India

Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Thursday spoke to Prime Minister Narendra Modi over phone seeking his intervention for the postponement of NEET and JEE (Main) exams scheduled next month in vie...

The Left parties have decided to join forces with the Opposition Grand Alliance in Bihar to counter the ruling NDA in the upcoming Assembly elections. The decision came after meetings with Lalu Prasa...

Sitharaman said the Centre, in consultation with the RBI, would provide a special window to the states to borrow Rs 97,000 crore at a “reasonable” rate of interest. This money could be rep...

The Supreme Court on Thursday declined to pass any directive to permit the annual Muharram processions this year across the country, saying it would “create chaos and a ...

 A 48-year-old doctor, who was administered the Oxford Covid-19 candidate vaccine on Wednesday, said he was inspired by immunology greats Louis Pasteur and Edward Jenner to volunteer for the seco...

A man bearing the name of a BJP MLA in Uttar Pradesh can be heard in an audiotape warning a local leader against uttering the word “Thakur” while complaining against alleged molesters and ...

Arvind Kejriwal and the senior leadership of his Aam Aadmi Party have maintained a conspicuous silence on the Supreme Court’s conviction of advocate Prashant Bhushan, a co-founder of the party w...

Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Thursday set up a 10-member group to look after parliamentary work, with five members each from the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha. Although no formal announcement w...

The Congress on Thursday expressed deep anguish over the Narendra Modi government’s attitude of using brute majority in Parliament and the GST Council to arm-twist states into submission over th...

The government has asked central universities to freeze teacher recruitment until "complete lifting" of the lockdown, a move welcomed by JNU teachers who have long been accusing varsity auth...