Politics Today

Soon after a meeting between the Karnataka CM BS Yediyurappa and top property developers, the state government has decided to cancel all Shramik Special trains which the railways started running to ferry migrant workers. Read More

Congress president Sonia Gandhi announced that her party will bear the ticket costs of migrants travelling to their destinations. Following this, the ruling BJP government scrambled to neutralize the huge political point the Congress scored. Read More

Thousands of people thronged liquor shops across the country ignoring social distancing norms after the government allowed standalone liquor shops to open after almost a month and half into the coronavirus lockdown. Meanwhile, Covid-19 cases crossed 46,000 in India. Read More

The number of coronavirus infections in the country has crossed 42,000 with 2,806 new cases and the death toll is now approaching 1,400 with 58 new deaths. Meanwhile, the US said there was “enormous evidence” that showed Covid-19 came from a Chinese lab. Read More

India recorded over 2,400 new Covid-19-infected people and 100 new deaths from the disease. Among the dead included Lokpal member Justice Ajay Kumar Tripathi. Read More

India has extended the nationwide lockdown by another 14 days to contain the spread of the coronavirus. Meanwhile, trains carrying stranded migrants, mostly workers, to their homes have started running. Read More

Rishi Kapoor, veteran actor and Bollywood heartthrob, has died at a Mumbai hospital, on Thursday. He was 67. Kapoor was suffering from blood cancer, which was diagnosed in 2018. Read More

The Centre has allowed migrant workers, tourists, students and other people, who are stranded in different parts of the country due to the coronavirus, Covid-19, lockdown, to travel to their respective destinations with certain conditions. Read More

Irrfan Khan, one of India’s best-known and most beloved actors, has died at 53, in Mumbai. He was diagnosed with, neuroendocrine tumour, a rare type of brain cancer in 2018. Read More

For the third day running in India, the number of coronavirus cases in each of the three days has topped the previous day’s number. The death toll in India is now over 1,000. Read More