Maharashtra tops the tally with 232 fatalities, followed by Gujarat at 77, Madhya Pradesh at 76, Delhi at 47, Rajasthan at 25, Telangana at 23 and Andhra Pradesh at 22.
The scene of the blast along the B C Road was sealed off by police and a massive hunt has been launched to nab the grenade thrower, Inspector General of Police, Jammu, M K Sinha said.
With COVID cases declining, Delhi will see further relaxation in lockdown, including reopening of markets and malls and resumption of metro services, from June 7 while Maharashtra will implement a five-level plan to ease curbs based on weekly positivity rate and occupancy of oxygen beds in districts.
'Ek ghante ke andar humare paas 78,000 calls aaye.' '78,000!'
Many in the specialised force feel they are not being treated on par with those in the armed forces. Sahil Makkar reports
With the weather clear at most places across Uttarakhand over the past few days, 64 more bodies were found lying over the ridges in Kedar valley and cremated with necessary rituals, a senior police officer said on Thursday.
According to the health ministry data, Delhi has reported the highest number of confirmed cases at 503.
Seventeen persons were killed and 22 injured when a Delhi-bound public bus from Pithoragarh fell into a deep gorge in Almora district on Saturday afternoon.
Authorities have put almost the entire country under lockdown, banning gathering of people and suspending road, rail and air traffic till March 31.
The Union health ministry officials also said India was at the second stage as there is still no 'hard evidence' to say that there has been community transmission of the fast-spreading coronavirus, remarks which may provide anxious citizens with much needed assurance and hope.
Mr Modi and Mr Shah will need him if they want to win UP again in 2022 and India in 2024. This signals a Yogi Adityanath-sized change in BJP politics, even under Mr Modi, Shekhar Gupta.
The intense cold wave conditions accompanied by snowfall have left 24 people dead in Uttarakhand.
'We need an early warning system in India.'
The bus, which way on its way to Kishtwar from Keshwan, skidded off the road at Sirgwari and rolled down into the gorge around 7:30 am.
Travel companies, seeing massive cancellations, are now advising tourists to visit these destinations in August.
In the wake of the incident, the CRPF has issued a 'high vigil' alert to all its formations in the Kashmir Valley and other places in the state.
A Delhi court on Thursday sent four Uttarakhand policemen, allegedly involved in the July 2009 killing of a 22-year-old MBA student in a staged shootout near Dehradun, to judicial custody till May 9.
A total of 77 deaths were reported since Thursday evening of which 27 fatalities were reported from Maharashtra, 17 from Gujarat, 11 from West Bengal, seven each from Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, three from Delhi, two from Andhra Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh and one from Karnataka.
A resident of Uttarakhand's Badena village, Singh had joined the army in 2016 and is survived by his parents.
An Indo-Tibetan Border Police jawan went on a shooting spree on Friday killing his officer and injuring another security person inside the prestigious Indian Administrative Service academy in Mussoorie, a day after he was punished by the senior.
Kanyal is accused of passing on confidential information to Pakistan's International Services Intelligence for money while he was in Islamabad
Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh police in coordination with forest guards of the Jim Corbett National Park have arrested two key aides of notorious poacher of wild life animal skin Sansar Chand and four others who had been having gala time in the national park for the last few years.
A 27-year-old girl from Mizoram was found dead under mysterious circumstances in south Delhi's Munirka area last night, police said.
Former chief minister Tarun Gogoi demanded a CBI inquiry into the episode
'The government must give up its neo-liberal polices and obsession with GDP growth and shift its ideological centre of gravity leftwards.'
The Union health ministry said West Bengal and Himachal Pradesh reported a casualty each on Monday, taking the total number of deaths to nine in the country due to COVID-19.
Chinook is a heavy lift, tandem rotor helicopter which serves armed forces of 19 countries. It is a multi-role platform and is used for the transport of troops and material among other roles
Suspected Pakistani ISI agent Asad Ali, arrested from Haridwar, allegedly had a string of relationships with local women apparently to win people's confidence to extract information regarding cantonment areas.
A three-member delegation of the party -- Union ministers Venkaiah Naidu, Nirmala Sitharaman and Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi -- met EC officials and submitted their memorandum.
'There is no democracy, and in fact, there is some kind of monarch ruling.' 'They are protecting themselves and they are scared.''
The Delhi police is under the Centre hence they need to explain about the issuance of license in violation of rules, the Rashtriya Janata Dal leader said.
A tweet by the Press Information Bureau said the states which have imposed lockdown in all districts include Chandigarh, Delhi, Goa, Jammu and Kashmir and Nagaland. The other states are: Rajasthan, Uttarakhand, West Bengal, Ladakh, Tripura, Telangana, Chhattisgarh, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Meghalaya, Jharkhand, Bihar, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Haryana, Daman Diu and Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Karnataka and Assam.
Seeking cooperation from the public to fight the pandemic, the Union health ministry officials said there was no need to panic. They also said not everyone needs to wear masks and that following social distancing is more important to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
14 coaches of the Indore-Patna Express was derailed near Pukhraya in Kanpur Dehat district on November 20. The findings showed that it was a "conspiracy".
The Uttarakhand police have launched a search for two companions of Ranbir Singh, the MBA graduate who was killed in an alleged fake encounter, and a key 'eyewitness', who have gone missing since the incident last week.A police team, was sent to Baghpat district in Uttar Pradesh in search of the two youths who were accompanying 22-year-old Ranbir Singh on a motorcycle, when they were stopped by police during checking ahead of the 'encounter'.
Mohan Chandra Pandey, who is himself a retired army officer, said that Pakistan is responsible for the death of his son.
The rate of doubling of COVID-19 cases has increased to 12.6 days
The seizure of liquor has been a matter of concern for the EC since it apprehends that the liquor might be used to influence the voters.
Gandhi said the prime minister continued shooting for a film till even three hours after news of the Pulwama terror strike came in.
Major Suman Gawani, who served as a UN Peacekeeper in South Sudan, is the first Indian to receive the UN Military Gender Advocate of the Year Award. 'On seeing the Indian flag on my uniform,' she says,' the locals would get very excited and say, 'Hindi, Hindi'.'
