The tally of coronavirus infection cases in India has reached 24506 after 1429 new patients were confirmed in the past 24 hours. Said by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Saturday morningtide. Out of 24506 cases, 18,668 are still active. The figure of death toll increased to 775 with 57 fatalities in the past 24 hours. The number of improvements has reached 5065, while one coronavirus infection patient had migrated.

Maharashtra remained the worst-hit state where the number of coronavirus cases reached 6817, including 301 deaths - highest in the country.

Vivo's sub-brand - iQoo has finally launched a new smartphone - iQoo Neo 3 in China with flagship-level specifications.

The main highlights of the smartphone are Snapdragon 865 SoC, 5G compatibility, display with 144Hz refresh rate, 48MP triple rear cameras, and much more.

Launched at a starting price of RMB 2698, which is approximately Rs 29000, the company might launch the phone in India soon.

The smartphone will be made available for sale in China via Vivo’s online store as well as selected e-commerce sites. The sale of the smartphone will start on April 29 in China.

Maruti Suzuki India, the country's leading car company has officially discontinued it’s popular selling small car - Alto K10. The hatchback has been expelled from the official Maruti Suzuki website.

It was previously by several publications that the Indo-Japanese carmaker will be discontinuing the Alto K10 from the Indian market. The dealers across the nation cleared the old BS4 list as early as December 2019.

And, Maruti Suzuki did not receive the BS6 update. Also, there is no clarity from the carmaker if it would be relaunch Alto K10 with a BS6 compliant engine in the future.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the presence of Panchayati Raj Minister Narendra Singh Tomar launched two programs to empower the grassroots. He first launched the new portal - e-GramSwaraj app via video conferencing with the Sarpanches on Friday.

The Unified Portal is a new lead of the Ministry of Panchayati Raj which will provide the Gram Panchayats with a single interface to develop and execute their Gram Panchayat Development Plan.

As part of the second program, Prime Minister Modi also launched the Swamitva Scheme at the moment. The scheme provides for a combined property validation solution for rural India.

A complaint has been filed with police against Bollywood actor Kangana Ranaut for allegedly relating to members of a distinct community as a terrorist. In a video released in support of her sister Rangoli Chandel, an official said on Friday.

The police complaint was filed by a lawyer, Ali Kashif Khan Deshmukh, at the suburban Amboli Police Station on Wednesday. The Twitter account of Chandel, who is also the 33- year-old actor's handler, recently got suspended for alleged hate speech.

According to the police complaint, while defending her sister, Kangana Ranaut, in the video, allegedly related to members of a distinct community as "terrorist", the official said.

The United Arab Emirates decided on Thursday to reopen malls, cafes, and restaurants and ease lockdown limitations. Imposed last month to prevent the spread of coronavirus on the season of Ramadan.

The curfew will be from 10 pm to 6 am while malls will be allowed to work for 10 hours daily starting from midday on Friday. The first day of the Muslim fasting month, an official statement cited by the state-run WAM news agency said.

Supermarkets, food outlets, groceries, and pharmacies will be permitted to operate round the clock. But mosques will remain shut during the holy month in the United Arab Emirates, the statement said.

The handsome hunk of Bollywood, Varun Dhawan turns a year older on April 24, 2020. While birthdays are all about partying with friends, some family time and of course a delicious cake. But sorrowfully Dhawan needs to sacrifice on the outing part this year due to the lockdown.

And so, giving fans a flash into his birthday celebrations, the Street Dancer 3D actor shared some stills on his Instagram story and they are sweet and how.

Varun Dhawan was seen posturing with a heart-shaped chocolate cake with candles on it. Going by the pictures the cake looks home-made.

In a shocking expansion, Maharashtra Housing Minister Jitendra Awhad has tested coronavirus positive, reliable sources said here early on Friday.

Awhad, along with a dozen of his family members had been in home quarantine for past 10 days.

Earlier, Jitendra Awhad had tested negative, but the following report on Thursday had come coronavirus positive, alarming the state health authorities.

It's assumed that the Minister may have unknowingly passed on the infection to various persons who are now under treatment.

The senior Nationalist Congress Party leader was admitted to a hospital on Wednesday for further tests.

India's coronavirus pandemic tally on Friday crossed the 23000-mark and hiked at 23077 with 1684 new cases. With 37 deaths in the past 24 hours, the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said. Of these, 17610 are active cases while 4749 individuals have been cured and discharged from the hospitals.

The death toll has mounted to 718 while one person has migrated to another country, according to the data released by the Health Ministry on April 24.

Among the other affected states in the country, the worst-affected was Maharashtra. As coronavirus pandemic situation continued to be grim the state with 14 deaths and a spike of 778 new cases on Thursday.

Google renamed its Hangout service to simply ‘Meet’ and now the company is even adding new features to the re-brand teleconferencing app. These features were announced earlier but it seems Google just started rolling it out globally. These additions will help Google Meet compete with other popular platforms like Zoom.

Google Meet is rolling out four features to the application that they claimed are highly in demand. The new features like titled layout, noise cancellation, low light mode, higher video quality. Seem to aim at taking down the competition and enhance the user experience.