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India recorded 184,372 fresh positive cases of novel coronavirus on Wednesday, highest single day number recorded. It makes total infection tally past 13.87 million, according to government data.

Kerala on Monday announced new guidelines to curb the spread of coronavirus in the state. There has been a surge in new diseases in Kerala, with the positivity rate moving to 12.53% on Monday.

In response to Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) leader Anbumani Ramadoss’s claims that educated Dalit youth have lost faith in VCK chief Thol Thirumavalavan, thousands of users on social media showed their support of Thirumavalavan and posted their educational qualifications in an attempt to prove Anbumani wrong.

Russian Vaccine Sputnik V Approved for emergency use in India as the third vaccine licensed in the country after Serum Institute of India's Covishield - developed by Oxford-AstraZeneca - and Bharat Biotech's Covaxin.

"I am really sad and ashamed, I haven't seen this kind of PM who crosses the line while speaking. I have worked for all religions. What have I not done? Now only one thing is left, 'BJP hatao desh bachao'. Left and Congress are BJP agents," Banerjee said.

The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed the Writ Petition filed by former Uttar Pradesh Shia Waqf Board chairman Syed Wasim Rizvi seeking removal of Quran verses.

Farmers protesting the Narendra Modi government's new farm laws are ready to talk if the Centre invites them, Bharatiya Kisan Union leader Rakesh Tikait said on Sunday, maintaining that the talk would resume where it had ended on January 22 and the demands remain unchanged.

Asserting that Saturdays firing by the CISF in Cooch Behar, which claimed four lives, would prove to be a "turning point" in West Bengal assembly elections, Bimal Gurung, the chief of one of the two Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) factions, claimed that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) would face the wrath of voters in the remaining four phases of polling in the northern part of Bengal.

Central government has made several attempts in the last five years to remove around 200-year-old Lal Masjid and take over its adjacent land of graveyard situated at Lodhi road in capital city Delhi despite the land and the mosque come under Waqf properties.

Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray Saturday indicated that the state government would likely impose a longer lockdown of up to 15 days to contain the pandemic, starting Monday, April 12.

A resolution passed by the National Executive Council (NEC) of the Popular Front of India has termed the Varanasi district court order directing the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) to carry out a physical survey of the Gyanvapi Mosque a clear case of abetting the Sangh Parivar assault on the constitutional rights of religious minorities.

Indian National Congress's interim chief Sonia Gandhi on Saturday slammed the centre for vaccine shortage in the country. Gandhi, in a virtual meeting with Chief Ministers of Congress-ruled states, took stock of the COVID-19 situation and preparedness as the country witness surge in coronavirus cases.