid-19 pandemic situation.
Fugitive diamantaire Mehul Choksi, who had been moved to the government quarantine facility in Dominica, has tested negative for COVID-19. He is now warded at the Imray Wade of the Dominica China Friendship Hospital under heavy police security in a private room. As per media reports, Choksi is only allowed to be visited by his lawyers. 
Maharashtra minister and senior Congress leader Ashok Chavan on Sunday said the Narendra Modi government had failed to handle the COVID-19 pandemic effectively and had overseen the loss of 12. 21 crore jobs. Addressing a virtual press meet on the Modi government completing two years of its second term, and seven overall, Chavan said the Centre had kept all decision-making powers in its hands but was now blaming the state governments after the COVID-19 outbreak spiralled out of control.
Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Monday moved a resolution in the state Assembly expressing solidarity with the people of Lakshadweep who are on a path of protest against the recent actions of the island administrator.
Four children have lost their lives in Bihar's Darbhanga Medical College in the last 24 hours, news agency ANI reported, adding that one among them had tested positive for Covid-19. The three others, however, had tested negative for Covid.Republic Day 2024 : As India's 75th Republic Day Parade kicked off in the national capital, a 30-member band contingent and a marching c...
