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Prime Minister Narendra Modi today interacted with those involved in the COVID-19 vaccination drive in Varanasi, his Lok Sabha constituency.

Yak riding at nearly 12,000 feet and minus 20 degrees is one of the key activities at the Khelo India - Zanskar Winter Sports and Youth Festival in Ladakh. Ladakh is one of the most sought after tourist destinations for all who love the mountains. See pics.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said that the medical infrastructure in Varanasi and nearby areas has been transformed in the last six years.

A new Congress president will be elected after five state elections due by May, it was decided at a top party meeting today after an argument between two groups during which Rahul Gandhi said: "Once and for all, finish it and move on."

India has called out Pakistan for co-sponsoring a UN resolution on culture of peace while rights of minorities are "emasculated" in the country, saying Pakistani law enforcement agencies stood as "mute spectators" when a historic Hindu temple was attacked and set on fire by a mob.

Almost a week since it started the "world's largest" vaccination exercise with its home-grown inoculants, India crossed a major milestone of administering jabs to at least 10.5 lakh -- almost a million - beneficiaries, the health ministry said.

The BJP and the ruling Trinamool Congress are engaged in a tussle over the celebration of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's 125th birth anniversary on Saturday. While Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will lead a 6-km march in Kolkata, from Shyambazar in the north to Red Road in the heart of the city, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will preside over the inauguration of the celebrations in Kolkata, where a permanent exhibition on Subhas Chandra Bose at the Victoria Memorial will be opened.

Actor Sonu Sood moved the Supreme Court Friday after the Bombay High Court rejected a petition against a Mumbai civic body notice alleging repeated illegal construction at a building in the city

The Mumbai-based woman who had accused Maharashtra cabinet minister Dhananjay Munde of rape has withdrawn her police complaint, an official said on Friday.

The Calcutta High Court has refused to entertain the plea of a man seeking the right to collect his dead son's frozen sperm, maintaining that the only other person, apart from the deceased, having any right to it is his wife.

West Bengal Forest Minister Rajib Banerjee today resigned from his position. The cabinet minister did not cite any reasons for his decision, but it comes amid a recent string of exits from Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress as the state heads for Assembly elections in March-April.

Congress president Sonia Gandhi today launched a fierce attack on the Centre over the farmers' agitation and said the government has shown "shocking insensitivity and arrogance going through the charade of consultations".

The government has cleared commercial exports of COVID-19 vaccines, with the first consignments to be shipped to Brazil and Morocco on Friday, the foreign secretary told Reuters.

The government's silence over the leaked WhatsApp chats of TV anchor Arnab Goswami on the Balakot strikes is "deafening", Congress president Sonia Gandhi said today, alleging that national security had been "thoroughly compromised".

Nitish Kumar, who has often displayed a short fuse when it comes to criticism on social media, has ordered action against "offensive" posts against his government in Bihar. Bihar's Economic Offences wing, the agency in charge of cybercrimes, has asked all state departments to report any "defamatory, wrong" posts against ministers, MPs, MLAs or officials.