Renowned Islamic Scholar and acclaimed Academician Dr. Mohammad Rafat passed away on Saturday morning. He was also member of Markazi Majlis-e-Shoora of Jamaat e Islami Hind and Director of the Center for Study and Research.

New Delhi: India's COVID-19 tally of cases climbed to 1,04,31,639 with 18,222 new cases in a day, while 1,00,56,651 people have recuperated so far pushing the national recovery rate to 96.41 percent on Saturday, according to Union Health Ministry data.

Sydney: A relentless Patrick Cummins and a mean Josh Hazlewood dismissed India for 244 after Cheteshwar Pujara's slowest half-century helped Australia take complete command at tea on the third day of the third Test here on Saturday.

Bengaluru: Dry run, an exercise for end-to-end testing of the COVID-19 vaccination process, was conducted "successfully" in 281 facilities of 31 districts of Karnataka, and the state is ready for the actual vaccination whenever the vaccine arrives, the health department said on Friday.

Bengaluru: Karnataka reported 970 new COVID1cases of COVID-19 and 3 related fatalities, taking the total number of infections to 9,25,868 and the death toll to 12,134, the Health Department said on Friday.

New Delhi: Forest staff in Maharashtra have lathis' to defend themselves while in Karnataka they are seen roaming in Chappals' (slippers), the Supreme Court on Friday said while expressing concern as to how they will protect the law and environment against heavily armed poachers.

Bengaluru: The Congress in Karnataka on Friday alleged that police stations and government offices at several places in the state were functioning like ruling BJP's offices and party workers were being intimidated and threatened to stage protests.

Lucknow: Two Ayodhya residents on Friday moved the Allahabad High Court, challenging a CBI court's ruling that acquitted all 32 accused including BJP veterans L K Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi in the 1992 demolition of Babri mosque.