The Election Commission is yet to take a call on the polls, presumably in view of the nationwide coronavirus lockdown.

The former UP chief minister had gone to the Hospital for routine checkup, but the doctors admitted him for monitoring his health over some stomach and urine-related issues.

Sixteen migrant workers sleeping on rail tracks while returning to Madhya Pradesh were crushed to death by a goods train in Aurangabad district on Friday.

After a cabinet meeting on Friday, MP minister for Home and Health Narottam Mishra said no work was done when Nath was in power and "whatever funds were received were diverted to Chhindwara (the CM’s home town)".

Union home minister Amit Shah said not allowing trains to reach West Bengal is 'injustice' to the migrant workers from the state.

The BJP leaders waged a social media war against the Bengal government by accusing the state of hiding Covid-19 figures and also complaining the Centre that TMC-led government in Bengal has completely failed in handling the coronavirus crisis.

The JDU, headed by Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, accused the AAP of resorting to "cheap politics to gain popularity" as the Arvind Kejriwal government has sought reimbursement of the payment.

Tamil Nadu is now facing one of the worst droughts in over a hundred years, and Balachander saw this coming and worsening nearly four decades ago.

There is really not much of a story in Sindhubaadh and if there are twists and turns, these form a bizarre, unbelievable script.

Shylock was the name of the main antagonist in William Shakespeare's play The Merchant of Venice. However, it is not clear whether Mammootty's character is inspired by the play.

Ahead of the trailer launch, the makers of Saaho have revealed the look of Mandira Bedi's character Kalki in the film.

Manju Warrier was shooting in Himachal Pradesh when they got stuck 100 kms away from Manali due to heavy rain and landslides.

A Bengaluru based artist has claimed that the makers of Saaho have copied design ideas from her installation for the Burning Man Festival in 2014 for a setting in the song Baby Won't You Tell Me.

In just three days, Saaho reportedly dethroned Mahesh Babu's Maharshi to become the top-grossing title of 2019 in Telugu cinema.

Vijay Deverakonda's next Telugu film is called World Famous Lover and will have four actresses in lead roles.

While the film is yet to be cleared by the censor board, we have learnt that the makers are trying their best for its smooth release.

The star of the celebration was Yash and Radhika’s eight-month old daughter, Ayra, who was born on December 2 last year.

After much wait and anticipation, Tamil star Vijay's Bigil released on Friday. It is a sports action film written and directed by Atlee and has Nayanthara as the female lead, while AR Rahman has scored the music.

A jury is not a body out to seek vengeance or play tit-for-tat. It appears hardly plausible that the jury would have deliberately avoided some movies.

In Trichy, members of Rajini Makkal Mandram have erected a massive cut-out with Rajinikanth as the CM.

Singer and Bigg Boss Telugu Season 3 winner Rahul Sipligunj tried to intervene when a group of people were passing comments on his female friend in a pub.

The poster of the film was shared by the actors and makers on social media, which announced that the movie will hit the screens on October 23, 2020.

In an interview, Gautham Menon not only confirmed this news but also revealed that he has been a fanboy of Kamal Hassan.

“As I watch the numbers, it’s like OK, are we going to make it back by the end of May?" Egert asked. "Is it going to be the first of June? Is it going to be mid-June?”

Scientists said the structural makeup of SARS-CoV-2 suggests that it will behave differently in aqueous environments, compared to other viruses typically found in the intestine.

The Knesset or Parliament voted by 71 votes to 37 to back the power-sharing deal between Netanyahu's Likud and his main rival former military chief Benny Gantz's Blue and White parties.

Overall, infections spreading from New York account for 60 to 65 per cent of the sequenced viruses across the country.

The drug developer had previously said it expected mid-stage trials to begin in the current quarter, with the aim to start late-stage studies in the fall.

Attorney Douglas Wigdor is well known for his work on prominent cases related to sexual harassment and assault. He represented six women who accused Harvey Weinstein, the disgraced Hollywood producer, of sexual misconduct.

Croatia's Defense Ministry says an air force training plane crashed in the southwest of the country, killing two crew members.

Hydroxychloroquine did not lower the risk of dying or needing a breathing tube in a comparison that involved nearly 1,400 patients treated at Columbia University in New York, researchers reported Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Controversial Pakistani cleric Mufti Abdul Qavi made the comments in an interview with an online portal when he was asked to respond to some fatwa allegedly issued by clerics in Saudi Arabia that beverages containing 40 per cent alcohol or less are halal (permissible).

On May 8, 1980, representatives of all World Health Organization (WHO) member states gathered in Geneva and officially declared that the smallpox-causing variola virus had been relegated to the history books, two centuries after the discovery of a vaccine.

The spacecraft -- which was launched Tuesday -- arrived safely at a predetermined site, the China Manned Space Agency said, after a hitch in an earlier part of the key test.

Senator Manka Dhingra is an Indian-American attorney and the first Sikh elected to any state legislature in the United States.

China has dismissed as groundless U.S. and Australian questioning of how it had handled the coronavirus pandemic, saying it had been open and transparent, despite growing scepticism about the accuracy of its official death toll.

WHO food safety and animal diseases expert Peter Ben Embarek said live animal markets are critical to providing food and livelihoods for millions of people globally and authorities should focus on improving them rather than outlawing them.

US is currently weighing punitive actions against China over its early handling of the global health emergency.

Italy's total death toll from COVID-19 since its outbreak came to light on February 21 now stands at 30,201. Only the United States and Britain have seen more deaths from the virus.

The WHO said reducing the risk of disease transmission from animals to humans in these often overcrowded markets could be addressed in many cases by improving hygiene and food safety standards, including separating live animals from humans.

Her message was filmed at Windsor Castle, where she and her husband Prince Philip have been staying since the coronavirus outbreak began.

The pandemic wave, similarly, will be with us for the foreseeable future before it diminishes. But depending on the location and the policies in place, it will exhibit variegated dimensions and dynamics traveling through time and space.

Both national and local governments have stopped crews from disembarking in order to prevent new cases of Covid-19 in their territories, stranding thousands of crew members.

When asked for an explanation of the US move, a State Department official said that China had "repeatedly blocked compromises that would have allowed the Council to move forward."

The first phase of easing lockdown began as the government announced removing restrictions by allowing more business to open and operate from dawn to 5pm.

Russia's coronavirus taskforce said that 104 people had died overnight, bringing the national death toll to 1,827.

Ileana took to her social media on Wednesday and posted a picture of clad in a two-piece bikini while lying causally on a hammock.

Breast milk, the first vaccine, provides baby with essential nutrients, antibodies and factors that protect against infection.

Earlier, Beyonce Knowles highlighted the deadly impact of the coronavirus pandemic on African American communities during her stint in 'One World: Together at Home' virtual concert.