Chennai: A man has approached the Madras High Court seeking to trace his 74-year old father who went missing from a government hospital here after testing positive for COVID-19 a month ago.

Surat: Police constable Sunita Yadav who had a confrontation with a minister's son for lockdown violation here which led to his arrest claimed on Wednesday that she had resigned from service. But a senior police official denied it.

Srinagar: A BJP worker who was allegedly kidnapped by unknown people in Baramulla district of Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday morning is back home safe, Union Minister Jitendra Singh said.

Lakhimpur Kheri, Uttar Pradesh: The son of a farmer in a remote Uttar Pradesh village has scored 98.2 per cent in his Class 12 examinations which has paved the way for his admission to a prestigious Ivy League University in the US on full scholarship.

New Delhi: India's COVID-19 recovery rate rose to 63.24 per cent with 20,572 patients recuperating from the disease in 24 hours till Wednesday morning, the highest so far, even as the country saw yet another record daily jump of 29,429 cases, according to Union health ministry data.

Bengaluru: The Karnataka government on Wednesday announced that an incentive of Rs 5,000 would be given to people who have recovered from the coronavirus infection and are willing to donate plasma to help cure other COVID-19 patients

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday congratulated his "young friends" for clearing the class 10 and 12 CBSE board examinations and said those not happy with the outcome should remember that one exam does not define who they are.

New Delhi: The country's first fully indigenously developed vaccine against pneumonia has got approval from the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI), the Union health ministry said on Wednesday.