The UN health agency on Wednesday cautioned it was "way too early" to say whether COVID-19 might have peaked or when it might end, following a drop in new cases.

China's Hubei province, the epicentre of the deadly coronavirus, has reported a record 242 new fatalities and nearly 15,000 fresh cases in a single day, local health officials announced on Thursday, the fastest rise in the daily count since the virus outbreak was first identified in December.

The Madhya Pradesh High Court on Wednesday imposed a cost of Rs one lakh on the state government for not filing the district magistrate's affidavit along with its reply in response to a notice over detention of to a man from Seoni under the National Security Act (NSA).

Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad moved the Supreme Court on Wednesday seeking its intervention on a plea which wanted removal of protestors from Shaheen Bagh here, claiming that the petition is "collusive" and the administration has "deliberately blocked" roads connecting Delhi to Noida and Faridabad.

Teachers and students of Nagaland University on Wednesday staged anti-CAA demonstration at its four campuses in Kohima, Dimapur and Zunheboto districts of the state.

The coronavirus outbreak in China has led to rare open calls for freedom of speech in the Communist nation amid growing public discontent over the handling of the epidemic, as the death toll continued to climb which prompted the government on Wednesday to announce fresh restrictions in top cities.

A court here on Wednesday sentenced a 24-year-old to life imprisonment for raping and impregnating a minor Dalit girl of a village in Hansi sub-division of Hisar district in 2017.

Tumkur: Three students who left their hostel for school on Wednesday morning died after drowning in a lake when they reportedly went for swimming in the afternoon. The incident was reported from Gubbikere Taluk in Tumkur District,