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For the second time in the span of 10 days after the US elections, there's a Covid gamechanger on the horizon with US pharma giant Moderna announcing on Monday that its vaccine has shown 94.5 per cent efficacy in preliminary data from the company's ongoing study. ....

Preparations have begun for the construction of the new parliament building. The boundary wall of the Parliament House has been barricaded. In order to prevent dust and pollution during the construction work, nets are being installed. ....

Delhi witnessed significantly lower number of coronavirus tests in the last 24 hours, with the latest government figures recording 3,797 new cases and pushing the national capital's total tally to 4,89,202. ....

After Kapil Sibal's attack on the party high command over the Bihar election results, several Congress leaders have rushed to defend the party and the leadership, with many criticising Sibal for going public. ....

Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati's father, Prabhu Dayal, passed away in Delhi on Thursday. He was 95. ....

Jitan Ram Manjhi, president of Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM), was on Thursday appointed pro-tem speaker of Bihar legislative assembly. ....

Goa's lifeguard agency issued an advisory on Thursday, after over 90 cases of jellyfish stings were reported along the state's beaches, which forced lifeguards to administer first-aid to beachgoers over the last two days. ....

Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot on Friday gave a strong statement on 'love-jihad' and said that it is a term manufactured by the BJP to divide the nation. "Marriage is a matter of personal liberty and bringing a law to curb it is completely unconstitutional," he tweeted on Friday. ....

Intensifying vigil in markets and public places, the Delhi Police issued 1,306 challans on Saturday for not wearing masks taking the total figure of challans to 5,01,328. ....

For the second day in a row, the number of recovered Covid-19 patients outnumbered new cases in the national capital on Saturday, though fatalities remained a worry. ....