India

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has accorded high priority for ending tuberculosis by 2025.

A case has been registered against Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, and over 200 others, according to the Gautam Buddh Nagar Police.

Many experts also believe that there may be some false starts before an effective vaccine is available.

The case relates to an IED blast followed by indiscriminate firing on April 9, 2019 near Shyamgiri village in Dantewada district in which Mandavi, the then MLA of Dantewada, was killed by the operatives of CPI (Maoist).

The delegation included Derek O'Brien, Dr Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar, Pratima Mondal and Mamata Thakur (former MP).

Khurda district, of which state capital Bhubaneswar is a part, reported the maximum number of new cases at 766, followed by Cuttack at 358 and Mayurbhanj at 156.

The Congress president's remarks came in the form of a video message on a day her party is staging dharnas in every district across the country in favour of farmers and against the three farm laws.

Earlier in the day, President Trump had announced that he and his wife Melania Trump have been tested positive for coronavirus.

Narayanasamy had condemned the police action against Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadras as a clear "exposure of the Jungle Raj and Hitler Raj in UP."

Kerala's COVID-19 tally crossed the grim milestone of two lakh on Thursday as the state reported 8,135 fresh cases, while the death toll climbed to 771 with 29 more fatalities.

There are  9,42,217 active cases of coronavirus infection in the country which comprises 14.74 per cent of the total caseload.

The state now has 11,482 active coronavirus cases, while 72,461 people have been cured of the disease so far.

The family has expressed suspicion that she was killed after sexual assault. However, rape can only be confirmed after the post-mortem report.

Modi in his tributes to Mahatma Gandhi said there is much to learn from his life and thoughts.