An effective vaccine is not likely to be available for the general public before the fall of 2021, according to experts working in the field of vaccine development.

 A local Shiv Sena leader was killed in a midnight attack by a group of motorbike-borne assailants here, police said on Friday.

Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut on Friday condemned the treatment meted out by Uttar Pradesh police to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi when he was on his way to meet Hathras victim's family, and termed it as "gang-rape of democracy".

Today is Gandhi Jayanti. Mahatma Gandhi introduced the values of ‘Rama Rajya’ in administration and brought them to the fore. ‘If a woman is able to walk freely on the streets at midnight without any fear, it means that Rama Rajya has been established’, was Gandhi’s stand. In a mockery of the grand Ram Mandir being constructed in Uttar Pradesh, a Dalit woman has been brutally raped and murdered.

BJP leader Anupam Hazra, who had threatened to hug West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee if he got infected with COVID-19, has tested positive for the disease, health officials said.

Calling Mahatma Gandhi the "biggest sympathiser" of farmers, labourers and the working class, Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Friday expressed confidence that the agitation against three recently enacted "black laws" in the agriculture sector will become successful and the peasants will emerge victorious.

US stock futures and Asian shares fell Friday after President Donald Trump said he and first lady Melania Trump had tested positive for the new coronavirus.