The Union government has taken the first tangible step towards establishing a central university near Bhagalpur city six years after Prime Minister Narendra Modi had promised one to revive the glory o...

Mamata Banerjee on Thursday wrote another letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi with a plea to drop the move to amend the IAS (Cadre) Rules, 1954, after the Union government inserted another provisio...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday granted two weeks to the Centre and the states to submit data on starvation deaths after the Union government said it had no statistics on such fatalities and placed outda...

Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi registering her “strong reservations” over the proposed amendments to the IAS (Cadre) Rules, 1954, and urged him to roll ba...

The National Tiger Conservation Authority registered 126 tiger deaths in 2021, the highest since such enumeration began a decade ago. The Wildlife Protection Society of India estimates that the figure...

The Supreme Court on Monday issued a notice to the Centre on a PIL challenging a 2019 order by the Union government restricting trade and tourism activities in the northeastern states of Manipur, Assa...

The draft amendment to the Registration of Birth and Death Act has a provision to update the database of births and deaths with other databases, the Ministry of Home Affairs informed the Lok Sabha tod...

The Union law ministry on Saturday confirmed that chief election commissioner Sushil Chandra had expressed displeasure at a ministry letter that appeared to suggest his presence was expected at a gove...

The Union health ministry on Saturday asked district authorities across India to prohibit social gatherings and similar crowd-drawing events if local Covid-19 test positivity and hospital critical car...

The Hemant Soren-led Jharkhand government is likely to handover appointment letters to at least 600 trained school teachers on the state’s 21st Foundation Day, to be celebrated on Monday, highly...