New Delhi, December 17 (PTI): The Supreme Court in a significant development on Friday stayed the ongoing inquiry by a West Bengal government appointed commission headed by former apex court judge M B Lokur to
New Delhi, December 17 (PTI): The Delhi University's executive council on Friday approved holding of entrance examinations for admissions from next year, officials said.
The executive council (EC) is the
New Delhi, December 17 (PTI): As many as 101 positive cases of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus have been detected across 11 states and union territories so far, the government said on Friday and advised
New Delhi, December 17 (IANS): The Supreme Court on Friday refused to grant any relief to an editor of a Kannada weekly, jailed for a month for publishing defamatory articles against a lawyer, noting that consi
Varanasi, December 17 (PTI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi Friday mooted the idea of publicising a list of cities where a blind eye has been turned to the cleanliness campaign so as to build public pressure on t
Bengaluru/New Delhi, December 17 (PTI): Karnataka Congress MLA K R Ramesh Kumar's "enjoy rape if it is inevitable" remarks caused a furore on Friday, with the BJP, the National Commission for Wome
New Delhi, December 16 (IANS) Due to a 'Western Disturbance', the maximum temperature this Christmas will be colder with light to moderate rain or snowfall over the western Himalayan region, northwest I
Dehradun, December 16 (PTI): Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday accused the BJP government of ignoring the role of then prime minister Indira Gandhi in the 1971 War as India celebrates the 50th anniversar
New Delhi, December 16 (IANS): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday appealed to farmers across India, especially 80 per cent who are small land holding farmers, to adopt natural farming and look for nature-
New Delhi, December 16 (IANS): The Union Cabinet has passed a proposal to increase the minimum legal age for marriage of women from 18 to 21 years. Sources said the government approved the proposal in a meeting
New Delhi, December 16 (PTI): The Centre has told the Delhi High Court that the provisions of the Information Technology Act do not provide for the removal of court orders passed against a person on account of
New Delhi, December 16 (IANS): As a stop-gap arrangement before the appointment of a new Chief of Defence Staff following the demise of General Bipin Rawat, the Centre has placed in an old system and appointed
Noida, December 16 (PTI): The Noida police on Thursday claimed to have arrested five members of a gang involved in impersonating candidates in a Staff Selection Commission (SSC) exam for recruitment in paramili
New Delhi, December 16 (PTI): The Congress on Thursday released its first list of eight candidates for the upcoming assembly elections in Goa, fielding former chief minister Digamber Kamat from the Margao
The meeting comes days after the IMF announced that she is being promoted as its First Deputy Managing Director.
New Delhi, December 16 (PTI): Indian-American Gita Gopinath, the chief economist of the Intern
Hyderabad, December 16 (IANS): The health authorities on Thursday sounded an alert in a residential area in Hyderabad where two cases of Omicron were detected among foreigners.
Teams of health workers along
Lucknow, December 16 (IANS): The Yogi Adityanath government, on Thursday, said in the state Assembly that it had taken all appropriate steps in the Lakhimpur Kheri incident, in keeping with the law, and the Opp
Chennai, Decemebr 16 (IANS): Tamil Nadu has reported its first Omicron case with a 47-year-old male passenger, who had arrived from Nigeria via Doha, testing positive for this Coronavirus variant.
He has bee
Jaipur, December 16 (IANS): Rajasthan witnessed its fourth Covid death in December on Wednesday, while it registered 20 new cases taking the active caseload to 260 in the state.
One of the deceased, identifi
New Delhi, December 16 (IANS): With an aim to promote 'Digital Literacy and Women Entrepreneurship', the BJP has planned to facilitate registration of 7.5 lakh women entrepreneurs and their Self Help Gr