West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on August 26 urged state governments to reach out to the Supreme Court for the postponement of JEE, NEET exams. "This will be my request to all state governments, let us do it together, let us go to Supreme Court and postpone the exam for the time being until and unless the situation allows students to sit for exam (JEE/NEET)," said Banerjee. Congress interim President Sonia Gandhi interacted with the seven state chief ministers on various national issues. On the other hand, Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare Ashwini Kumar Choubey h

There are 126,417 confirmed cases in Canada. Quebec: 61,945 confirmed (including 5,747 deaths, 54,922 resolved) Ontario: 41,695 confirmed (including 2,802 deaths, 37,863 resolved) Alberta: 13,210 confirmed (including 235 deaths, 11,799 resolved) British Columbia: 5,304 confirmed (including 203 deaths, 4,199 resolved) Saskatchewan: 1,604 confirmed (including 24 deaths, 1,520 resolved) Nova Scotia: 1,081 confirmed (including 65 deaths, 1,011 resolved) Manitoba: 1,043 confirmed (including 13 deaths, 622 resolved) Newfoundland and Labrador: 268 confirmed (including 3 deaths, 265 resolved) New Bru

BC is reporting 62 cases of COVID-19 today and no new deaths. In a joint news release, Health Minister Adrian Dix and provincial health officer Doctor Bonnie Henry say the number of active cases has ticked down slightly from 925 to 896. The number of people who are under active monitoring by public health workers as a result of exposure to known cases has increased by 55 to 2,730. Vancouver Coastal Health has also warned of a possible public exposure to the virus at the Banter Room bar and restaurant between August 20th and 22nd.

US President Donald Trump is urging people to pay attention to local officials and get out of the path of hurricane Laura, which is now a powerful Category 4 storm. There are fears Laura will come ashore with a six-metre storm surge that forecasters say would be deadly and capable of submerging entire towns. Laura is expected to make landfall tonight near the Texas-Louisiana state line with top winds of more than 200-kilometres an hour. Thousands of Gulf Coast residents fled inland from an approaching hurricane deemed "unsurvivable" by forecasters, heeding warnings from leaders in two states

Ontario's police watchdog says there is no evidence that any of the six Toronto police officers in a woman's apartment when she fell to her death committed a crime. 29 year old Regis Korchinski-Paquet fell from a balcony in May. The Special Investigations Unit interviewed all six officers, along with 15 civilian witnesses and received a written statement from Korchinski-Paquet's father. She was on the phone with him at the time.

Police in Antioch, Illinois have arrested a teenager on suspicion of first-degree intentional homicide after two people were shot to death during another night of Black Lives Matter protests in nearby Kenosha, Wisconsin. A man was caught on cellphone video opening fire in the street with a semi-automatic rifle and could be heard saying ``I just killed somebody.'' Video also shows police apparently letting a young man walk past them with a rifle over his shoulder as people yelled for him to be arrested because he had shot people.

A survey from Statistics Canada says that more than one-third of women in the northern territories have been subjected to unwanted sexual behaviour in a public place.Almost as many have had the same experience at work and about a quarter have been targeted online. The survey says the numbers for women are roughly double what they are for men. Almost half the men and women victimized say they have changed their behaviour as a result.Overall, Statistics Canada finds the experience of women in Canada's North is roughly on par with those in the provinces.For both women and men, the survey says the

The BC Wildfire Service says the fire smouldering south of Penticton is now unlikely to spread. The service has reclassified the fire that scorched more than 20 square kilometres on the east side of Skaha Lake as ``held.'' A fire is held when the service believes enough action has been taken with the resources at hand that the fire is not likely to spread under prevailing or forecasted conditions. The majority of residents forced to flee have been allowed to return home and authorities have said they hope to lift the evacuation order for 74 remaining properties soon.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says children must be safe in their classrooms and parents shouldn't be losing sleep over it.This morning he announced his government is providing up to two-billion-dollars in additional funding to help provinces and territories cope with the COVID-19 pandemic.Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says provinces must tell Ottawa how they spent the first half of the money by December if they want to get more.Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was questioned about why Ottawa is stepping up with just days before many kids go back to class.Trudeau responded that the money is mean