LIVE News Updates: India reports 36,401 new COVID-19 cases

India reports 36,401 new COVID-19 cases and 39,157 recoveries in the last 24 hrs, as per Health Ministry.

India reports 530 deaths, taking the total death toll due to COVID-19 to 4,33,049: Union Health Ministry

An ICMR study conducted in Chennai has found that the Delta variant has the potential to infect both vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals, but it reduces mortality among the former group

Afghanistan may be governed by a ruling council now that the Taliban has taken over, while the Islamist terrorist movement's supreme leader, Haibatullah Akhundzada, would likely remain in overall charge, Waheedullah Hashimi, who has access to the group's decision-making told Reuters.

Many issues regarding how the Taliban would run Afghanistan have yet to be finalised, Hashimi explained, but Afghanistan would not be a democracy