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The government on Wednesday said any attempt by China to set up a hydropower station on the Brahmaputra river will act as an encroachment on the entitled rights of lower riparian states like India and Bangladesh and adversely affect the availability of water in its basin during the lean season.

NCP president Sharad Pawar on Wednesday ruled out any action against his party leader and Maharashtra cabinet minister Dhananjay Munde, accused of rape by a Mumbai woman, till charges against him are proved.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today tweeted his congratulations to Joe Biden who just took oath as the 46th President of the United States.

At least three of the four deaths reported among candidates who got their COVID-19 jabs are not because of the coronavirus vaccines, the Health Ministry said today after a 42-year-old healthcare worker died in Telangana.

The Bombay High Court on Wednesday granted a transit pre-arrest bail to "Tandav" director Ali Abbas Zafar, Amazon Prime India head Aparna Purohit, producer Himanshu Mehra and the show's writer Gaurav Solanki, against whom a case has been registered in Lucknow for allegedly hurting religious sentiments through the web series.

A couple and their five-year-old son died in Haryana's Faridabad due to suspected carbon monoxide poisoning after they went to sleep in a room kept warm by burning coal.

Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar on Wednesday said his party intends to fight the 2022 Goa Legislative Assembly elections in alliance with the Congress and other like-minded parties.

Newly-inducted BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari today took the responsibility for ensuring his party's victory from Bengal's Nandigram in the upcoming state Assembly elections. He said he has the support of over 2 lakh people who chanted "Jai Shri Ram".

The Himachal Pradesh Police has installed high-quality automatic number plate reader (ANPR) cameras in the Atal Tunnel in Rohtang following nuisance by some tourists in the underpass.

A 46-year old lottery vendor in Kerala's Kollam has won Rs 12 crore jackpot with an unsold ticket in the state government's Christmas-New Year bumper issue.

The iconic Mahatma Gandhi statue at parliament has been temporarily moved to make way for construction of the new Parliament building.

At least two scenes were removed from the controversial web series "Tandav", which found itself in more trouble on Wednesday with fresh FIRs against its makers and cast in Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra.

Delhi's air quality recorded a marginal improvement on Wednesday, moving to the ''poor'' category from ''severe'' the day before, due to a favourable wind speed, India Meteorological Department (IMD) officials said.

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Wednesday alleged that customs officials tried to intimidate and threaten government officials when they appeared before the agency in connection with the gold smuggling case.

The 2018 judgment upholding the validity of the giant national ID scheme Aadhaar need not be reviewed, the Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday, dismissing petitions which challenged the order on grounds that the government had pushed the programme bypassing a vote in the Rajya Sabha.