Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Tuesday congratulated Indian-origin economist Abhijit Banerjee on winning the Nobel Prize and hoped the party's minimum income guarantee scheme NYAY which he helped conceptualise will become a reality one day.
A large number of women protesters, including the daughter and the sister of former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah, were detained in Srinagar during protests against ending the state's special status.
Hours after post-paid mobile phone connections were restored in Kashmir Valley on Monday after 72 days, SMS services were stopped as a "precautionary measure", officials said today.
Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar whose snark comments on Sonia Gandhi invited the ire of the Congress party, has again criticised her and the opposition party, three months after its massive defeat in the Lok Sabha polls.
A week after a schoolteacher, his pregnant wife and six-year-old son were hacked to death in their home in Bengal's Murshidabad, the police have arrested a man from his hometown and have virtually ruled out any political connection. The murders were the result of a financial dispute, the police say.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today invited inputs from public for the 58th episode of his monthly radio program "Mann ki Baat", which, coincidentally, is falling on the day of Diwali festival on October 27.
Edited by Richa Taneja | Tuesday October 15, 2019, New Delhi
Karwa Chauth 2019: The fasting of Karwa Chauth or Karak Chaturthi is strict and the women do not even drink water during the period of the fast until they see the moon in the evening.
Armies that are better equipped decide the destiny of mankind, National Security Adviser Ajit Doval said at a meeting of Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) chiefs in Delhi today
The West Bengal government is working for the empowerment of rural women through various self-help groups, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said on Tuesday.
PMC Bank Crisis: An account holder at the Punjab Maharashtra Co-operative (PMC) Bank, who had deposits of over Rs 90 lakh with the troubled bank, died in Mumbai on Monday. He died of a heart attack hours after attending a protest by distressed customers of the bank outside a Mumbai court.
The Bombay High Court on Tuesday refused bail to civil liberties activists - Sudha Bharadwaj, Arun Ferriera and Vernon Gonsalves - arrested for allegedly inciting caste-based violence at Koregaon Bhima in Pune and having links with Maoists.
With its employee unions threatening a day-long hunger strike on Friday over delayed salaries during the festival season, state-run Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) has said that it is hopeful of paying salaries to its 1.76 lakh employees for September before Diwali.
