In India, 4 deaths have been reported due to Corona in the last 24 hours, two in Maharashtra and 1 each in Delhi and Kerala. According to the Health Department, 113 people have died due to Corona since January 2025. The highest number of deaths have occurred in Kerala and Maharashtra. A total of 13 deaths have also occurred in Delhi. There are 6,483 active cases of Corona in 32 states and union territories of the country. So far 42 patients of Corona have been found in Punjab.

Voting for the by-election in Punjab's Ludhiana West constituency will be held tomorrow, i.e. on June 19. This seat fell vacant after Aam Aadmi Party MLA Gurpreet Gogi died of gunshot wounds at his house on January 14. Rajya Sabha member Sanjeev Arora is in the fray from Aam Aadmi Party, there are speculations that Kejriwal can become the candidate from the Rajya Sabha seat that will fall vacant if Arora wins the election. At present, Kejriwal is neither an MP nor an MLA, he lost his seat in the Delhi elections. Congress candidate Bharat Bhushan Ashu has been a two-time MLA from Ludhiana W

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney met Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the sidelines of the G-7 summit today. During the discussion, both countries decided to appoint new High Commissioners. Along with this, regular diplomatic services will be restored for citizens of both countries. Canada expelled six Indian diplomats and consular officials last fall. This decision was taken after law enforcement reported that Indian government agents were involved in a targeted campaign against Canadian citizens. Chinmoy Naik is currently serving as the Acting High Commissioner of India to Canada.

Former Punjab cabinet minister Sikander Singh Maluka has rejoined the Shiromani Akali Dal. He has returned to the party exactly a year after being removed from the post of the head of the disciplinary committee of the Shiromani Akali Dal. President Sukhbir Singh Badal made him join the party. It is worth noting that his daughter-in-law Parampal Kaur Sidhu, a former IAS officer, had contested the Lok Sabha elections from Bathinda as a BJP candidate against Harsimrat Kaur Badal last year but had to face defeat. However, when asked if other members of his family are also expected to join the

The family of a dentist from Mississauga, Ont., says she is the Canadian citizen believed to be on an Air India flight that crashed shortly after takeoff on Thursday. The husband of Nirali Sureshkumar Patel confirmed she was among the 240 passengers on the London-bound flight. Patel's dental clinic referred The Canadian Press to the husband, who said that he was in the process of booking travel to India for himself and the couple's one-year-old child. He declined to provide his full name and said he wasn't in a state to speak further. The plane crashed in a residential area of India's northwes

On the Air India plane crash, Indian Home Minister Amit Shah said that there were a total of 230 passengers and 12 crew members on board the plane. Out of these, 1 passenger survived and they have come to meet him. He said that the death toll will be officially released only after DNA testing and identification of the passengers. The government said that the work of recovering the bodies of all the passengers from the wreckage has been almost completed and those whose families are abroad have been informed. According to the government, there was one and a half lakh litres of jet fuel in the

Former Gujarat Chief Minister and BJP's Punjab affairs in-charge Vijay Rupani has died in an Air India plane crash. He was 68. India's Jal Shakti Minister and Gujarat BJP president CR Patil gave this information on Thursday evening. Air India said that the plane had just taken off from the runway for London's Gatwick Airport when it crashed in a residential area near the airport. According to reports, Rupani was going to London to meet his daughter. The bodies of several people killed in the crash were found badly charred. Among the passengers was a newlywed named Khushboo Rajpurohit who w

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney expressed grief over the Air India crash. The Prime Minister said that it was very sad to learn about the crash of the Air India flight from Ahmedabad to London, in which 242 passengers, including a Canadian, were on board. PM Carney expressed his condolences to the families of all the victims of the plane crash. From Prime Minister Narendra Modi to British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Australian PM Anthony Albanese, all world leaders have also expressed grief over the accident. In Ahmedabad, Air India's Boeing 787 Dreamliner crashed into the fourth bu

An Air India passenger plane bound for London with more than 240 people on board including one Canadian crashed Thursday in India’s northwestern city of Ahmedabad, the airline said. Visuals on local television channels showed smoke billowing from the crash site in what appeared to be a populated area near the airport in Ahmedabad, a city with a population of more than 5 million. Firefighters doused the smoking wreckage of the plane, which would have been fully loaded with fuel shortly after takeoff, and an adjacent multi-story building with water. Charred bodies lay on the ground. “The sce