A woman allegedly sold her five-day-old baby boy to two siblings from Davanagere for Rs 5,000 on Tuesday in connivance with a hospital employee, according to police.

China has been unnerved by India’s slow but steady improvement in border infrastructure for faster mobility of its troops and weapon systems in forward areas over the last few years. One of the triggers for the ongoing troop confrontations in eastern Ladakh is India’s completion of the 255-km Darbuk-Shyok-Daulat Beg Oldie road last year.

The panel of medical experts advising the Tamil Nadu government on Tuesday pushed for ramping up testing to identify Covid-19 infections in the early stages for effective treatment, warning that, otherwise, Chennai especially could see an explosion of cases. Without more testing, the worst-case scenario projections were of up to 2 lakh cases by June-end in Chennai, with fatalities exceeding 1,400.

Love ke liye kuch bhi karega! While this mad-in-love teenager did not take any unpleasant step, he decided to dress up as a woman and go to meet his girlfriend in Pardi town of Valsad.

The Uttar Pradesh government is formulating a policy under which it can provide low-cost shops and houses to migrant workers who have returned to their native villages from different parts of the country owing to the lockdown. The Yogi Adityanath-led government has also completed skill mapping of 16 lakh workers, a first-of-itskind exercise in UP and perhaps across the country.

The Uttar Pradesh government is formulating a policy under which it can provide low-cost shops and houses to migrant workers who have returned to their native villages from different parts of the country owing to the lockdown. The Yogi Adityanath-led government has also completed skill mapping of 16 lakh workers, a first-of-itskind exercise in UP and perhaps across the country.

With 6,387 new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, India's count of Covid-19 rose to 1,51,767 today, 170 people have also died in the last 24 hours due to the infection. Among all states, Maharashtra has the highest number of Covid-19 cases with 54,758. Stay here for all live updates

Total number of cases in India crossed 1.45 lakh. The country recorded more than 6,000 new Covid-19 cases, and over 4167 deaths. Meanwhile, worldwide coronavirus cases have topped 5.5 million. Stay with TOI for live updates.

Rahul Gandhi’s statement on Tuesday that the Congress was “only supporting” the Maharashtra government and was not “the key decision-maker” and NCP chief Sharad Pawar’s Monday evening meeting with CM Uddhav Thackeray at the latter’s Matoshree residence fuelled the theory that the barely six-months-old Maha Vikas Aghadi regime may be charting its course through troubled political waters.

India’s count of Covid-19 cases was set to cross the 1.5 lakh mark, even as the number of fresh infections reported on Tuesday dropped slightly to its lowest number in the past six days at 5,502 while the deaths related to the virus rose by 172, the second highest single-day toll so far. By late Tuesday night, India had recorded 1,47,758 coronavirus cases.

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has written to Union Railway Minister Piyush Goyal as well as Prime Minister Narendra Modi after trains carrying migrants arrived in the state without any prior...

As super-hot winds continued to pump into the region from the northwest ever since cyclone Amphan hit Bengal, severe heat wave conditions gripped many parts of north India on Tuesday, with Delhi experiencing its hottest day in May in 18 years. North India (along with south-east Pakistan) was the warmest region of the world on Tuesday.

The investigation into the Delhi riots has led to a series of arrests of people protesting against the CAA or Citizenship Amendment Act. Altogether, the police registered 750 cases and arrested over...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday took suo motu cognisance of the plight of migrant workers during the lockdown following constant criticism by activists, activist-lawyers and even retired judges that the court was “insensitive” and had “bowed to the government” by refusing to entertain PILs highlighting the condition of workers who are walking home or are being herded into trucks.

A swarm of desert locusts that infested Jaipur on Monday morning could be headed towards the capital, if wind speed is favourable. Delhi has been kept on alert as such swarms are currently active in Gujarat, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, which is the most affected state.