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Jammu and Kashmir recorded 10 new coronavirus cases on Sunday, raising the number of people infected with the viral disease to 4,54,109, officials said.

The Ukrainian army said Sunday that Moscow was focusing its main efforts that day on destroying airfield infrastructure in eastern and southern Ukraine, in order to prevent Ukrainian air forces from operating effectively.

A former acting principal of a government girls college in Deoria district of Uttar Pradesh was arrested on Sunday for allegedly indulging in indecent acts with students, police said.

A head constable of the Nagpur Police was arrested by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Sunday for allegedly demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs one lakh, officials said.

Three brothers aged between 6 and 10 years, who had gone to take a bath on the banks of Chambal river, drowned in Rajasthan's Dholpur district on Sunday, police said. The incident occurred in Rajghat village, they said. The trio had gone for a bath on Sunday, when all the three slipped into deep water one after the other and eventually drowned, Kotwali Station House Officer (SHO) Adhyatma Gautam said.

Ladakh reported one fresh Covid case on Sunday that took the infection tally to 28,248, officials said. The number of active cases now stands at two, they said.

The Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) move to raise the policy rate is part of a synchronised action by the central banks, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has said, adding that it came as a surprise only because it was done between two monetary policy reviews.

Dozens of Ukrainians were feared dead on Sunday after a Russian bomb destroyed a school sheltering about 90 people in the basement as Moscow's invading forces kept up their barrage of cities, towns and villages in eastern and southern Ukraine.

Gauhati High Court's Chief Justice, Justice Sudhanshu Dhulia and Gujarat High Court judge, Justice Jamshed B. Pardiwala, who have been elevated to the Supreme Court, will be sworn in by Chief Justice of India N.V. Ramana on Monday.

The body of a 50-yr-old Nigerian national was found naked in the toilet of a building in Vasai, Palghar. On the night of May 3, 6 Nigerians had killed him. Those involved in the murder have now been arrested in Guwahati. Police suspect a failed financial transaction. 

The police have seized over 1,200 kg of silver bricks and ornaments worth Rs 8 crore from Rajasthan's Udaipur district, officials said Sunday.
Acting on a tip-off, a police team intercepted a private bus going to Agra from Ahmedabad on Friday night and recovered silver bricks and ornaments during the search, they said.

Russian forces fired cruise missiles at the southern Ukrainian city of Odesa on Saturday and bombarded a besieged steel mill in Mariupol, hoping to complete their conquest of the port in time for Victory Day celebrations. Officials announced that the last women, children and older adults had been evacuated from the mill, but Ukrainian fighters remained trapped.

Haryana's Rakhigarhi is famous across the world for the Harrapan civilisation. And now, the Archaeological Survey Of India (ASI) is conducting new excavations in and around the 7,000-year-old planned Harappan city in Rakhigarhi which will be completed by the end of May.

The Punjab government on Sunday announced Rs 1 crore ex gratia and a government job for a family member of Subedar Hardeep Singh who died in the line of duty along the LAC in Arunachal Pradesh.

India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Sunday said that the cyclonic storm named 'Asani' is expected to further intensify in the next 24 hours.

Preparations for welcoming Shiv Sena have started in Ayodhya. Aaditya Thackeray will go to Ayodhya on June 10 along with Shiv Sena workers from across the country and will seek blessings there. It's not at all political, it's for our faith: Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut in Mumbai

A woman returning home after shopping for her wedding scheduled next week and four others were killed as a car fell into a deep gorge near Totaghati on the Rishikesh-Badrinath highway early Sunday, police said.

Single day rise of 3,451 new COVID-19 infections, 40 fatalities push India's tally of cases to 4,31,02,194, death toll to 5,24,064

Relatives of the missing in Cuba's capital desperately searched Saturday for victims of an explosion at one of Havana's most luxurious hotels that killed at least 27 people.

Police have arrested a jilted lover, who had allegedly ignited a fire in a three-storey residential building that left seven dead and nine injured here in Madhya Pradesh. 

Imran Khan on Saturday reiterated that he would "never have agreed" to any US demands for military bases in Pakistan in the aftermath of the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan last August.

With the worst of the thick wildfire smoke having blown out of town, residents of this small northern New Mexico city tried to recapture a sense of normalcy Saturday as their rural neighbours hunkered down amid predictions of extreme fire conditions.

The BJP is gearing up for presidential election and has begun reaching out to its allies amid indications that the opposition will field a joint candidate for the post.