India

Uttar Pradesh's Gautam Buddh Nagar recorded 120 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday that pushed the district's infection tally to 12,373, official data showed. The number of active cases stood at 1,637, down from 1,723 on Friday,according to the data release...

The ruling Communist Party of China has suspended a senior official in Tibet for corruption and divulging state secrets, according to the official media. Wang Jinhe, 55, a former party member and deputy director of Tibet's transport authority, has been s...

The three farm reform bills that await the President's assent after being passed by the Parliament are anti-farmer and corporate friendly, Chhattisgarh minister T S Singh Deo said here on Saturday. If these bills become law, they are bound to facilitate...

Two women were brutally murdered by unidentified assailants in a suspected case of previous enmity in this district on Saturday, police said. The incident happened at Marukalkurichi village in the district.

Two criminals, one of them carrying a reward of Rs 25,000 on his head, have been arrested after a police encounter which also left the miscreants and two personnel injured, police said Saturday. They said the exchange of fire took place Friday night i...

A body representing owners of marriage palaces and resorts on Saturday demanded from the Punjab government that they be allowed to operate with coronavirus norms in place. The body also threatened to resort to an agitation if the permission was not...

Earlier in the day, Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain, while interacting with reporters, said that Sisodia's condition "is stable and he is doing fine".

A bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice G S Kulkarni asked the civic body how it expected these staff members to report to work in the absence of such travel arrangements.

In December 2019, the Lok Sabha had unanimously passed a Constitution amendment bill to extend reservation to SCs and STs in the lower house and state assemblies by another 10years even though the benefit was not extended to the Anglo-Indian community.

India’s economy changed forever in 1991 when Manmohan Singh introduced economic reforms — moving towards liberalisation and ending ‘license raj’.

Manmohan Singh, who headed the UPA coalition government between 2004 and 2014, turned 88 on Saturday.

The trials started after the institute received safety approval pending from the Data Safety and Monitoring Board (DSMB) for the first 100 candidates selected to undergo the trials last week. The trails have been delayed by more than two weeks.

Accusing the Democratic leadership of being a "mute spectator" to the "growing Hinduphobia" within the party, including against its own Hindu elected representatives, an American advocacy group warned on Friday that if left unchecked, this influential rel...

A 40-year-old man's body was found on Friday in Greater Noida with injury marks on the face apparently caused due to some unknown chemical, police said. The body was found near a filling station in Jarcha area of the district in the morning by locals w...

India has offered a Line of Credit worth USD 100 million to Sri Lanka for three solar projects in the country, according to an official statement here. India's High Commissioner to Sri Lanka Gopal Baglay called on Minister of Power Dullas Alahapperuma a...

A Sub Divisional Magistrate (SDM) sat on a dharna outside the residence of the District Magistrate's (DM) here on Friday as he was allegedly miffed over an unfavourable inquiry report. "SDM Vineet Upadhyay sat on a dharna... he has made some allegations...